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Tulsi Gabbard opens up that she’s infertile
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:08 pm
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Tulsi Gabbard is opening up about her fertility challenges.
The former Hawaii congresswoman, 43, discussed her struggles over the years to conceive a child with husband Abraham Williams on Meghan McCain’s Citizen McCain podcast, and shared that she had even undergone several in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures.
“[IVF is] a very difficult experience no matter what happens,” Gabbard said, before detailing the process which begins with hormone shots that help stimulate the ovaries to produce more eggs for egg retrieval and then transferring the embryo into her body.
“You go through all of this and then you schedule the first transfer. And then you have the waiting until you can take that first pregnancy test, and feeling hopeful and, like, ‘Oh, I got this gut feeling, like, I can't wait to be a mom and all of it,’ “ she said before breaking down in tears.
The politician said her first pregnancy test came back negative, so she opted to go through the procedure again and again. Each time, she would get the same results, which took a toll on her mentally.
“You go through this and then and it's like, ‘Okay, hopefully, this is the day we get going for the test.’ And then it comes back negative and trying to remain hopeful,” she recalled.
Gabbard said her doctor eventually told her that she is “one of the women” whose official diagnosis is “unexplained infertility.” She added that the news was a tough one to swallow “because, you know, if at least something is diagnosed, [you’re like], 'Okay, maybe I can do something about this.' But the whole unexplained infertility thing was difficult.”
As hard as this was for me, it was extremely hard for Abraham to just watch this, heartbreak over and over again," she added.
She said she and her husband decided to halt IVF procedures in order for her to run for president in 2020, which came “at a cost.”
She was unable to restart the IVF process again for some time because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and her deployment to East Africa as part of a joint special operations task force. She said when she came back at the end of 2021, she went through “a few rounds” of the IVF process, until they got to the “final two procedures.”
“Abraham and I had a long conversation, and we agreed beforehand that, you know, if this didn't work, then I wasn't, we weren't going to go through this again,” Gabbard recalled, telling listeners that she stayed with McCain and her husband Ben Domenech at the time to go to doctor's appointments in Washington, D.C.
"When that last transfer took place, we had no more frozen embryos," she said. "I went for the blood test and got the results back and, and got the call from the doctor here in D.C. saying, you know, 'I'm sorry. The results are negative.' "
Yeah, I actually always wondered why Tulsi wasn’t a mother since she seems like she’d make the best one out of every member of Congress. But hopefully she makes this country a better place with her service.
Also another potential lost life to Covid, so great job to the assholes of 2020/2021.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:09 pm to OMLandshark
So, spray but don't have to pray?
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Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:11 pm to OMLandshark
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She said she and her husband decided to halt IVF procedures in order for her to run for president in 2020...
Wouldn't that make her 39 yo at the time?
Fertility does have a definitive time-frame. Frankly, it appears she waited too long to get busy.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:11 pm to OMLandshark
This is like the inverse of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" but with loads of indifference.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:12 pm to Liberator
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Wouldn't that make her 39 yo at the time?
Fertility does have a definitive time-frame. Frankly, it appears she waited too long to get busy.
Probably, but I’m not shy about adding more lost lives on what happened in 2020 and 2021 over our reaction to Covid and not Covid itself.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:13 pm to OMLandshark
Growing up and even as a teenager and young adult, I had no idea infertility was so common. Once my wife and I began trying and our peer group was at that age, it shocked me to find out how many of our friends and peer group dealt with infertility and miscarriages.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:13 pm to OMLandshark
I’d like a shot to knock her up.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:14 pm to OMLandshark
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I’m not shy about
Right. You have no reservations about completely making shite up to further your fake agenda.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:17 pm to Liberator
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Wouldn't that make her 39 yo at the time?
Fertility does have a definitive time-frame. Frankly, it appears she waited too long to get busy.
Yeah I dont want to pile on because that is a tough thing to deal with but Butker was right.
Feminism tells a lie of you can have your cake and eat it too. Yeah you dont have to get pregnant at 18 but if you wait till 39 to start because you wanted to focus on your career its not going to be as easy as when you were 29.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:17 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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You have no reservations about completely making shite up to further your fake agenda.
No my agenda is true. Had they just given everyone Ivermectin, HCQ, monoclonal antibodies, and keep the sick away from the non-sick, then almost no one would have died from Covid, Trump’s projections to open back up by Easter would have happened, and the world is a much better place.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:17 pm to boosiebadazz
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was so common
This is why someone coined "silver lining" long ago.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:19 pm to udtiger
quote:but yeah for the most part.
So, spray but don't have to pray?
IVF sucks, we went through it and had the same thing happen. Our Dr told us after the first time it wasn't going to work though, and that we would be wasting money. Egg donor was the only option for us and I'm sure a lot of other people too if they are being honest with them selves
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:19 pm to OMLandshark
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I’m not shy about adding more lost lives on what happened in 2020 and 2021 over our reaction to Covid and not Covid itself.
I hear ya, brutha.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:19 pm to OMLandshark
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But hopefully she makes this country a better place with her service.
And how would she do that?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:20 pm to OMLandshark
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No my agenda is true.
Maybe, but you just pulled this "example" right out of your arse.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:20 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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You have no reservations about completely making shite up to further your fake agenda.
And pray tell -- exactly what "agenda" might that be, Swami?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:20 pm to BugAC
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And how would she do that?
I’m thinking VP, but I don’t think anyone on this board would have a problem with her becoming the Secretary of State, Defense, or put in John Bolton’s old position.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:20 pm to OMLandshark
it was probably military vaccinations that got her. They are killing the fertility of men in the service, too.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 1:22 pm to Adam Banks
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Feminism tells a lie of you can have your cake and eat it too.
Yeah you dont have to get pregnant at 18 but if you wait till 39 to start because you wanted to focus on your career its not going to be as easy as when you were 29.
Exactamundo
It's a tough thing...but most times nature and its schedule can't be hacked.
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