{"podcast":{"title":"The Egg Whisperer Show","slug":"the-egg-whisperer-show-441792","podcast_index_feed_id":441792,"rss_url":"https://theeggwhisperer.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://draimee.org/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/b/8/1/5b8152aca571b8d216c3140a3186d450/egg_whisperer_show_cover2025-20250623-f9lrtudc9t.jpg","author":"Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh","episode_count":1699,"summary":"In 2017, Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh started her weekly Egg Whisperer Show as a way of promoting fertility awareness. Her goal is to give people answers to questions and topics that aren't easily found elsewhere on the internet. Delivered with a healthy dose of Dr. Aimee's signature wit and sweet kindness, she manages to simplify the complex. Information is easy and accessible to all with Dr. Aimee's help.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T04:17:25.200457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-egg-whisperer-show-441792"},"episode":{"title":"Held Together: Infertility, Loss, and the Stories That Carry Us with Dr. Rebecca N. Thompson","slug":"held-together-infertility-loss-and-the-stories-that-carry-us-with-dr-rebecca-n-thompson","published_at":"2026-06-03T15:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-egg-whisperer-show-441792/held-together-infertility-loss-and-the-stories-that-carry-us-with-dr-rebecca-n-thompson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-egg-whisperer-show-441792","url":"https://draimee.org/held-together-infertility-loss-and-the-stories-that-carry-us-with-guest-dr-rebecca-n-thompson","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theeggwhisperer/s14ep242_EWS_RebeccaNThompson.mp3?dest-id=535783","summary":"In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Rebecca N. Thompson: a family medicine and public health physician specializing in women's and children's health, and the author of Held Together, a deeply personal and collaborative memoir that weaves her own fertility and pregnancy complications with the stories of 21 other women navigating infertility, loss, and complex paths to building families. Becca brings a rare dual perspective to this conversation: she has lived this journey as both a physician and a patient, surviving life-threatening pregnancy complications even as she was training to care for others. Together, we explore the raw and often unspoken emotional terrain of the fertility journey, including the shame, isolation, and identity shifts that so many of my patients experience. We talk about how storytelling and community can be profoundly healing, why healers need healing too, and how grief and hope can coexist on the path to building the family you dream of, even when that path looks nothing like you planned. In this episode, we cover: How Dr. Thompson's own string of pregnancy losses shaped her both as a patient and as a physician Why sharing personal stories about infertility and loss is one of the most powerful antidotes to shame and isolation How grief and hope can coexist, and why Held Together is ultimately an empowering book The way infertility reshapes identity, and how women can reclaim a sense of power and agency during reproductive challenges What it means to \"heal the healer\" How non-traditional paths to parenthood (adoption, surrogacy, fostering, and more) expand and redefine what family truly means Practical guidance on finding support: from therapy and journaling to community groups and simply knowing when it's okay to sit with uncertainty Resources:…","meta_description":"In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Rebecca N. Thompson: a family medicine and public health physician specializing in women's and children's health, and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1815,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-egg-whisperer-show-441792/episodes/held-together-infertility-loss-and-the-stories-that-carry-us-with-dr-rebecca-n-thompson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-egg-whisperer-show-441792/held-together-infertility-loss-and-the-stories-that-carry-us-with-dr-rebecca-n-thompson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}