EGGS ON ICE! Britt shares her egg-freezing story

us have actually had a break. We had a break, but Matt and Laura are obviously doing the batterycaps, which I'm super proud of because you guys are loving them. But I'm also not gonna lie. There is some like teeny little smitch of jealousy that maybe he's taking my spot. I don't know how to feel. He's already got you as his wife, like he needs to share a lot. We have been gone for four weeks now, but we really haven't been gone at all. It doesn't feel like

we've been far away. Although we've missed you. There's so much that has been happening. I mean, we've been gone for so long that the Olympics came back around. We also turn to it's been four years. The Olympics is back. Okay, hang on, how many times have you cried in the Olympics, Because I've cried probably four times already. Do you know what? This is the most controversial thing I'm going to say, and I know that everybody listening is going to kind

of check out now. I haven't watched it. I have barely watched it. I have watched more Bachelor than I have watched the Olympics, which I think I'm the only person in Australia according to the Bachelor ratings. But I don't think this is something you should be admitting to on this podcast. Man, I've seen some things over the past four weeks. There's a lot going on in Sydney right now, is there? So what's okay? Talk me through it? What have you guys been doing? How have you been

in lockdown? I don't want to talk about lockdown for too long, to be honest, because I mean, one, I'm very conscious that no matter what I say, everybody who's from Victoria has done it ten times worse and ten times longer than what we've done it so far. But it just comes with its own challenges and Britt while you're overseas. I genuinely feel like I am hogged tight in a basement of Sydney, like just let me out, why not? But like it's totally and in relation to

what you just said. It's funny that. I mean, you and I have spoken about this on the podcast before, and it's a funny comment where you say, like, I know this person has it worse or they've done it worse, so I don't want to comment. But each individual is

still allowed to feel their pain, their relative pain. You know, it's what you go through, and every single person, whether they've being locked down for one week or six months, everyone's experiencing something, so like, don't take away from the fact that you haven't done it as much as Melbourne or anything like that. I think everyone, each in their own is going through so much shit in Australia right now.

I absolutely, one hundred percent agree with that sentiment, and I think it is so important for every single person who's listening that if you feel a certain way, those feelings are valid and you are absolutely allowed to be sad or angry or hurt or whatever it is. And I don't think it is a helpful argument or a helpful conversation for people, or for anyone to say, Oh, but you know what, I can't be sad because somebody else has it worse. It doesn't take anything away from

somebody else you feeling those feelings as well. I guess the biggest thing about this lockdown in Sydney is that it feels quite different to last time. Last time, and this is probably another controversial thing to say, but for me, it kind of still felt a little bit novel like, even though businesses were shut and my business was shut, Even though we were hugely affected, it was an experience that nobody had had before and there was a lot of fears surrounding it, but it also kind of felt

like a little bit of a novelty. You know, we were making TikTok videos this time around. The novelty has well and truly fucking worn off, like it is all. We are over it and we are tired, and trying to do it with two kids in the house is a whole other experience. So yeah, next time, hopefully we don't have three kids in the house. Oh my god. Well,

I mean that's up to you. You have control over that, Laura, So don't be like, oh, I hope the universe doesn't give some other baby you have control over how much sex you have. Mate, I have fallen from that still. You have told me you have had serious sex before and then out popped another baby, So I'm onto you. But anyway, tell me what has been happening in your world,

and tell everyone who's listening. I mean this might come as some surprise to some of you listeners, but Britain and I haven't spoken that much over this break because she's kind of been in all different places. Wi Fi connections haven't been great. But we normally don't go a single day without speaking to each other, and we have gone several days without speaking to each other. It's funny

you say that. I mean everything this said is true, but I feel like we actually still speak to each other every day, but it's always We're on different time zones and it's always work. I was like, we haven't actually caught up as friends, and I feel like we had a little group FaceTime the other day producer Geisha, Laura and myself, and I don't know about you, Laura, but I forgot how nice it was just to sit there and talk and have a laugh for a second.

Because it's so easy to get swept up. But how am I? I am? Well, I have been watching so much fucking tennis. I'm like, oh you do. I didn't realize that it was like seven days a week. So I am in Atlanta, America right now, and it's really nice to be in America because they're free here and they just, to be honest, they act COVID is not a thing. It's bonkers. It's so weird to see that Australia is in complete lockdown and Americans are just running wild.

But it does mean that we don't have our bubbles anymore. So Jordan and I have actually been able to go to a few dinners because I feel like we never really got those dinner dates or anything like that. Even when we met in Australia, it was always in this lockdown time. So talk to me about why it's different there. And like, obviously, going back a couple of months ago, the whole COVID situation in the States was pretty fucking rife.

So not that I want to sit on COVID for too long, but why is it different now and why are they treating it differently to what we are experiencing since the Delta strain basically came from there. They've just done such a good job here with the vaccination. So I'll tell you a story that was just blew my mind. I have friends back home that have been and, as you all know, people trying to get the vaccinations and it's impossible. They didn't order them places that do have vaccinations.

It's so hard to even get a booking. That's what it's been like. It's been so bloody hard. Here myself and Jordan and one of Jordan's friends, another tennis player, and he literally just decided. He was like, I want to go get the COVID vacks. Like cool, how do we do that? He's like, oh, we'll just go to the chemist. We just stopped in the car. Wasn't planned. This is five minutes later. We stopped at the first chemist. We walked in. He is an Australian, was like, I

would like to get the COVID vaccination. They were like, cool, just take a seat, gave him the vaccination. Fifteen minutes we're out the door, and I was like, this is why America is ahead of the game with the vaccinations, because it's accessible and they're encouraging people to get it. They're making it easy for people to get the vaccination, and I mean anyone can walk in and get it whenever they want, and they're very encouraging of it. So let's hope Australia can jump on that bandwagon. So I

have a question for you, which is Jordan related. What noise does Jordan make when he's playing tennis? And is it the same as the noise he makes when you guys are having sex to hang on, did someone write this scene or is this your sick question? No, this is my sick question. I was watching tennis recently and I was like, God, these men just sound like they're having sex. And I'm really curious now how Jordan sounds. Okay, So the grunting in tennis is actually a thing between players.

They all talk about the noises that each other make. It's a thing because some people don't like other people that make noises. Some people say that people's noises are too loud. It's like political noise in tennis is this huge thing. Jordan doesn't make a lot of noise in tennis. Every now and again, if he has some big exertion, he'll go like that. That's it. Probably similar to sex. Yeah, whenever he has a big exertion. Now, look, Jordan's what

I will say. Jordan's not overly noisy, man. He's also going to kill me this so much. Look, I do have something really funny actually that happened to me that I want to tell you. And I was so excited about and I'm just all it's going to do is really like drive home my nerd Burger status. But I was beyond excited. You are not going to believe this, Okay, all of you og listeners, you will know that there is one show that I constantly recommend. It's like my

favorite show in the universe. It's called This Is Us. I've spoken about it a million times. The main guy looks like Jack. That's why I'm dating Jordan, because they look exactly the same. He's got a mustache and black hair. This guy in it called Kevin. He's a main character, and he's so fucking hot. Like I can't explain how sexy he is, how brilliant an actor is, how obsessed

I am with the whole show. I was with a friend yesterday and they were like, oh, my friends coming, and I was like cool, And then around the corner walks Kevin from This Is Us and I was like, oh my god, that's Kevin. Like his name's not Kevin, it's Justin Hartley. I was like, oh my god, that's Justin Hartley. And then he walked over to us and I was like, hang on, this is just like it's Justin Hartley, your friend or anyway. I was like, play cool, Brittany, oh my god, and he was. I was like, hey,

this is Brittany, Brittany, this is Justin. I was like, oh hey, like how are you cool? Like pretended, I was like the coolest shit in the world. I was like, nice to meet you, blah blah. Hanging out for a while. My internal monologue was like, just fucking be cool, Just be cool. So I was just like I was doing my version of cool, which I can guarantee was not cool.

And then my friend walks away and just leaves us the two of us there, and I was like, Okay, think of something cool to say, Brittany because it was in silence, and I was like, all right, look, I got something to tell you. You're like I forgot love. Like I was like, I love This Is Us so much. It's my favorite show. I've watched every episode and then he was like, oh, I'm like dying thinking about it. And then he was like, oh that's cool. I just

trying to cover up and make me sound cooler. And I was like, oh, look, I also had this podcast. It's I got like thirteen million listeners and stuff, and just so you know, I got all my listeners onto it. I talk about you every day. And he was like okay, cool, and I was like great, and then it gets worse. Then we're talking about tennis, and I know, well, no. My friend was like, Britney's partner's a tennis player. That's why they're in Atlanta. We're talking about the US Open.

He was like, I'd love to go to the US Open. And I was like, okay, now's your time. Be cool and I was like, oh cool, Like just totally signed to my dance and I'll get ill organ I your ticket. He's like, oh cool, thank you, and I was like, no worries. And then in my head I was like, what the fuck, Brittany, you don't have that power. I was like, what are you doing. I went home to Jordan and I was like, Jordan, I may have just promised the Hollywood star a ticket to the US Open.

Is that a thing that can happen? He's like, not really, And I was like, can you make that happen? He's like, anyway, I just had the biggest fangirl moment. I think that I think that I did my best at being cool. Maybe the real test of you being cool is did you drop panelol or fucking Lolo Derby or any of the other britneyisms. That would have been a true moment of showing your real self. And I don't know if the States is ready for that yet. When it was time to go, I was like, sorry, I've got to

head out. I've got to catch a Loller coaster. No, but just so you guys know, he was even better looking in real life than on the show. We have the best episode for you today. I am actually so excited for today's episode and something that we have been talking about on this podcast literally for six months, maybe even longer, and that is that today's episode is Britt is going to be sharing her egg freezing story, which I know so many of you have been following Britt

along her social media. She's been really open and with her journey so far that basically, britt is going to be telling her story from start to finish. And I know that a lot of you have listened to the episode that we did with Jania Clinic ages ago, which was with doctor Cherylfois, and that was all around fertility and IVF and sort of the whole process of going through egg freezing as well. That conversation was the real catalyst that made Brittany want to go and have her

own eggs frozen. So I am so so excited to be able to do this episode. And britt it feels weird that I'm going to be interviewing you, but I'm so proud of you for sharing the story because I know that there are so many of our listeners who have considered egg freezing who may be in a similar situation to you, think that they might want to have children but not just yet. And I think this is

going to help so many people. Yeah, I'm really excited for this episode, and we're going to get into it in a minute, so I don't want to get too much into it now, but I put the questions out on my Instagram to you guys, and I said, what do you want to know? Ask me anything about it? And I believe I had the most responses I've ever had from any Q and A on Instagram, I got

the most dms. There was just so much interest, and I just realized that there's not enough people talking about it because a lot of the questions were the same, hundreds and hundreds of people on all the same questions, and I just think that there's not enough people telling their stories. So many people have heard of egg freezing, but not that many people know someone who's actually been

through the process or physically experienced it. From the conversations that we've had, there's been so many parts of this experience that were different to what you had expected. I really hope that everybody who's in a similar life phase to what you are get something out of this episode.

And the questions that we did get did really reiterate to me that there is not enough knowledge going around because some of the questions with things like do you need sperm to freeze your eggs things like that, which the answer is no, you absolutely do not. So I think that that's really important that if you know someone that might benefit from this episode on egg freezing, or a family member or anyone, share the love because there are a lot of people out there that I think

can learn a lot from today's episode. So before we do unpacked BRIT's experience, I wanted to bring up a very important news headline that I saw this week, which, you know what, out of everything that's been happening in the world, this is the one that really stood out to me. And I'm gonna in a stinky No, not quite Actually, do you know what? Something went into a stinky? We could It wouldn't be an episode of Life on

cardunless we started talking about But here we go. Man uses live eel to cure constipation, nearly dies that ladies, gentlemen, friends, hang on. He put an eel up his butt? Is that? What is that? What is that? The colloquially what you're saying. Could you imagine being constipated and thinking that a good way to solve that problem would be to put more things up your backside? Do you know what? Actually, there's probably something to that. The eel would probably eat the

poop and cause a free passageway. So unfortunately, the eel actually ate a hole through his intestine and it made like leakage all throughout his abdominal cavity. So he almost died from it, I reckon and then not doing this. This is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. But they think that did you actually get it up there? It was fucking alive. Okay, show, it's not gonna it's not like it's a hard stick like you would. How does he like, I don't know, do you roll in a ball and

put it up there? And just way do you put it? I mean face first or fin first? Like? What way do you put it up with its face facing up your buttthole? Or do you think you have to No, I think you'd have to up face first into the bar. I mean, like, we don't really need to know the answer. Okay. So the funniest part of this whole thing, and like, look, it's not funny. Somebody almost died from this. It's pretty hectic.

But the funniest part is that when he presented to hospital, the doctors asked him how did the eel get up there? And because he was so embarrassed and he didn't want to tell them, he said it swam up there by itself. Yeah, the old fellow on the deodoring cantrig, we know what you're up to, buddy. I had eel did not swim anywhere on its own cord. No one voluntarily swims up a buttthole if they absolutely don't have to. Well, I mean there's definitely been a few men who tried to

swim up that buttthole. Anyway, Okay, I have something else I want to say on this. If you are constipated, there are plenty of other options instead of putting a sea urchin or a sea creature. Yeah, I don't know, maybe like a laxative, or like some fruit, or drinking extra water. Yeah, look, there's definitely lots of other things that you could try first. Maybe go and get like a little abdominal mass sage. Don't stick a live animal up pu bu. It's never a good idea, and it's

a lettal. In most countries, the eel was still alive when they did the surgery to fix his intestine, So they removed a live eel from this man's backside. But what's it called in medical terms? When somebody presents to a hospital and they have something up their backside. Isn't it like foreign object? Anal? Is this the thing? Talk to me as like a healthcare worker. It's just called a foreign object we'll just get a ferrol that says

query rectal xtray foreign object. That's it, and then they'll say sometimes what it is if the patient has told them, they'll be like query deotor and can query toy car, query pullball, which are all things that have happened to me? What is the weirdest thing that somebody has presented with that's been up their backside? Toilet brush with the Bristoley sidar like the Brustley sidear. Yeah, no, I'm not even kidding. I wish I wish I was kidding. Actually, it's pretty like,

it's pretty genius. It'd be acts like a little bit of a tickler. I don't think it would. I mean, I think that there is something a lot better that you could put out there than a toilet brush. I agree, But like I mean, it was probably in the bathroom. It was accessible, and he's going to be clean as a whistle after that one. Anyway. I think we've talked about that, guys. We do have time for our accidentally unfiltered stories though, before we get into the main chat,

which would be a lot more serious than this. Now, if you haven't listened to our episodes before the accidentally Unfiltered is basically us just sharing your most cooked embarrassing stories. You writing your embarrassing stories to us and we share

them with you all. So we have received I can't even tell you over the last couple of weeks because we've been away that we have received so many mess of embarrassing stories of ask on cut questions and if you have one for us, please slide into our dms on Instagram. It's Life Uncut podcast and we'll keep it for next week. But we have some crackers for you today, and it would not be Life Uncut unless we came back with some bodily function stories. I'm gonna start, and

I really feel for this girl. I don't know why because she's anonymous, but I feel for I was at my boyfriend's football club watching the end of their game when I started to feel really sick in the stomach. My tummy was gurgling like a washing machine, and I knew that I had to get the bathroom quick. Smart. I dashed into the women's bathroom and ran into one of the cubicles without looking around. There was just no time.

Had I looked around the locker room, I would have noticed all the sports bags and realized that the opposing men's team were using the women's locker rooms as the women's games had all finished. Now I am doubled over in pain in the toilet waiting for take off, when suddenly I hear the loud voices of twenty plus men enter the locker room, and I realized what was going on.

At this stage, I could have left without too much embarrassment, as they hadn't stripped off and started showering yet, but by that point I was only a few seconds away from a proper explosion. I didn't have time to find another bathroom. I had to admit defeat. I had no choice but to stay and let the floodgates open. And truly, it was the worst diarrhea I have ever experienced. After about twenty liters of liquid poop and my soul left

my body, the toilet wouldn't flush. Motherfucker, I have got this shit all over the shit I'm talking, it's down the walls, it's down the bowl. I'm sitting there in the biggest bit of stench. I had to sit in a cubicle for half an hour with my insides plastered on the toilet bowl, waiting for these guys to finish showering and leave. Oh my god, so these twenty men have walked in. She shut herself for like twenty minutes, and then she had to sit in there. They all heard.

They all were looking at her feet under there, but she just didn't come out. I'm like, I feel some I wouldn't come out either. It reminds me of when I accidentally walked in on you pooping. And remember we went to Kyl and jack Yo in the radio and you blamed you. I remember the other lady thought it was me. So if you guys don't remember this story, Britt and I went to a meeting at Karla and Jackie Oo's studios. You know, we're feeling ourselves. We were like, yeah,

is that? And holy hell, when it hits, it hits, you just can't You can't necessarily prepare for these times in your life. Anyway, I was like ran, So Britt was still like getting out of the car and like parking the car, and I was like I must go. So I ran inside, ran to the receptionist and I was like, where's your toilet. She's like, you have to check in first, and I was like no, tying, no, just give me my case. I ran to the toilet anyway, there was no one in there unleashed to the fury anyway.

Britt came in about five minutes later, and then luckily it's one of those things where you always kind of wait until whoever's in the bathroom at the same time leaves before you, like you never want to leave, and then accidentally be at the basin at the same time. That shit's just way too awkward, especially only two cubicles.

It was two, bree, so it was fine. I was like, well, she already knows it's me, So I leave the bathroom and then at the same time as I'm leaving, the receptionist forks into the tooland yeah, this is the worst stench ever. And it was like it's like someone I'm skunk could dine in there. And Laura blamed me, and I, as a good friend, just rolled with it. I was like, hey, sorry, I was like, you owe me. So Britz BRIT's not feeling very well, Pritz Pritt. She's had a bit of

gas lately. She's been a bit gassy, and I mean, like that I should get an award for that. That is like, all right, I have an accidentally unfielded story for you guys, and it's also to do with bodily functions. I apologize that we have come back hard with the poo stories, but you know, I don't fuck it. That's just it's a part of our podcast. Okay. This one time at UNI, I was my second year and I was seeing this guy that I was really really into. He was so hot, he was so rugged, he played rugby,

and all of his friends were really, really fun. I really wanted it to turn into something more. After thinking that out, he stayed at my place. We were both pretty drunk, and in the middle of the night, I heard this water just trickling noise. I thought, that's really fucking weird. There must be some water running somewhere. Suddenly I knew that it definitely was not. As my lower

body began to become saturated. I quickly realized that he had pissed the bed and it had soaked through my sheets, it had sowed through my mattress, it had soaked all over me, and now I was laying there in a puddle of his piss. I was really, this has fucking happened to me. I was really freaking out because it was so gross that I was just laying there in his pee. But I liked him. I liked him so so much, and I wanted us to become something, so

I didn't want to embarrass him. I decided the only thing I could do was to try and suck it up and pretend and go back to sleep. Later on in the morning, he woke up and then accused me of bissing the bed. I'm sorry, but no, you have to draw the line here. What did she do? He said his side was dry, and that it was my side that was wet, obviously because we had been cuddling and his penis had been facing towards me. He'd pissed

all over my back and my butt. Not believe that this guy was trying to say that I had wet my own bed. He even had a bit of a reputation as a bed weather when he got drunk. Anyway, it didn't work out, and now sometimes I think back on how I took the four for a guy who pissed on my own bed. Gee, this is just like this is a prime example of the difference between men and women. She's in the bed with piss all over her, and she's like, do you know what, I just like him.

I just won't want to embarrass him. I'll take one for the team. He wakes up there. I bet you there was a one second of hesitancy. He was just like you pissed on me, straight up calls her out and it was him. This is the difference be bed and women. You you need a medal. This is actually outrageous, the fact that you liked someone so much that you were like, I didn't want to embarrass him, and I'm just gonna lay there in his urine. Wow, you know he stold all his friends like and then you got

gas lit. Like this guy just gasolt you over a wetbed. Let's be real, you poor me, don't ever do that again. And that should be a listened to every woman that's listening to this podcast right now. Have you been weed on in the bed before? If you take anything from this podcast, please let that be the listener that you walk away with. Yes, actually something very similar to that happened to me. I was dating a guy in Woollongong. I really liked him. He was super hot, really cute.

We got along really really well. He shat on me, but I didn't care I like to get kiky sometimes. No, he had gotten absolutely just turbo at a concert, like I mean he had I don't know what he had drunk or taken or whatever, but he was off his face and I was sober. And we went back to his house and I put him to bed, and then I went to bed because it was too far for me to drive from Woollongong to Sydney. I woke up thinking, I feel really clammy, like I felt you know when

you get like the night sweats. So I woke up thinking I had the ninth sweats because everything was wet, like the whole douner was wet, and it was like up to my neck and I was like, god, I feel so clammy. And then I realized the smell and it also it also smells like you'reine. And then I woke him up and I was like, dude, you've pissed the bed. And he denied it, like fully denied it for about five minutes until I was like, you need to smell this. You have pissed the bed, and then

he started to cry. There's only one thing that makes pissing the bed worse, and that he's pissing the bed and crying. What No. Oh, guys, that is it for the start of this episode. If you have any accidentally unfiltered stories, send them on in over at life un Cut Podcasts, and also make sure that you join the Facebook discussion group because that is where all the good stuff goes down. It really does. All right, let's get

into the episode. As most of you know, I did put a few stories up on my Instagram at the time. We have spoken about it periodically, sporadically, if you will, on the podcast. I did freeze my eggs before I came overseas, and that was a long time coming, so I actually went for my consult back in December. I went for my consult back in December, and it took me that long to freeze them. And I will get into that. But I have wanted to talk about it for a long time because I know a lot of

you have had a lot of questions. I know there's a lot of interest in it, and I know a lot of people aren't openly speaking about it. So I have put together all your questions that you wanted to know, and I'm going to try to get through, if possible, all of them. I guess I'll start with the why. I'm thirty three and last year most of you would have already listened to an episode we did with a Jeneia fertility specialist, doctor Cheryl Foi now doctor cherylf WI

is amazing. We really did our research when we did the fertility episode because we wanted to get somebody on that was that really knew their stuff and they have helped a lot of women and couples with their fertility. So we got Cheryl on and by the end of the episode, I spoke to Cheryl off record and I just said, look, you've basically without meaning to convince me that I need to come in for a consult? Is

do you think that I should? And She's like absolutely, She's like, I mean, the fact of the matter is there's probably probably everything's fine, but you're thirty three. It wouldn't be the worst thing for you to just come and check out your fertility. I was single at the time. There was like no relationship inside. You all know how long I've been single before. I wasn't dating anybody at all. And I work in the medical industry, so I know

that there are problems with fertility. I know that unfortunately our eggs do deteriorate. And I had some really good friends, so Renee Aras, she's recently come out and she's spoken about her fertility issues. She's one of my best friends. She is now pregnant, which I'm so stoked on. But she also went through Jenea clinic and she had a real battle with fertility. So I had all these people close to me that, for no reason or they couldn't figure it out, we're having a lot of trouble with

their fertility. So I was like, Boom, I need to go and do something about it. I need to take control of my own life because nobody else is going to take control of this life for me. And I

decided to book in for my consult with Cheryl. So one of the things that I found so incredible about that chat with Ryl is, like I guess, it was this understanding that going and freezing your eggs, even if you don't freeze your eggs, just going and speaking to someone who is a fertility expert if you think maybe you want to have children in the future, if you're not sure you want to have children or not, but if you find that you're single in your mid thirties

and you want to have the opportunity of choice. That was the thing that really struck me. She was like, you don't have to make the decision to freeze your eggs, but understanding what your options are gives you the agency of choice. Not knowing and not having those conversations only means that if you then decide when you're thirty eight or thirty nine or forty that you've met someone who you really want to have children with, it makes your

decision making infinitely harder and maybe limits your choices. So I know that, like at that point when we had that interview, Britt, you hadn't met Jordan yet, you weren't together, you were completely single, and children for you hasn't necessarily been something that's like on your immediate radar. But I think i'd love you to explain kind of what your

perception is and how you feel about having kids. That's right, Like the younger I was, I always thought I was going to have four kids, have a white picket, fans, the two dogs, live on the beach. That's the life I thought. And I just I'm one of four kids, and I always just thought my life would be exactly the same. And I love kids, my nieces and nephews,

love my friend's children. And the older I got, and I don't know if it's because I was single for so long that my brain just subconsciously started to plan a different journey for me. But the older I got, the longer I was single, I started to think maybe it wasn't for me. And at the start, that was really really hard because I didn't feel like I was making that decision. I feel like life was making that

decision for me. And I I remember saying to you, Laura, like I remember getting upset with my sister, saying, you know, crying, being like, it's not for me. Life doesn't want to give me a partner. Life doesn't want me to have the happy family. Life doesn't want me to have children. And I was looking at that completely the wrong way. And I know a lot of people out there right now that are single, that are in their late twenties, early thirties, forties, that are you know, don't have children,

that they think the same thing. They think that because I don't have a partner, life doesn't want them, or life's plan is not to have children. But that is absolutely incorrect. And I think we're seeing people now like Natalie and Burullia just came out, she's in her forties, she just had a child on our own through IVF.

You absolutely are in charge of your fertility journey. And the older I got, I started to sort of challenge my own thoughts and I realized that I actually if I had met I asked myself, if I'd met the right person right now and he wanted kids, would that make me happy? And would I do it? And the answer was no, I still wouldn't have had them. I just wasn't ready for it, and I wasn't one hundred percent sure. And the reason I decided to freeze my

eggs was exactly what Laura just said. I wanted to know that I would have the option down the track if need be, because the fact is, when you freeze your eggs, your eggs are snap frozen in time at that age. So my eggs now, if I use them in ten years at forty three, there will still be the health of a thirty three year old egg. If the time comes and I can't fall pregnant naturally, there's a weight off my shoulders that I know that tucked away on ies, some little baby Brittanys that are waiting

to be created. So that's I guess that's the why. And this is kind of relevant to your decision making. But does Jordan want to have children? I just want to say when I say it's irrelevant to your decision making, what I mean is is that even if Jordan decides he doesn't want to have children and you guys aren't together in the future, obviously that's not what you're hoping

and not what we're expecting. But if you were single when you're forty and you decided to have children, I guess I want people to understand that if you're choosing to freeze your eggs, you don't need to be in a relationship. You have full autonomy and agency over your eggs. So I was very single when I chose to freeze my eggs. And this is the funny thing that I think. I booked my appointment a long time in advance for my first consultation, and I went to my consultation and

it was a Friday. I'll never forget it. It was three pm on a Friday that I had this consult and I was like, one hundred percent, let's do this. Sign me up. Let's get the hormone injections ready. And then that night I met Jordan. That was when we had our first day. So the day that I finally was like, oh, well, I'm going down the track on my own. I'm going to do this whole journey on my own. I met Jordan that night, and most of you know, Jordan and I just fell head over heels in love from day one,

and we started to spend every day together. So after about a week, it was really soon. I just told him what was happening because I knew that I was going to start these injections. It's something that you couldn't really hide from your partner, and I didn't want to hide it. The older I get, the more confident I get in who I am and what I want to do, and that people that want to be my life need to be a part of my life as it is, instead of I'm not going to change your decision because

i've met someone. So I remember, we're at Bondi Beach, We're going for a walk and I told him, I said, so, I'm about to freeze my eggs. He's like, what does that mean. I was like, well, I'm like, you know, I'm thirty three. He was twenty six, so there was a big difference. I said, I'm thirty three. My eggs, I don't have that many eggs. He's like, what do you mean you have like two hundred thousand of them?

And I'm like, well, you don't. I was like, you originally do one day and then I explained it to him a little bit and I was like, oh, is this going to scare him off because he thinks I just want to settle down and have kids now. And he didn't really say anything. We didn't have a big conversation about it. We just changed the subject. And then the next day he came back and he's like, so I've done a lot of research in the last twenty

four hours. And he went away and he researched on his own so that he would come back and have a proper conversation about it, and I was so thankful for that. He just asked a lot of questions. He said, I understand now why you want to do it. I'm completely encouraging of it. But he's like, I don't know if I want kids. He's like, I just want to tell you that straight up, and I said, well, I think that I do want kids, so I want you to know that. And then we had to have a

conversation on whether we even continue dating. If he was a strong no, and I'm a strong yes, but neither of us are strong on either. He would be probably leaning more towards not kids for like another ten years, whereas I'm like, I definitely have to have kids before then. So the best thing that we could have done in this situation is freezer eggs because if in ten years time we do want to have a child and I

can't anymore, I've got those there. So he was really great about it, and we had a lot of people running in saying they're in new relationships and they don't know how to broach it with their partner. They ask for advice on what to do. Is it going to turn them off? Is it too much too soon? And I just think the best thing you can do is

be honest. Just because you're take you're making the decision to freeze your eggs doesn't mean you're trying to lock someone down and have a baby with him in a week. In fact, it's the opposite. It's you trying to say to them, I don't want this right now, but I want to have it later. If you're going to have a conversation with someone and they're gonna run the other day direction, I just think they're not the right person

for you. And I really do believe that. So if any of you are in that situation now where you're like, I don't know how to approach him, he's going to think it's too much. It's absolutely not too much. It is your life, and if they want to be a part of your life, they need to understand what you're going through and why you're going through it. So I think you just need to have the conversation. I want

one hundred percent agree. And I also think that as women, as we get older, you do need to be vocal about what you want in your life because, like I mean, and I've heard it so many times, I did it myself. I was in a relationship for six years with someone who didn't want to marry me and didn't want to

have kids with me, and nothing fucking changed. Like that's the thing, right, we can we can be so fearful about saying the wrong thing or coming across as though what we want in life doesn't match up and that person leaving. You know, there's fear about being left or being abandoned, but if what you want isn't on the same path, you're never gonna get there. You're not going

to just convince them one day. If they've shown you time and time again that you know, maybe what you guys want in the long run isn't compatible, then I really think that those hard conversations have to be had as early as possible, so that way you're not wasting time on someone who doesn't want the same things as you. In hindsight, if I didn't meet Jordan, I would have

frozen my eggs months ago. The reason I waited so long because I ended up waiting probably nearly four months between the consult and Cherylfoire my doctor, she said, look, you can wait up to six months. That's fine, She's like, your eggs will still be the same in six months. I knew that I had then had a limited time with Jordan, and I didn't want to spend a few weeks three to four weeks just feeling shitty whilst I was on these hormones injections. I just wanted to enjoy

our time together. So I guess we should start right at the beginning, like after you've had this consultation with doctor Cherylfire, when you actually made the decision to go down this process of egg freezing. Can you tell me what that process was like? And also how did you find out what the quality of your eggs will like? So I guess to start with, you have to get blood tests done and an ultrasound, and that's like base level fertility tests. You get a blood test to test

your AMH level. Now, your AMH level is anti malarian hormone and that is a hormone that is secreted by your ovarian follicles. So essentially, the higher the level of your AMH, the more follicles aka potential eggs that you have, So you want to get a high number. That's literally just a blood test. You just you can go to your GP and you can say, hey, I want to test my fertility. Let's do this, and ninety nine percent of gps will encourage you to do that and they'll

give you the blood test. Then you need to have an ultrasound, an internal ultrasound, so trans vaginal. That means the probe goes in your vagina. If anyone hasn't had that before, I mean if you've had babies and all that kind of thing, you would have had it. The probe goes in your vagina and they literally just count the follicles that you've got. So my AMH was thirteen, and so that shows that my follicle count is thirteen. This is actually not that abnormal for my age. So

it's not like the best reading that you want. It's not the highest reading you want. But what Cheryl told me is it's pretty standardized for my age for thirty three. And that is the whole reason that people will encourage people above the thirties to go and get these tests because you can be I know how healthy I am. I don't do drugs, I don't smoke. I've always treated my body well. And the fact of the matter is there's nothing you can do to prolong the health of

your eggs in women, they just deteriorate. So this AMH level of thirteen and follicle of thirteen, these don't predict the chance of falling pregnant naturally, but the chance of falling pregnant is more linked to your eight. So I was given a chance. Cheryl told me in the office when all my blood test results came back and all my follicles. She sat me down and she said, look, you have about a fifteen percent chance of falling pregnant naturally.

And I was gobsmacked. I was like, fifteen percent, I mean fifteen percent every month is really quite low. And I was very upset. I was like, this is not what I expected. I thought you were going to say that I had a really healthy body, that everything was great, and I would be able to just go and pop out some eggs and put them on ice. How did you process that when you were told that your fertility wasn't what you expected. It was really hard. I hadn't

met Jordan yet. I went to the console on my own because I just didn't expect to get any bad news. And it wasn't bad news. I don't want to say it's bad news, but I wasn't expecting a fifteen percent chance of natural pregnancy. It was really hard. I cried. I got really upset because I immediately went and I don't know why, because I'm not usually like this and I wasn't expecting it, but I immediately went down the thought track of you're never going to have a baby,

your fertility is low, you don't have a boyfriend. It's not on your cards, like you're going to be alone. And then I got you know, when like one thing's really bad in your head, it's like a snowball. I was like, not only are you not gonna have a baby, You're gonna be forever alone. No one's gonna love you, no one's gonna date you, You're never gonna have a family. And I just I got so down on myself and I went home and I didn't tell anyone for a

little while, oh, for like twenty four hours. I told my sister Sherry the next day, and she was really good too. She's like, that's all right, let's just get those eggs on ice, which is exactly the response you want from someone in your life if you tell them that. You don't want anyone to sort of feel sorry for you, or you just want someone to say that's cool, that's normal. Let's just do what we have to do, and that's all there is. All you can do is go and

do what you have to do and put them on ice. Now, what Cheryl did say that did make me feel better when I spoke to her again after, because I was so upset. She's like Britt to be honest, like she's like, it's pretty normal for your age. It's just one of those things that's unfortunate. There's nothing wrong with you. I had no CIS, I had no end. Demetrio says, I had nothing inside of me. The only thing that was

against me was my age. I remember this time. I remember when you got that first news that your fertility was at fifteen percent, and I remember how upset you were.

And I think that for anybody like that comes as such a shock because you know, you always hear about those cases where people just seem to get pregnant so easy, and that for me, like we've had conversations about miscarriage on this podcast, It's fertility has been like a constant running conversation on this podcast because it's so important to talk about how fucking hard it can be for some people and how challenging it can be to actually fell

pregnant and have that family. Because I think we see so much that it's like it looks easy. Social media makes it look easy. Every fucking day there's a pregnancy announcement. And I even remember when we announced that we were

having Maley. It was really important to us to talk about the fact that we had had a miscarriage, because I would hate for somebody else who is struggling with their pregnancy to see another happy pregnancy announcement and think it's so fucking easy for them, because for a lot of women it isn't. And I think that this whole concept of egg freezing and being able to have some choice and being able to just know what's going on in your body is so powerful because without knowledge, you

can't make the best decision for yourself. So let's get into the actual practical and physical side of it, because I don't think people are aware of how physically demanding actually collecting the eggs is. And I know that it was a process that was really full on for you. You had to inject yourself every day. There was a lot of hormone treatment that is involved in this. Could you talk us through the process that you had to go through every day so that your eggs could actually

be collected. Yeah, And just in addition to what you just said, it was really important for me to talk to people about it because it made me feel better. I didn't want to sit in my room and dwell on it and think the worst, which I think a lot of people don't want to rely on their friends and family, or they don't want to put pressure on them, or they don't want to bother them. But I think it's really important to talk about it. I was, and I don't want to stay lucky because it's not lucky.

But my girlfriend, Renee, like I said, she was literally injecting herself at the same time that I was, so that was quite nice for us to be able to both talk to each other about how are you feeling? Did you get this feeling? And then she had done already around of it before me, so she's like, what your feeling is normal? Hanging there tomorrow is going to be worse. It was just really nice to have someone to go through that with and talk to about it.

But the two week hormone injections are, in all honesty, not what I expected. And now I want to say that they are different for everybody. So what I'm going to tell you now is my experience. Some people might feel ten times worse, some people might feel ten times better. Normal symptoms are like fatigue and headaches and weight gain.

And when I say weight gain, it's not actual weight gain, it's just you get very heavy in your lower abdomen, like it's like a period on steroids, So you get a lot of pain and heaviness and you swell a lot. So a lot of people can look a couple of months pregnant, but it all goes away at the end. Now, from my experience, you start injecting. The normal cycle is fourteen days of injections, and every couple of days you

might introduce another injection. So I went from starting at one injection and I ended up being doing three injections a day. That is individual to you, so that is what you're doing, will tell you you need, and that is based off your constant ultrasounds and blood tests. So egg freezing is quite demanding. You need to be available time wise. Every two days, I had to go into the city to the clinic, and it's very time sensitive. So it can't be like, oh, I'm busy today, can

I go tomorrow? I'm busy now, can I come tonight. You have to go when they tell you to in the morning, because I can't believe how much your body is like a clock and timing is imperative. So every two days you go back in for a blood test and another internal ultrasound and off those readings, it determines are your follicles responding to the hormones, how much they're responding to the hormones, what your levels are at, and that depends if you need more or less of the

injections that you're giving yourself. So my follicles weren't responding very well. Some of them were, Some of them are growing. They measure them so amazing, so they measure them and they grow so much. Over an a lot of mine went responding, which is why I went a couple of days extra and I had some more injections at the end, just to really pump them through. So the first two days I got a really bad headache, Like I'm talking, one of the worst ones I've ever had, And they

do warn you of that. They're like, the first two days is a really bad headache. I was in bed, I was light sensitive, I was taking painkillers. It was really bad. Then it just went and I didn't get another headache for the two weeks. First five days I called up the fertility clinic and I let no joke. I said, I don't think I'm injecting it properly. I'm worried that's not going in. She was like, what do you mean. I was like, I don't feel anything. I'd

feel one hundred percent fine. Life was normal. I didn't feel one thing. She's like, that's normal. She's like not everyone feels everything. And I was like, this is great. What's everyone talking about. I'm having a wonderful time. And then the second week came and oh my god, everything just changed and I was Laurie probably remember. I was just like crying and everything. I was so emotional. Everything feels like the world's against you. I would cry it

and add on TV. I was at Jordan all the time, like I were having arguments on the phone. I was like, you don't love me, You're giving me enough attention. He's like, whoa brude. He's like, He's like, everything's I'm exactly the same as I was yesterday. What are you talking about? And I was just so needy and so emotional. And I knew that as well. So I would have this fight with Jordan and then I would call him back

and I'd say, I'm sorry, it's the hormones. He's like, I know it was really fine because he've done his own research as well. But the hormones. The feelings you get, like the sadness and the tears are a real thing, and it was it was really crazy to experience, I imagine, and I can't. I don't know, but you can tell me. I imagine it's like pregnancy. I imagine it's like those early feelings when you get rushed with these hormones. I mean, I guess I can compare it to when like the

couple of days before I get my period. I'm like, such, and I know that this is like that on literally on steroids, on hormones. Yeah, like actual stone. But like I remember time, and I think you know this is actually I'm learning so much from speaking to you about this because I remember this time. I remember when you were going through this, and I was like, why is

Britt being so sensitive? Like I didn't know this. We for everyone listening, like we had probably our first actual argument at during that period, and it was like, I wish I had better understood what you were going through, Like and it wasn't an argument in that, you know, of course, like fuck with like sisters guys, we arguing that we make up five minutes later, like nothing changes, but it was you weren't you. You were very sensitive.

I think, like normally nothing really phases you, like you're very go with the flow, and when somebody has such a shift in their personality, I guess it's hard to understand. And also we hadn't had a lot of conversations around what the hormones were actually going to do to you and how you were going to respond to them. So I'm learning this now from having this conversation with you. I didn't realize that that's how strongly you were affected

by it. I didn't realize you were so sad, Like I'm so sorry that I wasn't more aware of that at the time. I mean, like, you don't have to apologize it was I probably didn't tell you either, but I am very much I don't want to put anything on other people. I don't want to cause a problem. But I didn't realize how much it would affect me. Otherwise I would have told you. I honestly was expecting nothing. And then one day I woke up in a wave of emotions, like anyone could speak to me, and I

was in tears. I was just beside myself all the time. And that's like you just said, that's not me in my relationships. I'm going with the flow in work relationships and go with the flow all the time. Not a lot stresses me out, but yeah, it was fucking crazy. Man. It was like I would just sit in my lound room and cry and nothing. I was just actually I

would sit there. I remember this one day and I took a video of it because I was going to put this whole highlight to reel up and explanation on my stories for Instagram, to answer everyone's questions before I decided just to do the podcast because there was just too much information. But I was just sitting there and I remember I got a message was like some bad news, but no, it wasn't bad news. It was news, it wasn't bad. And I remember just hysterics. I was sobbing

and I couldn't breathe. And I remember recording it just to point out, like, guys, this is what I'm this is what's happening to me right now, and I can tell you right now there's no reason for me to be doing this. I just I remember I wanted to note that. I was like, you should not be crying right now. But I was beside myself, and I think

it's important to give yourself enough space. If you're going to freeze your eggs, you need to be aware that this can happen, and make sure your schedule's pretty free. You're gonna want to just be cruising around the house, not having a lot of places to go. Don't be booking things in with people. And I think it's really important to tell people around you what you're doing and what might happen, because there'll be a lot more understanding

when you burst out into tears. You know, it's such an unfair thing because I think that you know, if you're going through the process of egg freezing, in one side of it, it's very empowering because you're taking that agency and you're having that choice. But on the other side, like, it is incredibly emotional, It is personal, and there are

these other feelings that are loaded into it. Maybe you haven't met that person yet, maybe you're unsure as to whether you're going to have children on your own or with someone. Like there's a lot of unknown and that can be really fucking scary as well. So then to think that you're already dealing with these big emotions and then to just turbocharge it with a bit of hormones. Seems incredibly unfair to have to process all of that in one go, So you have to inject yourself every day.

Can you talk me through once your follicles are actually at an optimal level, what happens then? How do they actually go about collecting the eggs and what is the process once they have collected the eggs? You inject yourself every single day you're right, and then after a few days you're adding another injection and that is all very time sensitive, so the same time every day. A lot of people ask if you can still go to work. Do you have to take time off work. You don't

have to. If you can, great because you might feel really shitty or at least the second week. But you do have to be accessible to go to your appointments in the morning, which is usually between seven and nine from most clinics. You have to be accessible for that, and you have to be able to inject yourself at the same time every day. So I picked lunch time, so mine was about twelve o'clock every single day because for me that was easy. I could get up, go for a walk, do my work in the morning, and

when I had my lunch. I just knew that I would remember to inject myself. In terms of injecting yourself, it's not painless, but it's not painful. I don't want anyone to be scared of it. Now. I know. I work in the hospital and I inject people. I found it very easy. I know a lot of people don't, but I don't want you to be scared of if it hurts, because it really doesn't. You just get a

little bit of fat. The needle is so skinny, like it's so thin, and then you don't even really feel maybe the second injection, I did you feel it going in, But otherwise it's so quick and easy. The way that they give you the medications is fool proof, like you draw up exactly the amount you need. You can't really make mistakes. So I don't want anyone to be scared of that. At the end of the second week, you do start to get really bloated, and I'll put some

stories up on my Instagram to show you guys. I'll put some on the lifelin cart Instagram as well. But I didn't get nearly as bloated as I've seen a lot of other people, because you know, a lot of people share photos of themselves. There's a lot of forums and things like that. I was lucky I didn't get that swollen. You do get a lot of fluid retention and things like that, but you've got to remember your

follicles inside you are literally swollen. The whole point is that they're growing, so all of a sudden, you have twenty follicles in you that are taking up extra space, so they have to have somewhere to go. I know that this is something that it's like a cruel irony of IVF as well. You know IVF and also egg freezing is that a lot of women do have bloating and it's around the area where you put on side

when you first get pregnant. And for a lot of people, it's this irony of like, you're not pregnant, you're going through fertility issues, or you're working through your own fertility, and yet you're having some of the symptoms and side effects of what you would if you're pregnant, And the cruel irony of that, I know can be emotionally really hard for some people to actually process and deal with.

I had a girlfriend who went through IVF, and she said that was one of the hardest things, was like feeling like she looked like she was pregnant, feeling those changes to her body, and knowing that she didn't have a baby, which is what she so desperately wanted. And I think that, like brit said earlier, like there's so many parts of this that can be a really emotional journey for someone. So I don't know if this is typical for egg freezing, but I imagine this is what

it was like to be pregnant. But the hormones. I went off a lot of food that I would usually love, and I was wanting to eat a lot of food that I wouldn't usually eat, but like things that I would have every day, coffee, certain smells, and pastas. I was really off them and I didn't get it at the start, and then after a few days I was like, oh, I think this is probably from the hormones, because they're

doing the same thing as when you're early pregnancy. So I think that whether that was just me, whether a lot of people experienced that, I don't know. It was something else I had. But the day before the biggest change for me, the day before collection, when your follicles are at their absolute biggest because they've just been stockpiled to the shit house with hormones. I went for a walk in the morning with Sherry. I remember seeing Matt actually halfway on the walk. I went for a walk

with Sherry. I left my house and walked to the beach and it was fine, and then it just hit me. I could on the way back the pain was excruciating. I couldn't. Every single step was jarring. And this is just what happens when your follyicles are at capacity. You can literally feel them like bouncing around and you're abdomen just had to go home and crawl into a ball. I was walking. They call it like the pregnancy wattle. You know, when you're pregnant you have to waddle into

the hospital. You can't walk properly. You do that when you are at collection day. You can't walk properly. Every bump in the car hurts, every step hurts. To touch your abdomen hurt. It was so highly sensitive. I was really gobsmacked at that. I did not expect that at all. But that is one thing that I really want to drive home to people is you can probably work most of it, but in the last few days, I would one hundred percent. You recommend you're taking that time off work,

So how do they actually collect the eggs? So I was actually put under So most places at Jeneia, you can choose whether you want to be put under anesthetic or you want to just get an anesthetic put into your vagina so that the area is numb. I just chose to be knocked out. I was like, I do not want it needle going into my cervix while I'm awake. But that's also a difference in price to what you decide if you decide to anesthesia or not. Not all

clinics will offer the choice. I do know this. Jenea offered it, but not all of them will do it. Some will only have one option. But they essentially, and this is I'm not going to get technical, but they basically put they just like a little vacuum slip and slide. It's like a little I think of it like a slipper dip. But I remember when they were telling me, I was like, they just put it straight into the source and they just like slightly suck the eggs out

and then they immediately check on the spot. There's a I'm sure she's not called a scientist. I don't know her official name, but there's someone in the clinic with a microscope ready, and the eggs literally come straight out. They go straight into a peatra dish and they check to see which ones are at full growth and which ones are healthy enough to be frozen on the spot.

So it's very very quick, and I think the whole thing was like half an hour that you're in the operating theater and then you wake up, you don't remember anything, and you go home. Can you tell us how many eggs of yours were collected and what was the quality of the eggs once they had actually been able to extract them? So we were expecting. They really want to manage expectations, and I think that's a really great thing. They don't want to give you any false hope. They

don't want to talk it down too much. But she said, look, if we can get eight eggs on ice, I'm gonna be happy, because you might get ten eggs taken out. Then they go into the little petri dish, you look at them under the microscope, and five of them are good, and five of them are They're not always all good. So she's like I'd be aiming for eight. If we can get eight, I'll be stoked. And I was like, great,

eight chances, I would be so happy. And when I woke up, we got fifteen baby Britneys, So that was like beyond anything I could have hoped for. What that meant is fifteen of them were healthy enough to be frozen. That does not mean that all of them will survive defrosting come the time. So there's always a chance that some of the eggs when it's time to put them to use them, whether that's ibir or however you want to do it, not all of them will always survive.

So the more that you can get frozen, the more chances you have. So I got fifteen. What that meant is I don't have to do another cycle. So if you only get a few eggs on ice, if I only got three or four, I probably would have done another cycle again to make sure I could, you know, try and get another three or four. So I had more tweets down the track. But I've got fifteen. One hit wonder and I'm not going to do it again.

How many cycles can someone do if they find that they're not getting the right amount of eggs or a high number of eggs, because I do remember when we did that interview with doctor Cheryl, she said that it was around twenty percent that can be damaged in the defrosting process. How many rounds can you essentially do before or is that a completely personal decision? I mean, look, essentially, you can do as many as you want. As long as you're producing eggs, you can go through another cycle.

I think what's more stopping people is the emotional toll it can take. Financially, Obviously, every single cycle costs you. Cost was a really big question here, so a lot of people saying what is the general cost from start to finish that people can expect? Is it different for everyone? What does that depend on? Then what is the cost of storage? So I really wanted to make sure of this one, so I went back to Geneia and I just said, tell me how it works for everyone? What

are the options? Because the fact is cost is a really big thing for a lot of people, and a lot of people that freeze their eggs are single people, so they might not have two people's incomes to work with. They might have, you know, higher bills to pay higher living expenses, so I'm going to break down there's probably three main costs, and like there's a bit numbery here and a bit of word vomit, but it's important that you know what you're paying for. Again, every clinic is

going to be different. I can only tell you about the clinic that I went through and the experience that I went through. So for me, the first cycle of egg freezing with Jinea costs four thousand, six hundred dollars. Now this includes the cycle cost, the freezing and six month storage, so that's four thousand, six hundred. But then on top of that you need to pay medication costs, which are about fifteen hundred dollars, and I say about

that's different for everyone. It depends on what medication you need. And then fifteen hundred and twenty nine dollars for the day surgery fee. So that's the actual extraction fee. So we have four thousand, six hundred, fifteen hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty nine. So that just so you know, that equals seven, six hundred and twenty nine dollars. That is just for this clinic alone. Everywhere is going to be different. What I would say is you need to

remember a few things. You need to factor a few things into that price. So you've got your seven, six hundred and twenty nine, but you do need to pay storage on top of that after that six months fee. So the storage on top of that is forty five dollars a month. I mean to me, I worked that out to be a bit like a coffee a day.

But yeah, the surgery fee and the medication fee, they're the two fees that can't really be standardized because people need different amounts of medication and people are either going to be choose to be put under anesthesia for the procedure or they're going to choose not to be, and that's going to affect your price as well. It's not a small amount of money, and I know that a lot of people listening. It's a privilege to be able

to make these decisions and these choices. But it is a payment that gives you peace of mind, you know, it's an investment that gives you peace of mind. Depending on where you're at in your own fertility journey. I think being able to have that choice in the future is going to be something that's really empowering for a lot of women. But maybe to be able to get

yourself there. You have to think, Okay, I'm going to save ten thousand dollars and have that money set aside and know that that's what you're going to be investing it into. And I think fertility is one of those things that, unfortunately, for a lot of people, there are a lot of hidden costs. There are a lot of hidden costs around having kids, There are a lot of hidden costs around IVF, and for every single person, that experience can be very, very different. Brit was it painful

at all? Oh my god, the last day extraction, day in the day after is really painful. You can't walk. It's unlike anything I could have imagined. No one told me that either, so I didn't really expect that. People tell you you're uncomfortable, but I was beyond uncomfortable. I was. It was so hard to walk. So yeah, that was the only painful thing. The injections, again, they're like a little prick. Towards the end, you do sort of like this one. I can't remember the correct terminology, but you

do one sort of. It's called a trigger shot, and it's to start ovulation so that you can they can and it's very time based. I had to get up at one am in the morning to do it. On the dot, you have to set three or because you cannot miss this or you've ruined everything. Mate, I can't even remember to take my contraceptive pill, let alone remember to get up at one in the morning and day fucking do you need me to start remember taking to take your contraception woman? But yeah, so like to get

up at one am. That last trigger shot, it's only one that really hurt. That was the one that hurt the most, Like, not to the point that I couldn't do it, but I was like, this is shitty. This is a shitty, shitty needle. The other ones were like the other ones are piece of cake. I guess that that's one thing that people kind of It can be a barrier for people. It's being fearful about it being painful.

Do you think even with everything that you went through, even with like the ups and downs of the hormones, even with feeling like it was really painful an extraction day, do you feel like it has been worth it this experience? One hundred percent. I'm so glad that I did it. I ended up with eighteen eggs, which only three were bad, so I got the fifteen frozen, and I honestly felt like the second I was told in the waiting room, in the recovery room that I had fifteen eggs, it

was a weight off my shoulder. I was so high as well, like when they tell you you're still so high from the drivers. Anyway, if you watch my Instagram, you'll remember I ended up posting some sort of drug injuiced video. I'm so glad. I feel like I don't have to think about it anymore, because as a woman, you do. You think about it constantly. You're like, holy shit, I'm running out of time. What if when I do meet someone it's not gonna work. What if it's not easy.

I'm seeing my friends struggle. I'm seeing my friends I have miscarriage. I'm seeing my friends go through IVF. Like we all know that it is very real. Fertility is not very easy for a lot of people, and a lot of people don't speak about that. I have so many friends that have had trouble with their pregnancies, and they're all healthy, and I'm not saying that to scare anyone. I have a lot of friends that have had babies really easily, too. The fact of the matter is we

just don't know. So my advice is to you, if you're thinking about it, you don't have to jump into it, but just start the process. Just get that initial blood test and the initial ultrasound so that you can have the information you need to make the decision. That's all you need to do. You don't have to get down the track, you don't have to commit to anything, but

you've got the information and that way, you know. I've spoken to a lot of people that I've gotten to forty realized that they can't have a baby anymore, and they're like, I wish I took the advice of other people when I was younger. I wish I frozed my exit in my thirties. I just didn't know because people weren't speaking about it. So if anything can come from this episode, it's that if it has been on your mind at all, or even if it hasn't, and now it is on your mind and in your late twenties,

your early thirties, just get the blood test. Just go to the doctor, get the blood test, get the follical count, and then you're armed with all the information you need to make a decision and you won't have any regrets laid down the track. But I just want to say as well, like, I'm so proud of you for going and doing this and like sharing this experience and for making those choices for yourself. I know that last year this was something that was really weighing heavily on you.

And obviously we share so much of our story with you guys, but I don't know if you shared the full extent of how much this had emotionally affected you, and especially before you met Jordan. I'm really fucking proud of you. It's something that you are never going to regret, and it's given you this peace of mind and this comfort that no matter what happens in the future, you're still going to be able to have that choice. And for that, like, I'm really grateful that you've been able

to make that decision. I was like, Wow, that made me feel really great. No, and that is true, and I don't think I've even spoken about it on this episode yet, but for probably eighteen months, subconsciously and consciously,

I was really down about it. I was, I mean, I was in my I'm heading towards my mid thirties, and everyone around me was having a baby, and I felt like I was the only person, or even if they weren't having a baby, they were trying, and it was really it was really hard to think that I was going to have this really lonely life and no one wanted to be with me. And I know that's not true now, but it's so easy for us as women to start to get really down on ourselves and

feel like where the reason and what's wrong? And I had so many conversations with Laura where I was so upset, just saying, no one loves me. I'm never going to have a child, I'm never going to have what you have. And of course I see Laura more than anyone. She's got a beautiful family. You've got two kids that I was always around. You've been pregnant since I've met you, Like you're always pregnant. I don't know anyone that's like pregnant as much as you. And it was like it

was fucking shit. I was, But you don't want people to feel sorry for you either. But it was a shitty couple of years where I was like, I just felt like a loser, and I don't know what other way to explain it. I was like, I'm a loser. No, I'm a loser. I'm unlovable. It's not meant for me. But I hope no one else feels that. And if you are, I wish I could snap you out of it, because it has nothing to do with you, and you

are in control of taking control of a situation. So all I can say is, if it's on your mind, do yourself a favor and go and start the investigation. Okay, And I know that was a lot to digest it, but we are moving on to our second favorite segment, which is Suck and Sweet, the way we wrap every single episode our highlight now lowlight of the week. Laura, I'd feel like you're I mean, you're in perpetual lockdown. Is that your suck? I haven't left my house in

four weeks. Yes, it's my suck. I am am drowning. I'm drowning in fucking baby lockdown, Sydney Hell. And also the fact that we're supposed to like Matt and I. You know, I know that everybody has had a lot and made a lot of sacrifices during these lockdowns, but like this midyear break for Britain and I, Matt and

I was supposed to go to New Zealand. We were supposed to start planning our wedding, and everything got canceled and we've just pretty much taken our year break, which was this last four weeks, and spent it in our farm. I really hope you can still have your wedding. Fuck same, guys, it's same. I know. I know that there's so many people listening to these who have already had to postpone their weddings, but I think I might be in the

same basket as you, So that's pretty crap. But like, do you know what, overall, even though we are in lockdown, even though we have been kind of like you know, having a bit of a tough week in that respect, it's one of the nice things that almost every day Matt and I are like, it's really nice that we love each other and therefore where it's kind of nice spending so much time together, Like there are worse people to be spending lockdown with the Matthew Johnson I have

freaking loved And I'm going to tell you, my sweet I've actually got a couple of sweets, So Lockdown's my suck. My sweets are one. Lola has cut her first tooth, which is wild. Yes, she's like it feels like just yesterday when I did the episode where I've given birth. So now the fact that she has cut a tooth and she's dragging herself across the floor is crazy to me. And also, my sweet is just being back like I've loved doing the battery caps with Matt. I'm so happy

that we're back to doing these episodes again. Even though this has worked for us, this is like such a highlight of every week. I fucking love bringing you guys these episodes, so I am so excited. We also had our two year birthday and we hit thirteen million downloads, so there are so many things to be excited about. And guys, we put our merchandise up and you guys

bought it and sold it out in twenty minutes. You crashed the site and then we sold out, So I stoked that there are going to be so many you're out there wearing our life uncut jumpers, and we do have another drop coming, so don't worry if you missed out, but you still need to get in quick bridge. What is your suck and suite? Okay, my suck. I guess it's a sucking a sweep. But my suck is I probably can't come home now when I was supposed to

come home. Laugh but Australia about that. My suck is that I'm going to stay in America for the next like four months. No, basically, the flights have been canceled. Britt was supposed to come home at the end of this month or at the end of August. That's not going to happen now at all. For who knows how long there is a chance that I can't come home now. We just have to wait to see what the government does with letting people in and out. So that's just

a waiting game. My suite is, honestly, it has just been so nice to be with. I feel like I'm in my own little bubble here with Jordan. It's just him and a couple of friends. Jordan and I are spend so much time together. We haven't had one argument. I just honestly feel like I have met my soulmate. And I was really worried about coming over here about if it was going to be different, what it was going to be like to be in each other's pocket all the time, and we're just obsessed with each other.

So I'm just from sure we have with him, Gustine, and I love it so much. I'm so here for it. I know that there are so many people who followed it along in your disaster dating stories who are now like, yeah, Brittany found love. We fucking love love anyway, guys, that

is it from us. It is a big one. But also we really wanted to bring you and do justice to this episode because it's been such a huge part of Britt's story over the past year, and we actually have a bonus episode coming out for you tomorrow which is going to be great. So many of you reached out in regards to Ellie from Comfortable in your Skin, and now this interview actually comes as a recommendation from

so many of you. We did a ask Guncut question quite a few weeks back now where we talked about Leavia Plasty, and after that episode, I cannot tell you the number of people who slid into our DMS and said, you have to get Ellie on an interviewer on the podcast. So we have a really special bonus episode coming out for you tomorrow. This week is going to be just life on Cut week we are coming back with a bang, baby, But that is it from us today. So thank you

so much to everybody who's listened. If you have any questions for asking on cart, slide on into our DMS at Life on Cut podcast, the same thing goes, but accidentally unfiltered. Tell your mum, to your dad, tell you dog, tell your friends, and share the lung because we lovel and we are back