What To Expect When You're Injecting by Fiercely Infertile – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Dr. Chandrika Parmar fearlessly tackles the fertility questions that keep patients awake at night but too embarrassed to ask out loud. As Director of Genea Fertility Melbourne City, she dives into collection room etiquette, post-procedure intimacy, and whether naming your embryos is totally normal (spoiler: it is). With her clinical expertise, refreshing candour, and drawing from her years of experience as a gynaecologist and fertility specialist, Dr. Parmar creates a judgment-free zone where nothing is off limits, proving that the questions that make you blush are often the ones that matter most.

This episode is proudly supported by Genea Fertility Melbourne City

Shannon and Jared Baker's four-year fertility journey is a testament to resilience, love, and never giving up on their dream of parenthood. Facing the dual challenge of azoospermia and endometriosis, this determined couple navigated two micro TESA surgeries, seven egg collections, and nine embryo transfers across three different clinics before welcoming their beautiful baby boy through donor conception. As OG listeners of the podcast from the very beginning of their journey, Shannon and Jared's conversation offers honest insights into the practical and emotional aspects of a long fertility journey. With Jared joining the conversation to offer a male perspective on the challenges men face during fertility treatment, their story explores the emotional complexity of moving from own gametes to donor conception, the physical and mental toll of multiple procedures, and how they maintained hope and their relationship through years of setbacks. From clinic changes to travel adventures that kept their spirits alive, their story reminds us that sometimes the path to parenthood looks different than we imagined, but the destination - holding your longed-for baby - makes every step worthwhile.

Meet Emily O'Donohoe, an avid listener to now a welcome guest on the show, here sharing her raw and honest journey through the complexities of secondary infertility. Emily's story is one that so many of you will relate to - from the joy of her first successful pregnancy after an ectopic, to the devastating loss of miscarriage, and now navigating the confusing world of unexplained secondary infertility. This conversation dives deep into the unique challenges of secondary infertility - the guilt, the isolation, the assumptions others make when you already have one child. We explore how different this journey feels, how the medical system treats you differently, and why 'at least you have one' cuts deeper than people realise. Emily's honesty about the emotional toll, the impact on her existing child, and the way secondary infertility reshapes your entire family dynamic is both heartbreaking and healing. Sometimes the second chapter of your fertility story is harder than the first. Emily's courage in sharing reminds us all that every journey matters, every struggle is valid, and community is everything.

Sometimes us ladies can get caught up in the world of scans, injections, collections and more. But remember, on most occasions it takes two to tango. On this episode we chat to Mike Daily, a dad who’s been riding shotgun next to his wife through IVF for many many years. We chat heartache, marriage, miscarriage and also delve into friendship as well. Oh and it’s beer o’clock.. it’d be rude not to. 

They don’t call it the infertility rollercoaster for nothing. There is a concurrent experience of loss and hope — and they're happening simultaneously. For many couples, it’s the first time they’ve both been emotionally and psychologically challenged at the same time. With infertility patients experiencing more symptoms of anxiety and depression than fertile individuals, I sat down with Psychologist Sandra Lam to talk about coping and communication.  

For some couples, being deemed infertile before medical tests even commence can be a hard label to carry. For Michele and Kylie, their road to motherhood has been filled with heartbreak and success. This episode follows their journey through 14 transfers including multiple rounds of IUI, IVF, 2 miscarriages, severe OHSS and creating their two children.  The Australian wives delve into the world of IVF for same-sex couples and their clinic experiences over the past 7 years. They're modern mums with a love story like no other and the conversation is raw, authentic and inspiring. 

It's pretty easy to tell when someone loves what they do, especially with our next guest. Dr Tamara Hunter is a leading fertility specialist and gynaecologist in Perth, specialising in women's health issues. She's even been on her own infertility journey,  becoming a mum both spontaneously and through IVF. When it comes to fertility protocols, there is no one size fits all approach. In this episode, Dr Hunter explains why looking at the full picture and the person as whole, (rather than just their reproductive parts) can make all the difference.   This episode is proudly supported by Fertility Specialists of WA. 

This is an unfiltered, unscripted and uncensored conversation between husband and wife about how infertility affects us as a family unit. It's one thing to chat to your other half over a cup of tea in the living room, but it's another thing to have an unfiltered recorded conversation where nothing is off limits. This episode is dedicated to all the partners on the journey with us. To my husband, thank you. 

With all the hardships of suffering from infertility, you can’t just focus on the struggle. Sometimes we just need to take the best of a bad situation and think of the upside. On this episode it’s clinic confidential, tales from an anonymous source.  Boners, masterbation, sex and awkward conversations. Though there are obviously soul-crushing parts to the infertility process, sometimes you need a laugh to stop you from crying. Enjoy the journey and reminisce about the lighter moments because hey..... wanking stories can be funny.  

For young women, the first milestone towards motherhood is getting your period. But, imagine getting your period at 12 and then hitting menopause a year later. For Amanda Princi that was the reality she had to face within the first year of becoming teenager. Told she would never be able to have children, she never gave up hope on becoming a mum. Fast forward to today and she’s living proof that you don't need to have "everything working" for everything to work out in the end and sometimes it takes 3 people to make a family.