This is Fertility

Guest: Maia Brown, President of The Beltane Guild Host: Dan Bulger, Progyny

Firefighters face physical and emotional challenges at work, but what about when they're facing challenges with fertility?

In this episode we hear from Maia Brown, a firefighter paramedic and president of The Beltane Guild, a nonprofit dedicated to firefighter reproductive health. Maia shares her deeply personal journey, from discovering diminished ovarian reserve in the middle of paramedic school, to undergoing IVF, to realizing how little support exists for firefighters facing fertility and family building challenges.

Now, through The Beltane Guild, Maia is helping fire departments nationwide create comprehensive reproductive health policies and offering grants to firefighters undergoing treatment.

She raises the question; can this job have an effect on our reproductive health? Firefighters are exposed to unique circumstances like stress, toxins, irregular sleep schedules and Maia has been partnering on groundbreaking research and resources to protect future generations of firefighters who see families in their futures.

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Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7fOu6C7p-h4

What is This is Fertility?

This is Fertility is a podcast by Progyny where we fuse narrative storytelling with experience and science to give you a new perspective on what it's really like to go through a family building journey.