1029 | Fertility 101: Everything You Need to Know About Having Babies After 35 with Dr. Lucky Sekhon

Rachel Hollis (0:00)

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Hi guys, it's Rach. Just jumping in ahead of today's conversation to introduce you to today's guests. Dr. Lucky is a double board certified reproductive endocrinologist and an infertility specialist at RMA of New York. She has helped thousands of women and couples navigate everything from infertility to IVF to egg freezing and family planning. She's been featured on CBS, NBC, 60 Minutes and in Vogue, and she's the author of a book called The Lucky Egg, which is literally the encyclopedia for anybody who is thinking about getting pregnant. I asked Dr. Lucky if she would be willing to come on and let me ask a thousand questions on your behalf. If you are over 35 and you want to have a baby, whether that's right now or in the future, there's a really strong chance that you've probably heard some pretty scary statistics about fertility.

I'm guessing that if you've heard those statistics, it can be really scary trying to figure out what to do. I wanted to bring in an expert who could answer all the questions and walk me and you through the process, of what it looks like to get pregnant after 35 For instance, is 35 really the magic number? Is 40 too late to freeze your eggs? What should you actually be doing to give yourself the best possible chance of having a healthy pregnancy? Whether you are actively trying to get pregnant, thinking about having a baby in your late 30s or 40s, or you just better want to understand how fertility actually works, this conversation is filled with information that I think you're really going to appreciate. This is my conversation with Dr. Lucky Sekhon.

I have about 100 questions for you, and I would love to just start if the audience is listening to this, and they are not familiar with your work, if they don't follow you on social like I do, will you tell them who you are and all about what you do?

Dr. Lucky Sekhon (3:47)

Yeah, of course. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to be having this conversation with you. I'm Dr. Lucky Sekhon. People call me Dr. Lucky. It's easy to remember. I am a practicing double board certified OBGYN and reproductive endocrinologist, and infertility expert. Aren't you glad that you made me say that? It's a mouthful.

I'm also the author of the bestseller, the national bestselling book, The Lucky Egg, which is essentially like a guide to all things fertility. People are calling it a fertility Bible. I'm also the co-host of the Call Your Doctor podcast, which came out this year. It's me and one of my best friends who's also an OBGYN, and we focus on everything from fertility to menopause and all that comes in between.

That's me in a nutshell. My mission is to really close the fertility knowledge gap, because most people don't know how their bodies work, and they don't know everything they really should know to be able to make informed decisions along the way.

Rachel Hollis (4:46)

Absolutely.

I feel like I am one of those people. I was telling you before we started recording today that this is not something I have a ton of information on, so I'm going to be the audience today, and I'm going to ask you a thousand questions that I think she might ask you if she was sitting here with you in person. But I would love to start with, this is going to sound so silly, but when I started my journey with perimenopause, I truly did not understand how my hormones work. I did not understand how anything was supposed to function, and I feel like that's probably an important piece when we talk about fertility is, is it possible for you to explain, you don't have to go into all the details, but on a really basic level, what is happening that allows someone to get pregnant, and when it comes to the fertility journey, how is that different? I'm sure there's a hundred different ways that can be different.