00:00You spend your whole life going,
00:01oh my gosh, I hope I'm not pregnant, oh my gosh.
00:04And then, when you're like, okay, now, it's no problem,
00:07then it's like, erp.
00:08My name is Glozell Green,
00:10and I'm here to talk about infertility, dun, dun, dun.
00:15Ooh, we shouldn't talk about it, but we going to.
00:17We are going to.
00:23When I first decided that I wanted to get pregnant
00:26and it wasn't happening, I decided, okay,
00:28I needed up my wheat grass.
00:30I was going to Whole Foods all the time,
00:32make sure you get more greens.
00:33I got V-steams.
00:34What's a V-steam?
00:35That's when you sit on like this pot
00:37and steam is going right in the crotch of my...
00:39Yoni egg.
00:41Some people believe in like crystals,
00:44you know, that gives you certain energy.
00:46Well, it's like, it's a crystal that's shaped like an egg,
00:48and you insert it,
00:50and then you're like right where the issue is.
00:54Do you understand what I'm saying?
00:55I'm trying not to be graphic.
00:56And I'm telling people what I'm doing,
00:57and some people are like,
00:58oh yeah, you need to do that other energy.
00:59And some people are like, what are you doing?
01:00That's crazy, all you need to do is pray.
01:03Then, of course, my mom's like,
01:04well, Halle Berry had a baby at over 40.
01:06I'm like, I'll just go to a fertility doctor.
01:11Well, she was saying that, oh, no, I can't help you.
01:15You're too far along with your,
01:16I think you have endometriosis, let's test for that.
01:20Yes, you do, which means like,
01:22basically your body parts are kind of fusing together.
01:24What?
01:25You see, I thought it was fat.
01:26That's just like this right here.
01:27That's just all endometriosis.
01:30So I'm like, well, thank you.
01:31That's not just fat.
01:32That's the first doctor.
01:33And the second doctor was the same thing.
01:35The third doctor doesn't look like
01:36we're going to be able to help you.
01:38And he suggested a surrogate.
01:44The IVF process for me was always to be able to get some eggs
01:49to put into a surrogate.
01:50The doctor gives me shots, and they're trying to,
01:53because most people, you know, you have one egg.
01:55They want you to grow multiple eggs, so you have more chances.
02:00You're taking your shots, and they're upping the shots,
02:02and then you have to go get your sonograms,
02:04and they're checking to make sure that your follicles are growing.
02:08I did that six times, so that's six months worth of taking hormones.
02:12And a lot of people are scared of shots.
02:14But if you trying to get pregnant,
02:16it isn't being pregnant a whole lot more intense
02:19than just giving shots.
02:20We talk to them, and pushing, and all the stuff coming out,
02:24and sometimes you poop, and then you pee,
02:25and you know, there's people there,
02:27and you're just like, you know,
02:29and you're not looking the cutest.
02:31I call it my eggs, green eggs,
02:33and I call my husband ham, you know, so green eggs and ham.
02:36They put that together, and they make the embryo, okay?
02:39So that's the potential baby.
02:41And they put that inside the uterus.
02:44Now that can go inside my uterus,
02:46or in my case, it went inside my surrogate's uterus.
02:50Thank you for your uterus.
02:55The feeling that I felt when I finally found the surrogate
02:59was pure joy and ecstasy.
03:01I was excited that someone was willing to do this.
03:05Like, would I do that for someone?
03:06Would I carry someone's key?
03:08But nine months, I mean, it takes a special person.
03:11When I met her, she said, well, you know,
03:14I'll play your videos to my stomach
03:17so the baby will hear your voice.
03:19And when she said that, I'm like,
03:20I love her so much.
03:22I love her so much.
03:26We put two embryos in and one took, and we're going to have a little girl come on, okay?
03:34Fertility is very expensive.
03:36Like, my baby right now is on layaway.
03:38You know, like, I got a payment plan.
03:40When you don't talk about something, you think that you're the only person that's going through it.
03:46We need to break the wall down.
03:48I'm glad to be one of the ones.
03:49I didn't want to be one of the ones, you know?
03:51I wouldn't mind supporting somebody else.
03:53And I have, like, all my kids, but it didn't work out like that.
03:56So if I'm going through this, and maybe someone else is going through this,
04:01and I don't mind telling the story, don't give up.
