Jun 16, 2026 · 37 min · 13 segments
Brad and Alyssa tried for three years to have a baby. After multiple miscarriages, five failed IVF embryo transfers and a diagnosis of "unexplained infertility", they eventually turned to surrogacy…
Julia WinstonHostBrad TuckerGuest
Brad and Alyssa met during college when they were both studying abroad in London.
After graduating, they moved to New York, got married in 2018, and started thinking about having kids.
Our lives are pretty hectic.
Radworks and live music.
I was working in a classroom for a long time.
So we just had these very full schedules, opposite schedules.
And we both knew we wanted children, but we weren't really sure how it was going to fit into the equation.
I think it was really at the pandemic when things slowed down where we thought, well, if life was like this a little bit, we see how children could factor into this, how we could have kids, not just be working and so busy all the time.
So that was very early in 2020 when we kind of decided that now was the time to start.
In April 2020, Alyssa got pregnant for the first time, but she miscarried in the first trimester.
Their doctor suggested they try IUI, a cheaper, less invasive way to artificially inseminate.
Alyssa would have to inject herself daily with hormones, do rounds of invasive egg retrievals, and she and Brad would pay a hefty price tag for all the procedures.
But Alyssa dove in head first, all in the hopes of transferring an embryo that would lead to a full-term pregnancy.
We were able to create a lot of healthy embryos, like high-graded embryos.
But again, my body was still rejecting the healthy embryos.
It's still considered unexplained infertility, which makes it even more frustrating.
They all failed.
The last embryo transfer, we put two embryos in to try to change the environment of my uterus, and that also failed.
Brad and Alyssa met during college when they were both studying abroad in London.
After graduating, they moved to New York, got married in 2018, and started thinking about having kids.
Our lives are pretty hectic.
Radworks and live music.
I was working in a classroom for a long time.
So we just had these very full schedules, opposite schedules.
And we both knew we wanted children, but we weren't really sure how it was going to fit into the equation.
I think it was really at the pandemic when things slowed down where we thought, well, if life was like this a little bit, we see how children could factor into this, how we could have kids, not just be working and so busy all the time.
So that was very early in 2020 when we kind of decided that now was the time to start.
In April 2020, Alyssa got pregnant for the first time, but she miscarried in the first trimester.
Their doctor suggested they try IUI, a cheaper, less invasive way to artificially inseminate.
Alyssa would have to inject herself daily with hormones, do rounds of invasive egg retrievals, and she and Brad would pay a hefty price tag for all the procedures.
But Alyssa dove in head first, all in the hopes of transferring an embryo that would lead to a full-term pregnancy.
We were able to create a lot of healthy embryos, like high-graded embryos.
But again, my body was still rejecting the healthy embryos.
It's still considered unexplained infertility, which makes it even more frustrating.
They all failed.
The last embryo transfer, we put two embryos in to try to change the environment of my uterus, and that also failed.
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