Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
Lauren Bongiorno is a Nationally Board Certified Health Coach and the founder and CEO of Risely Health. Featured on the TODAY show and other media outlets, Risely helps people and families impacted by Type 1 Diabetes take ownership over their health so they can transform their life with more freedom and confidence. Lauren has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 7 years old and has experienced firsthand that when health transforms, so does everything else - our relationships, our time, our career, our families, and, most importantly, ourselves. Each week she will bring you lessons from her own personal diabetes experience, strategies that are key to understanding your body’s patterns, and guests who will speak to everything from advances in technology to all things hormones, exercise, relationships, and mindset. All of this so that over time, you TOO can reclaim your rise.
Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
246. IVF & Pregnancy With Type 1 Diabetes: What the Process Actually Looks Like ( ft. Jenna Ciszon)
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What does going through IVF look like when you’re also managing type 1 diabetes?
In this episode, Lauren sits down with Risely Coach Jenna Ciszon, who has lived with T1D for 36 years and went through a years-long journey of trying to start a family before eventually turning to IVF.
Jenna shares what it took to bring her A1C from 7.9 to 6.1 before starting IVF, what two weeks of hormone injections and an egg retrieval looked like with T1D, and the rare complication that left her hospitalized for five days. She also opens up about miscarriage, navigating embryo transfers, and the mental and physical toll of managing T1D through an already demanding fertility journey.
Now a mom of two and a Risely coach who works with women preparing for and navigating pregnancy, Jenna looks back on what she wishes she had known before starting the process and why having support from people who understood both T1D and pregnancy would have changed so much for her.
WHAT WE COVER:
- What it took for Jenna to bring her A1C from 7.9 to 6.1 before she could start IVF
- The rare complication after Jenna’s egg retrieval that led to five days in the hospital and nine abdominal drains
- What happened after Jenna’s first embryo transfer and how she prepared to try again
- What changed when Jenna started Risely coaching at 16 weeks pregnant after more than 30 years of managing T1D largely on her own
- What Jenna wishes she had done differently before trying to get pregnant with T1D
- The T1D skills Jenna now wants women to have BEFORE pregnancy instead of figuring them out once they’re already pregnant
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