The Journey to Writing My Fertility Book

As a Woman

Natalie Crawford

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Natalie Crawford discusses her journey in writing a fertility book, highlighting her personal infertility experiences and career transitions from emergency medicine to reproductive endocrinology. She shares the challenges of securing a book deal, including multiple rejections and the eventual success with a two-auction process. The book, titled "The Fertility Formula," focuses on natural fertility, lifestyle impacts, and inflammation. Natalie answers your questions in FFS - For Fertility's Sake What are your thoughts on vitex? What questions should I ask at my first fertility visit? What's the difference between the mini pill and the regular pill? Want to receive my weekly newsletter? Sign up at nataliecrawfordmd.com/newsletter to receive updates, Q&A, special content and my FREE TTC Starter Kit and Vegan Starter Guide! Don't forget to ask your questions on Instagram for next week’s For Fertility’s Sake segment when you see the question box on Natalie’s page @nataliecrawfordmd. You can also ask a question by calling in and leaving a voicemail. Call 657–229–3672 and ask your fertility question today! Thanks to our amazing sponsors! Check out these deals just for you: Quince- Go to Quince.com/aaw for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Ritual-Go to ritual.com/aaw to start Ritual or add Essential For Women 18+ to your subscription today. Calm - Go to calm.com/aaw for 40% off unlimited access to Calm’s entire library. AquaTru - Go to aquatru.com and use code AAW for 20% off! If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow the podcast to be notified of new episodes every Sunday. Plus, be sure to follow along on Instagram @nataliecrawfordmd, check out Natalie's YouTube channel Natalie Crawford MD, and if you're interested in becoming a patient, check out Fora Fertility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to as a woman, fertility hormones and beyond. I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford,
0:11.8	and I am a board certified OBGYN and fertility physician and also co-founder of Fora fertility in Austin, Texas.
0:19.0	Each week on this podcast, I discuss health and fertility and how they relate to your true
0:23.5	self.
0:24.4	Become a part of the community of collaboration that amplifies others as a woman.
0:29.2	I hope you enjoy the episode.
0:36.4	Hi, friends.
0:37.4	I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford. This podcast exists so that you can learn about
0:41.7	your health hormones, fertility, and how to be a better steward of your health, a better owner of your
0:47.6	body, and essentially how to advocate for your own fertility, your hormone journey to the best
0:53.0	of your ability. Today's episode is going to be a
0:56.8	little bit different. I'm going to be talking about my journey, educating in this space and
1:02.8	essentially writing a book, which has been such an eye-opening experience and I get asked a lot
1:07.0	of questions about it. There will be some fertility tidbits in here because that's
1:11.0	essential to why I'm even writing a book. And I just want to say hugely, thanks to all of you,
1:16.8	your support on this podcast and listening and downloading and sharing it has gotten it in
1:21.8	medical school curriculums and shared so broadly has gotten me appearing on really huge big name podcasts like Huberman
1:29.5	Lab and Diary of a CEO. And as you see or you'll hear, your support has been invaluable
1:37.3	and crucial to the journey of this book. So thank you so so much. Before we dive in a few things,
1:45.6	I will answer a few fertility questions at the end of the episode. So you can ask those questions
1:49.6	at Natalie Crawford-MD over on Instagram on Monday. Every Monday we put up a question box and we
1:56.0	take some of your questions, redirect to their content or answer it. We also save questions
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