*NBC correspondent Yamiche Alcindor penned a personal essay in TODAY announcing her pregnancy after years of IVF treatments.
“It is the most incredible, exciting, life-affirming thing for me […] especially because it comes after years of disappointment, ugly crying, and carrying around a deep sense of shame that my body couldn’t do what everyone else’s body seemed to do so easily,” she wrote for TODAY.com.
“For the past four years, I have been feverishly chasing motherhood — hoping, and praying, and deeply wanting more than anything else in this world to be pregnant and to bring home a healthy baby. All this, while desperately willing my way through rounds and rounds of IVF and pressing forward through wild, rocky news cycles that required me to look and sound calm,” she explained.
Alcindor gets candid in the essay about her four-year journey to conceive a child and the “shame” she felt having to use IVF.
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“There was a deep shame that I had to use science to help my body have a baby,” she wrote.
“It helped that so many women have been transparent about their journeys and all the different ways people arrive at motherhood,” Alcindor continued. “But still, there were so many nights when I cried myself to sleep feeling a deep sense of resentment at my reality.”
Alcindor said she is speaking directly to women “whose path to motherhood has hit speed bumps, potholes, roadblocks and detour signs that have forced you on a winding, painful journey.”
Alcindor and her husband, Nathaniel Cline, are reportedly expecting baby boy in June.
“I cannot wait to teach him about how much his mother and father loved him into existence and waited years to hold him in our arms,” she wrote.
Alcindor host hopes that by sharing her story, she can provide “both comfort to those still in the struggle to get to motherhood, and affirmation for those whose paths have left deep scars.”
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