Baby comes first for Fi

FIONA Falkiner has detailed the “really quite traumatic” process of undergoing IVF treatment.

The former Biggest Loser contestant and host has opened up about her fertility journey in a new podcast with partner Hayley Willis.

The podcast, What the IVF?, is released today. “Obviously you have your partner but it can actually feel like a really lonely process,” Falkiner said. “It is you and your body against all odds. Women don’t really talk about it until after the fact. It can be really quite traumatic.” The couple were due to get married this year but have pushed the date back due to coronavirus and to give themselves time to try for a baby. They both want to carry a child, although with Falkiner aged 37 she will go first.

“Fi is going first because she is older,” Willis, 30, laughed. “I really want to carry a bub too but Fi will go first just because of the body clock.

“I will give it a crack after we have our first child.”

Falkiner added: “Our hope is that once I fall pregnant we don’t want to wait too long, we want to have the babies quite close to each other.”

Issues they will discuss in the podcast include the medical procedure itself, as well as subjects such as cost, counselling, egg freezing and known donor versus unknown donor.

“People don’t really talk about the trials and hurdles that you go through as women to be a mum,” Willis said. “It is one of those big things in life we certainly have a better appreciation for now.”