What if your path to motherhood didn’t look anything like you expected… but led you exactly where you were meant to be?

In this deeply moving and expansive conversation, I sit down with Alexandra Dominguez—an adoptee, adoptive mother, IVF mom, and now a guide for alternative family building—to explore the many paths to becoming a parent.

We met by chance at the gym (proof that synchronistic connections are all around), and from the moment Alexandra began sharing her story, I knew it needed to be heard.

Her journey spans IUI, unexplained infertility, adoption, a devastating disrupted adoption, IVF success, and now embryo donation—a full-circle story that highlights the complexity, grief, trust, and beauty of building a family in non-traditional ways.

This episode is for anyone navigating fertility challenges and wondering: Which path is right for me?

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Alexandra’s experience with unexplained infertility and PCOS
• Why she chose to step away from fertility treatments and pursue adoption
• The emotional reality of a failed/disrupted adoption (and how she moved through it)
• The powerful moment that led her to her son just one month later
• How her body shifted after becoming a mom—and led her back to IVF
• Her IVF journey, including retrieval, OHSS, and a successful first transfer
• The importance of listening to your body and intuition on your fertility path
• The financial and emotional realities of adoption vs. IVF
• What it means to donate embryos—and her decision to give her remaining embryos to a close friend
• The concept of compassionate embryo transfer
• Why community and support are everything during fertility and adoption journeys
• Her new work helping others navigate IVF, adoption, surrogacy, and alternative family building

Connect with Alexandra:

Alexandra is now supporting individuals and couples as they navigate their own paths to parenthood through her work in alternative family building.

You can connect with her on Instagram:
@SonrisaFamilyBuilding

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