Claire Mullen: Getting Pregnant with the IUD

"They say that, you know, one in a million people will get pregnant when they have an IUD—but it happened to me." Executive producer of this podcast, Claire Mullen, shares her own life-changing experience with the IUD and why she got involved in this project. In the conversation, Mullen and "Blackfishing the IUD" host, Caren Beilin, discuss how the IUD suddenly changed both of their lives and profoundly affected them, specifically in ways that made them both want to make work around it. "The more I talked about it," says Mullen, "the more I realized that there were other women in my life who had gotten pregnant with an IUD." The two discuss gossip, betrayal, experiences in doctor's offices, and the stereotype of the paranoid, hypochondriac woman. "Regardless of whether it's happened to you or not, I just don't think we talk about it enough. And that's what it's changed in my life, I've been much more open to talking about those kinds of things."