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The Underwear in My Shoe

The Underwear in My Shoe

by Brett Russo

★★★★★ 4.8 · 329 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in Reproductive Medicine & Technology

About This Book

After another call from the fertility clinic reporting negative test results, Brett Russo started to panic. Unrecognizable to herself after countless rounds of unsuccessful IVF, she felt like a failure to herself, a disappointment to her husband, and the only female on Facebook without kids.At thirty-eight, Brett had a great career and a loving partner. But when they decided to start a family, her success story took a turn. She quickly learned that the answer to when she was having kids wasn’t as simple as she once thought.In The Underwear in My Shoe, Brett takes you on her journey through IVF, a story of personal struggle and isolation mixed with humor. She shows you that only when she truly lost herself did she discover her inner strength and a sisterhood in the other women going through IVF—discoveries that changed her forever.

Memoir Health Healthcare and Medicine
Brett Russo

Brett Russo

Brett Russo was born and raised in New Jersey and earned a degree in business management from Bucknell University. She serves as chief executive officer of her family's printing company alongside her twin brother and father. After marrying her husband in 2015, she went through a difficult IVF journey that became the subject of her memoir, The Underwear in My Shoe: My Journey Through IVF, Unfiltered. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their son.

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