Endo Battery
Endo Battery
Alanna
What happens when motherhood and chronic illness collide, and how do we turn that into advocacy?
41 minutes Posted Oct 8, 2025 at 10:00 am.
Parenting with Chronic Illness
Introducing Indobattery and Nikki
Pregnancy, Loss, and Medical Gaslighting
Kids Seeing Pain and Inheriting Fear
Homeschooling While Managing Symptoms
Surgery, Healing, and Self‑Grace
Identity, Comparison, and Motherhood Guilt
Teaching Kids to Self‑Advocate
From Patient to Advocate
Educating Medical Students
Outdated Research and Individualized Care
Pushing GI and Primary Care to Consider Endo
Writing Doctors and Seeking Change
Building Community: Endofriend and Campus Outreach
Making Endo a Household Word
Many Paths to Advocacy
The Power of Support and Belonging
Closing Reflections and Gratitude
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Send us a text with a question or thought on this episode ( We cannot replay from this link) We explore the hard edges of parenting with endometriosis—pregnancy losses, grief, guilt, and the small wins that keep us going—and how those experiences drove us into advocacy that meets medicine where it starts: in classrooms. Along the way we talk kids’ questions, self‑grace, and building real community support. • balancing parenting with chronic pain and fatigue • pregnancy, miscarriage, and fear...