Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has repeatedly told the story of him and his wife, Gwen Walz, struggling to have children and turning to fertility treatments for help.
On Tuesday, Gwen Walz offered more detail, specifying that they did not use in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
In a statement from the Democratic presidential campaign, Gwen Walz said she and her husband used a process called intrauterine insemination ― and that they hadn’t told anybody except a next-door neighbor about what they were going through.
“She was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process,” Gwen Walz said. “I’d rush home from school, and she would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track. Many of our closest family and friends were surprised when we shared these experiences so many years later.”
In public comments, Tim Walz has usually brought up his own family’s infertility in the context of IVF without specifying that they used IVF, instead…