Erin Foster Opens Up About Undergoing IVF Over 20 Times: ‘Nobody Wants to Be Doing’ It (Exclusive)

“I started my family younger and it all looked different but where I’m at now, I maybe would’ve done it differently,” Sara says. “I maybe would’ve frozen eggs. I mean, I still can but I just think at the end of the day, without IVF, so many families wouldn’t be complete and so many same-sex couples. Many couples have a really hard time getting pregnant.”

“This should be something that everyone openly talks about. And Erin’s been really open about it and it’s helped other women feel okay to also feel open about it. And these T-shirts, we want you to wear them proudly. You’re an IVF family, it’s a beautiful thing.”

Erin, who welcomed her daughter Noa in May with husband Simon Tikhman, was pregnant when the filming began for her hit Netflix series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. Because she’d been trying for so long to get pregnant, the proud mom says she was a little nervous and on edge while making the show.

“I mean look, it was hard. I was really sick when I was in the writer’s room and I was puking in my trash can in my office,” she remembers. “And like a bagel and cream cheese was the only thing I could eat.”

“So being as busy as I was, being on set and working 12-hour days, yes it was physically challenging but it was kind of mentally fantastic because I was too distracted and too busy to worry all the time,” Erin says.

She tells PEOPLE that there was one coping mechanism she did lean into, even though many people told her not to do it.

“I was one of those people who against everybody’s advice bought the little doppler,” she says. “I was told vehemently do not get this because it’s sometimes hard to find the heartbeat and you panic. I got it anyways, I found the heartbeat all the time.”

“I took her heartbeat every single night without fail. If Simon was traveling, I would send him a video of her heartbeat. I was nervous. So being really busy, I was honestly too tired, distracted to stress every day about if she was surviving and it was a gift.”