IVFU

Schoolteacher Melissa talks frankly about forging her own unique path to motherhood as a single Black woman in the white-centric world of fertility. You'll hear how Melissa's experience with premature ovarian syndrome has given her a crash course in infertility, trying to become a single mom by choice, Black sperm and egg donors, the cost of IVF and fertility treatments, and the value of getting fertility support and medical info from a doctor who listens to you.

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Robin Hopkins and Jaimie Kelton, creator/hosts of award-winning podcast If These Ovaries Could Talk, don't hold back about the unique challenges, dark moments, and hilarious swings of queer family-making, including reciprocal IVF, the different parenting roles of lesbian moms, the hunt for a sperm donor, donor siblings, infertility support, and more.

Check out Robin & Jaimie's award-winning podcast (and their

book of the same name) If These Ovaries Could Talk at www.ovariestalk.com.

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Get more info on IVFU and download our theme song "Freak in

Love" at www.ivfupodcast.com.

Keep up with the latest IVFU updates and special announcements!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Donate to help IVFU keep going at Venmo.com/ivfupodcast and PayPal.me/ivfupodcast.

Get in touch! Email us your thoughts, questions and transcript

requests at [email protected].

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That's right, friends, IVFU is back with all new stories about making a family the new-fashioned way. Subscribe and share and tune in Sept. 15 for episode 1 of Season 2.

Get more info on IVFU and download our theme song "Freak in

Love" at www.ivfupodcast.com.

Keep up with the latest IVFU updates and special announcements!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Donate to help IVFU keep going at Venmo.com/ivfupodcast and PayPal.me/ivfupodcast.

Get in touch! Email us your thoughts, questions and transcript

requests at [email protected].

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In one complete live story, Sam brings you on a journey through her years of fertility fails, giving up, going forward, getting a huge gift, and starting on a path to surrogacy – only to meet the greatest surprise of all once Darwyn was finally in her arms.

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Season finale: Hear Sam & Kaylee's postpartum secrets and surprises. Kaylee and Sam reconvene after Darwyn's birth to discuss the adventure they've shared, confess what they were both thinking in the hospital, and explore the surprising secrets of motherhood no one ever talks about.

For episode transcripts and to download our theme song, “Freak in Love,” visit ivfupodcast.com

For more information about Sam’s live stories, performances and music please visit samshaber.com

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Meet Kaylee as she's 8 months pregnant with Sam's son, Darwyn. Is that weird? Yes and no. They talk about their paths to this moment, their relationship to each other and the baby, and the who, what and why of carrying someone else's child.

For episode transcripts and to download our theme song, “Freak in Love,” visit ivfupodcast.com

For more information about Sam’s live stories, performances and music please visit samshaber.com

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Hear Dr. Luk's IVF insights. Sam talks candidly with her first fertility specialist, Dr. Janelle Luk of Generation Next Fertility, about her personal journey to being an REI, what makes a great doctor, and why we can't just make tons of babies easily, the way rabbits do, dammit.

For episode transcripts and to download our theme song, “Freak in Love,” visit ivfupodcast.com

For more information about Sam’s live stories, performances and music please visit samshaber.com

We want to hear from you! Send your comments, questions, and stories to [email protected]

For more information on Dr Janelle Luk visit Generation Next Fertility and follow her on Instagram

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Hear Kathleen's transracial adoption story. What happens when you know you want to adopt, but no one wants you back? Maybe you wind up finding the perfect match in a child who is nothing like you.

To read Kathleen's blog about parenting visit thisoldmom.com. 

For Kathleen's essays about transracial parenting:

I Racially Profiled My Black Child – This Old Mom

Why Am I Brown? – This Old Mom

How Does A White Mom Explain Michael Jackson to Her Black Child? – This Old Mom

For episode transcripts and to download our theme song, “Freak in Love,” visit ivfupodcast.com

For more information about Sam’s live stories, performances and music please visit samshaber.com

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Therapist Savannah keeps us sane. Sam talks with her own therapist, Savannah, whose specialty in infertility issues stems from her own journey to have a child through egg donation. Together, they unpack the emotional minefield of infertility - a minefield that's different for every person who walks through it.

Savannah Sanfield is a marriage and family therapist, certified parent coach and maternal mental health specialist. She supports post and preconception families (prenatal to 6 years) as they tackle both common and complex parenting challenges. She is also the proud mother of dragons… err that is, twins.

For episode transcripts and to download our theme song, “Freak in Love,” visit ivfupodcast.com

For more information about Sam’s live stories, performances and music please visit samshaber.com

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Dive into Maureen's solo IVF quest and activism. Social worker Maureen could only be described with one word: resilient. Okay, two words: resilient and hilarious. Somehow, between doing IVF as a single woman, navigating sperm banks, egg donors and the cost of it all, she still finds the strength to lobby for IVF health coverage at the state capitol.

For episode transcripts and to download our theme song, “Freak in Love,” visit ivfupodcast.com

For more information about Sam’s live stories, performances and music please visit samshaber.com

We want to hear from you! Send your comments, questions, and stories to [email protected]

For more information on Resolve visit resolve.org

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