Women's Wellness with Abbe Feder

In this week’s crossover episode, Abbe (host of The Fertility Chick podcast), Ali (host of infertile AF podcast) & Elizabeth (host of Creation Innovation podcast) chat pop-culture and infertility.

As infertility becomes more talked about in tv and the news, what shows get it right? Where do we still need more support and stories shared?

How can we ensure the narrative feels authentic? And when it doesn’t is it just plain fun to laugh at?

We hope this is the start of several of these episodes on theme. We’d love to know:

What are you favorite pod culture infertility reference? Share with us for a ch ace to be featured when we do this again.

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In this feed drop, I introduce the podcast 3 in 30, a show with 3 actionable takeaways in every 30-minute episode because you are a busy mom with a full schedule and an even fuller brain. Listen to host Rachel Nielson as she shares her journey to motherhood, including both adoption and IVF.

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This week, Abbe is joined by Dr. Jennifer Hintzsche, the founder of PherDal. Once Dr. Jennifer was diagnosed as "infertile" she made it her mission to find some answers...

Together, they talk about:

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This week, Abbe is joined by Emily Patel, Founder and President of the Hopeful Mama Foundation. In this episode, Emily shares about her experience with infertility starting at the early age of 25 years old.

Emily opens up about:

You can learn more about Hopeful Mama here!

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This week, Abbe is joined by the Executive Director of Maternal Mental Health Now, Kelly O'Conner. MMHN supports the the well-being of growing families and offers access to care, stigma reduction and training + technical assistance.

In this episode, Abbe and Kelly talk about:

You can learn more about Maternal Mental Health Now here:

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This week, Abbe is joined by Journalist and Endometriosis Advocate Diana Falzone. Diana was surprisingly diagnosed with endometriosis and infertility in 2016. A year later she began to volunteer for EndoFound. And in 2020, Diana joined the Foundation as EndoTV's Executive Producer and host, and serves as an EndoFound Ambassador.

In this episode, they talk about:

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This week, Abbe is joined by Becca Tobin, co-host of the hit podcast Lady Gang, former Glee cast member, and open surrogacy advocate. Together, they talk about Becca's pregnancy journey and the ups and down that came with it.

What you hear on this episode:

1. Becca's personal journey with miscarriages and surrogacy

2. What it's like to terminate a pregnancy

3. Dealing with IVF injections & transfers

4. Finding the right surrogacy agency for you

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Instagram: @thefertilitychick @abbefeder @incirclefertility @becca @theladygang

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This week, Abbe is joined by Julie Eshelman, a Military Spouse and IVF Advocate to talk about her experience with infertility. Currently, her family is facing uncertainty over having another child via IVF after Alabama’s new Supreme Court ruling.

Together they talk about:

    1    Advocating for all family building with Resolve

    2    Julie's complicated (and spread out) journey to parenthood

    3    How to walk through pregnancy loss

    4    Founding Building Military Families Network

To advocate with Julie or Abbe check out Resolve.org

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This week, Abbe is joined by Rachel Simkin, an altruistic surrogate for friends struggling to build their family . Hear how Rachel, an occupational therapist, knew she wanted to go this route. And how she arrived at the right family.

In this episode Rachel talks about:

1 What it's like to be a surrogate

2 How being a surrogate affected her own family

3 The decision to go the private surrogacy path

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This week, Abbe covers the outrageous Alabama ruling about frozen embryos being considered "children." At this moment, at least three Alabama clinics have paused certain IVF operations for the time being due to legal concerns.

Hear how this ruling is impacting the infertility community.

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