Latest Ivfu Podcast Episodes
Season 2 Finale: Therapist Savannah Answers Your Questions
IVFU - November 24, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsTherapist and fertility/adoption expert Savannah Sanfield answers your questions about emotions, self-care, marriage during infertility, adoption, surrogacy, childfree living, third party reproduction, jealousy, resentment, self-image, self-hatred, RESOLVE.org insecurity, identity crises, co-dep...
From a Salsa Jar to My Son: Alix Olson's Alternative Road to Motherhood
IVFU - November 17, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWriter/activist/spoken word star Alix Olson has never been predictable, but no one is more surprised than she to realize how much it means to be a mother. Hear the origin story of her first son, born after her sperm donor made his contribution into a "well-rinsed Tostitos jar," and her shock at ...
Dynamic Do-Over: How Infertility Inspired a Mother and Daughter
IVFU - November 10, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsDaughter Nicole founded a surrogacy agency after her struggle with infertility, while her mother Pam launched the Baby Quest Foundation to award grants for fertility treatments to those who can't afford it. After struggling for years with infertility, through IVF, miscarriages, fertility treatme...
Facebook Groups: the Ultimate Love/Hate Affair
IVFU - November 03, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsFertility coach Oana Gharbi shares her story and strategies for coping with IVF, secondary infertility, hormones, protocols, pompous doctors, and sometimes, when it's best to stop and live your life. Having experienced her own personal pain and loss with the death of her first husband, then acut...
A Priest and a Rabbi Walk Into a Podcast
IVFU - October 27, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsReverend Julia Offinger, Associate Rector of Grace Church in New York City and Rabbi Rachel Brown, educational director of Temple Beth Shalom in Hudson, Ohio talk candidly with Sam about the roles of faith, love and grace in the struggle to make a family. It’s a rare chance to ask the direct que...
The Infertility Soda Machine – How IVF Changed Comedian Jay Palumbo
IVFU - October 20, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsComedian/writer/advocate Jennifer 'Jay' Palumbo talks openly about how infertility changed her career, her priorities and her marriage – and how she still comes out laughing. After grueling IVF treatments, embryo transfers, pregnancy fails and office baby showers, Jay finally had a successful pr...
Making It Legal: Tara's Queer Family Story
IVFU - October 13, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWriter, comedian and frequent host of The Moth Radio Hour, Tara Clancy talks candidly about the many hoops she and her first wife jumped through to become legal, lesbian moms, from fighting for insurance coverage as one of the earliest same-sex couples to do reciprocal IVF, to getting both paren...
Happy as a Family of Two (and No One Wants Your Ass-vice)
IVFU - October 06, 2021 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsResolve activist and fertility advocate Brooke Kingston shares the rewards of living child-free - and giving your dogs their own living room. Sam and Brooke talk openly about the possibilities for happiness and self-empowerment when choosing to live child-free after infertility, or "child-free n...
Two Dads Foster-to-Adopt Pt 2: The Greatest Reward of All
IVFU - September 29, 2021 07:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsChris and Jesse's second experience with fost-adopt was "a completely different rodeo," as they became a beautiful family with a fragile baby and his toddler brother. Learn how they were supported through foster-to-adopt and family services organization Vista Del Mar as they worked to care for c...
Two Dads Foster-to-Adopt Pt 1: Love and Heartbreak
IVFU - September 29, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsMarried couple Chris and Jesse share their turbulent story of trying to make a family through the foster-to-adopt system. You'll learn about their big gay wedding (one of the first in California after gay marriage became legal), their entry into the fost-adopt emergency placement system with gui...
Donors That Look Like Me: Infertility as a Black Woman
IVFU - September 22, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsSchoolteacher 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 ...
How Two Moms Make a Family
IVFU - September 15, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsRobin 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 spe...
Season 2 Trailer
IVFU - September 09, 2021 03:42 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThat'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 IVF...
The Biggest Surprise of All (Bonus!)
IVFU - November 17, 2020 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIn 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. Privacy Policy and California Privacy...
S E13: Bonus: The Biggest Surprise of All
IVFU - November 17, 2020 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIn 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. Privacy Policy and California Privacy...
Part of Our Family
IVFU - November 09, 2020 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsSeason 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...
S E12: Part of Our Family
IVFU - November 09, 2020 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsSeason 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...
Surrogates Are Not Crazy People
IVFU - November 03, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsMeet 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...
S E11: Surrogates Are Not Crazy People
IVFU - November 03, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsMeet 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...
I Would Want a Doctor to Treat Me Like Family
IVFU - October 27, 2020 14:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHear 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 tra...
S E10: I Would Want a Doctor to Treat Me Like Family
IVFU - October 27, 2020 14:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHear 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 tra...
I Was Put Here to Be Clementine's Mom
IVFU - October 20, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHear 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 transr...
S E9: I Was Put Here to Be Clementine's Mom
IVFU - October 20, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsHear 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 transr...
You Might Need to Cry in Your Car
IVFU - October 13, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsTherapist 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 wa...
S E8: You Might Need to Cry in Your Car
IVFU - October 13, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsTherapist 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 wa...
Take a Dip in the Sperm Pool
IVFU - October 06, 2020 15:46 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsDive 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...
S E7: Take a Dip in the Sperm Pool
IVFU - October 06, 2020 15:46 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsDive 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...
Guinea Pigs in a Big Experiment
IVFU - September 29, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsExperience IVF in the 1980s with Lolly & Marvin. Lolly and Marvin tried IVF in its early days, eventually opening their minds to adoption, which at that time involved ads in PennySaver newspapers across the country. And somehow they found their perfect match, even without the Internet. For epis...
S E6: Guinea Pigs in a Big Experiment
IVFU - September 29, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsExperience IVF in the 1980s with Lolly & Marvin. Lolly and Marvin tried IVF in its early days, eventually opening their minds to adoption, which at that time involved ads in PennySaver newspapers across the country. And somehow they found their perfect match, even without the Internet. For epis...
S E5: An Open Adoption, Internationally
IVFU - September 22, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsFind out how Julie found family in Ethiopia. A shocking medical diagnosis forced Julie to give up on IVF, but she couldn't give up on her need to be a parent. In an international adoption journey that took her all the way to Ethiopia, Julie learned how much love and work being a parent could be....
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