EPISODE · Mar 11, 2026 · 14 MIN
92) IVF DOES NOT GUARANTEE A BABY: THE CONVERSATION ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS NOBODY IS HAVING
from IVF DADDIES · host Richard Westoby & Julio Gaggia
Everyone talks about the embryos. Nobody talks about what happens to the relationship.IVF puts a number on your family. Success rates. Grades. Transfer windows. And somewhere inside all of that data, the relationship that started this entire journey is quietly breaking under the pressure nobody warned you about.Julio and Richard go there in this episode. Fully.What this episode covers:Why IVF clinics are excellent at the medical side and almost useless on the emotional side.Why frozen embryos create a decision that no couple is ever prepared to make together.Why the moment you realize biology is not cooperating with the life you planned is one of the loneliest moments a person can experience.Why younger LGBTQ couples are becoming parents earlier while straight couples are starting later and what that tension reveals about modern family building.Why having a baby does not fix a relationship. And why IVF pressure can expose everything that was already fragile.When to keep trying. When to change the plan. And how you know the difference.This is not the glossy brochure version of IVF.This is what it actually does to the people going through it.TOPICS IN THIS EPISODEIVF success rates and embryo realitySurrogacy and donor egg decisionsLGBTQ family buildingThe emotional impact of IVF on relationshipsWhy IVF clinics rarely address relationship psychologyOlder parents versus younger parentsThe grief of the family you imaginedWhy having a baby does not fix a relationshipListening in a browser? Open this in the Spotify app and hit follow. That is the only way Spotify tells you when new episodes land. No clinic deals. No referral fees. No false hope. IVF Daddies is the independent reference system for IVF, surrogacy and egg donation.
What this episode covers
Everyone talks about the embryos. Nobody talks about what happens to the relationship.IVF puts a number on your family. Success rates. Grades. Transfer windows. And somewhere inside all of that data, the relationship that started this entire journey is quietly breaking under the pressure nobody warned you about.Julio and Richard go there in this episode. Fully.What this episode covers:Why IVF clinics are excellent at the medical side and almost useless on the emotional side.Why frozen embryos create a decision that no couple is ever prepared to make together.Why the moment you realize biology is not cooperating with the life you planned is one of the loneliest moments a person can experience.Why younger LGBTQ couples are becoming parents earlier while straight couples are starting later and what that tension reveals about modern family building.Why having a baby does not fix a relationship. And why IVF pressure can expose everything that was already fragile.When to keep trying. When to change the plan. And how you know the difference.This is not the glossy brochure version of IVF.This is what it actually does to the people going through it.TOPICS IN THIS EPISODEIVF success rates and embryo realitySurrogacy and donor egg decisionsLGBTQ family buildingThe emotional impact of IVF on relationshipsWhy IVF clinics rarely address relationship psychologyOlder parents versus younger parentsThe grief of the family you imaginedWhy having a baby does not fix a relationshipListening in a browser? Open this in the Spotify app and hit follow. That is the only way Spotify tells you when new episodes land. No clinic deals. No referral fees. No false hope. IVF Daddies is the independent reference system for IVF, surrogacy and egg donation.
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92) IVF DOES NOT GUARANTEE A BABY: THE CONVERSATION ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS NOBODY IS HAVING
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