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Writer, 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 parents' names on the birth certificate, to the moment when gay marriage became legal – the day after her second son was born. Now remarried, Tara also shares her excitement in this new, third chance at motherhood, and as her butch biological clock will tell you, it's not a moment too soon.Find out more about Tara, her live performances and her book The Clancys of Queens at www.taraclancy.com.Find out more about The Moth Radio Hour and live storytelling events at themoth.org.Get ready for our IVFU Season 2 Finale by sending in your questions for our expert therapist Savannah Sanfield! Questions due by Nov 11 (11/11). Send to ivfupodcast@gmail.com or DM Sam at www.instagram.com/ivfupodcast.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 at www.instagram.com/ivfupodcast, www.facebook.com/ivfupodcast and www.twitter.com/ivfupodcast. 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 ivfupodcast@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daughter 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 treatments, fertility meds, pregnancy fails, and more, Nicole Lawson was able to have her first child through a surrogate. She worked with surrogacy again for her second child, and was inspired to leave her entertainment career to open Abundant Beginnings Company, a surrogacy agency, with her business partner Julie Allgood. Meanwhile, Nicole's mother, Pamela Hirsch, after caring for her daughter through the struggle and realizing the fortune of having a fortune when you can pay for your child's IVF treatment and support, was inspired to found the Baby Quest Foundation, which awards grants to couples, single parents, military veterans with infertility and others who long to have a family, but don't have the funds. Join us for Bring Your Mother to Work Day at IVFU!If you have questions about surrogacy, becoming a surrogate for a family in need, or finding a surrogate for your own family journey, find Nicole at Abundant Beginnings Company, https://abcsurrogacy.com. For more information about Baby Quest, to make a donation, offer to volunteer, or apply for one of their annual fertility grants, (next deadline March 15, 2022!) visit https://babyquestfoundation.org. 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 at www.instagram.com/ivfupodcast, www.facebook.com/ivfupodcast and www.twitter.com/ivfupodcast. 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 ivfupodcast@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Want to support Melissa? Donate to her GoFundMe at The Teacher and the Lost EggGet 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 ivfupodcast@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Resolve 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 not by choice." Baby showers, pregnant sisters and sibling rivalry, women's rights, IVF and infertility support, marital issues, march on Washington, RESOLVE's advocacy day and the rewards of being an aunt are all discussed with candor, love and humor in this intimate conversation about the one family alternative that's rarely given its due – or should we say, "duo."Learn more about RESOLVE at resolve.org.Get involved with RESOLVE's Advocacy Day at https://resolve.org/get-involved/events/advocacy-day/.Find the book that inspired and helped Brooke, Sweet Grapes, at your local bookseller and at https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Grapes-Being-Infertile-Living/dp/0944934234/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=sweet+grapes&qid=1633457622&sr=8-3.Have questions about infertility or adoption? Get ready for our IVFU Season 2 Finale by sending in your questions for our expert therapist Savannah Sanfield! Questions due by Nov 11 (11/11). Send to ivfupodcast@gmail.com or DM Sam at www.instagram.com/ivfupodcast.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 at www.instagram.com/ivfupodcast, www.facebook.com/ivfupodcast and www.twitter.com/ivfupodcast. 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 ivfupodcast@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.