Show Notes
This week we spiral into new depths of paranoia; as we try to navigate early pregnancy after multiple failed attempts. We now don’t trust anything; symptoms, tests, Doctors, or each other.
We get a little closer to finding out if we are actually massively co-dependent or not, as at the moment David s**ts himself every time Lauren leaves the room. We realise that the Algorithm has never been more sinister as it feels like it's sent to destroy us and all of our joy.
We have a debate on how to eat an Elephant and if it’s worth the risk as the other Elephants may be having a funeral nearby for their recently departed friend and you’ll prolly get trampled to death in the end anyway.
David decides to get his mid-life crisis out of the way before we have a child, as it’ll just be all the more exhausting when they’re here - the upshot? An earring, prolly.
We do something grown up and attend a fertility conference in London and become slightly less “potatoes with a microphone” as we share all of our discoveries. With this, we discuss add-ons and if they are actually really worth looking into when navigating IVF.
We also touch on why less and less people are having children these days and it makes us doubt this whole damn thing.
Episode Links:
https://thefertilityalliance.org.uk/the-london-fertility-forum/
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/metabolism-systems/smith-rima
https://www.nexysfertility.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mzzvgh
https://corymiller.com/how-to-eat-an-elephant-or-tackle-most-any-big-huge-enormous-project/
Support our Podcast Here
https://buymeacoffee.com/thebabymakingbusiness
T/W - This week we talk about positive and negative tests results, miscarriage and early pregnancy, as well as a mention of suicide.
More from The Baby Making Business
This week David and Lauren reflect on the arrival of baby Cashel.
Lauren goes in for a routine scan and is kept in. The Baby is coming. It's D-Day.
This week, we’re talking about trust, transformation and two very different approaches to nesting. But drive each other bonkers in the process. We start with the deeply troubling stories emerging from fertility clinics in northern Cyprus, where families say DNA testing has revealed that the sperm or egg donors they carefully selected may not have been the donors used to conceive their children.
Today is a balance of silly buggers and “Getting deep Deborahs.”
To mark IVF day, we celebrate Jean Purdy, perhaps the greatest unsung hero of IVF. In doing so, we discover Rabbits were also trailblazers in the science of IVF.