11 episodes
The Long Road to Baby BBC Radio 4
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4.8 • 170 Ratings
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A post-IVF exploration into the alternative ways to become parents.
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Ep10. The Road Ahead
Sophie Sulehria is a BBC Reporter. She and her husband Jonny started trying for a baby in 2013 and after being told they couldn't conceive naturally. The couple begun IVF treatment in April 2014. A little over three years and £40,000 later they embarked on what they felt would be their last chance at IVF. Sophie and Jonny have been chronicling their efforts to find an alternative way to become a family, including reports on egg donation, foreign adoption and fostering to adopt. In this, the final episode, they reflect on the journey so far, and discuss what their future options are. They talk to Eddie Mair, former presenter of the PM presenter on Radio 4.
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Ep9. Friends and Family
Facing a fertility condition is often painful and all consuming. Not just for the people suffering, but for their wider circle watching on. In this episode, Sophie and Jonny consider the effect their quest has had on their friends and families.
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Ep8. A Child Free Life
Sophie and Jonny have been considering alternative ways to have a baby after facing six rounds of unsuccessful IVF. In this episode they explore how they might feel about not having a child at all and meet various people who have found themselves involuntarily childless.
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Ep7. Fostering with a View to Adopt
Sophie and Jonny are considering alternative ways to have their family. So far they've looked at egg donation and adoption from both here and overseas. In this episode they consider the process of fostering to adopt and meet two women who have done it, with very different outcomes. This exploration goes some way to dividing the couple.
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Ep6. Adoption from Overseas
BBC reporter Sophie Sulehria and her husband Jonny have been sharing their journey of trying for a baby. So far they’ve considered egg donation and adoption, but what about adopting from abroad? In this episode Sophie meets a woman who adopted her daughter from India, a woman who was adopted from India, and learns about the stringent rules and regulations surrounding adopting from overseas.
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Ep5. The Male Factor
Talk of the struggle to have children often centres around women. But how do men deal with the pain of fertility problems? Jonny meets two men, Sheridan and Michel, who have been through similar experiences with their partners.
Customer Reviews
Truthful insight brave and so helpful
Thank you so much for making this podcast, I am amazed at your honesty and ability to share this journey you and your husband have been on. It has helped us so much and I’m sure so many others.
It has truly been the most helpful resource we have found to hear honest personal stories and see other people are going through this to, thinking the same thoughts it’s so so healing and helpful.
So thank you so much, I wholeheartedly recommend this podcast for anyone looking to find out more or hear someone else’s experience.
Honest and relatable
This is a fantastic podcast that is refreshingly honest and shares issues that so many people go through in silence.
Very interesting and easy to relate to, highly recommended.
Heartening and beautiful
We are currently going through the third year of our infertility journey and I felt along with every step of the journey shared so honestly here. Very helpful consideration of the different possibilities for how our child might come to us and I feel more positive about the future having listened to them all. The first episode was heartbreaking to listen to - it was almost identical to our own experience. Thank you both so much for doing this.