Our Bodies Our Voices Podcast

Our Bodies Our Voices

A fertility and family building podcast for everyone!

Episodes

  1. 10/26/2020

    Episode 1 - Welcome To Our Bodies Our Voices

    Meet Becca and Joanna, your two co-hosts for Our Bodies Our Voices podcast. The two met at a dinner party and immediately bonded over their mutual interest in all things women’s health. Both in their mid-thirties they are at different points in their fertility and family planning journeys, but both making big decisions as they navigate ways to preserve their options for families in the future. Over the course of the early episodes, they explore topics of hopes, losses, financial considerations related to fertility treatments, marriage and dating, race, and more.

    Episode 1 - Welcome To Our Bodies Our Voices

  2. 10/26/2020

    Episode 2 - Dr. Chitra Akileswaran

    In this episode Joanna and Becca chat with Dr. Chitra Akileswaran, a Board certified Obstetrician Gynecologist. we chat with Chitra about how COVID-19 is impacting family planning, considerations for those who are looking to become pregnant, are pregnant, or are planning for a birth in the midst of COVID-19. Chitra also shares her personal journey towards becoming a mother and speaks about some of the misconceptions people have as they think about starting a family.

    Episode 2 - Dr. Chitra Akileswaran

  3. 10/26/2020

    Episode 3 - Amy & Lindsay

    In this episode, we talk with two friends of Joanna, Lindsey and Amy. Lindsay and Amy share their experience of journeying towards parenthood as a same sex couple. They share details of how they approached their IVF process as well as how they are navigating Amy’s third trimester of pregnancy and planning for their birth amid COVID-19.

    Episode 3 - Amy & Lindsay

  4. 10/26/2020

    Episode 4 - Becca & Lee

    In this episode Joanna interviews her co-host, Becca and her husband Lee. Together they discuss their relationship and how they worked through different goals related to timing of having a child and ultimately reached agreement about when to start trying to build a family. Becca and Lee experienced a pregnancy loss in fall 2019 and discussed that experience and how they wish more people talked about these things as they can feel so isolating and discuss the role of ritual in moving forward after loss.

    Episode 4 - Becca & Lee

  5. 10/26/2020

    Episode 5 - Dr. Madeleine Katz

    Our guest in this episode is Dr. Madeleine Katz. Madeleine is a psychologist who specializes in maternal mental health. We chat with Dr. Katz about the many impacts on mental health that occur through the family building journey. We dive into some of the challenges with access to mental health care and other critical resources for individuals with mental health challenges. We also learn about choice moms and how Dr. Katz helps build community and support women who are considering having a child on their own.

    Episode 5 - Dr. Madeleine Katz
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A fertility and family building podcast for everyone!

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