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Factual: Life Stories

This podcast hears about the drama, indignity, tragedy and comedy of infertility.

So you thought having a baby was easy? This podcast hears about the drama, indignity, tragedy and comedy of infertility.

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside.

***Contains strong language and adult conversation.*** 

You can contact Natalie and Amanda fertility@bbc.co.uk or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby.

Sex, Drugs & Lullabies: 6. Living without a child

6. Living without a child

BBC Radio Humberside - Sex, Drugs & Lullabies, 6. Living without a child

Not every story of fertility ends with a baby or child. What is it like to be childless?

Leanne Cloudsdale talks about her desire to have her own child & Natalie asks Amanda's husband Andy, how he feels about not having children.

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk about their personal experience of IVF treatment. Contains strong language and adult conversation. 

In this episode they speak to Leanne who has written an article called ‘The Shit Sandwich’. She is currently childless and frustrated with her body for not giving her the baby she wants.

“I would allow someone to paralyse me with an injection if at the same time it can make me pregnant with that one in injection.” 

“You fall into this level of desperation because you just think, you don’t understand this biological urge to be a mum and it’s my god given right to be a mum and actually it’s a privilege to be a mum.”

Contact: fertility@bbc.co.uk, or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby

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