The Babymakers : A Fertility Podcast

The decision to turn to a third-party when building a family is far from easy. This episode helps listeners feel more at ease by demystifying the process, managing anxiety along the way, and keeping the focus on what really matters.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This episode is sponsored by:

wellpeople Integrative Healing (wellpeoplehealing.com)

The Seed Fertility Program (seedfertility.com PROMO CODE: BABYMAKERS20)

The diagnosis of PTSD, until recently, has mostly been assigned to war veterans and victims of assault. However, the traumatizing struggle that many women and couples face when dealing with a diagnosis of infertility is ongoing. It’s not limited to an isolated event or circumstance. “Fertility PTSD”, by comparison to typical PTSD, subjects its patients to be re-triggered on a regularly repeating basis.

As fertility patients “hang in”, month after challenging month, they develop a range of symptoms that include: an inability to trust, difficulty feeling safe, anxiety and panic, insomnia, isolation and physiological symptoms such as palpitations and in some cases, sympathetic shock which arises as they approach routine ultrasounds and exams, procedures and protocols.

With each cycle attempt, they courageously tell themselves to “fight the good fight” and ignore bodily cues of dysregulation, in hopes of conceiving, staying pregnant and moving beyond the reproductive life chapter.

This episode with Maternal Mental Health Psychologist, Dr Ivy Margulies, explains the physiological connection behind the metaphorical phrase “The Uterus Is Our Second Heart”; as the powerful connection between our mind’s perceptionand our body’s physiology can no longer be denied in this vulnerable community.

Dr Ivy is an expert in the field of women’s reproductive psychology. She has dedicated her life to the mission of helping women during all stages of womanhood; including everything from infertility and childlessness, to loss of babies, infants and children, and including the grief that occurs due to the loss of their long held family building dream.

As Dr Ivy explained, “When you’re stuck in feeling, you’re not thinking (rationally)”.

This episode gives women (and their partners) a plethora of perspective, information, insights and effective strategies to better understand PTSD... as it pertains to baby-making and parenthood.

Dr Ivy Margulies is taking new clients, in-person and virtually. Visit her website www.DrIvyLove.com to learn more; or reach out directly via email to schedule: [email protected].

This episode was sponsored by SeedFertility.com, the original resource of online fertility education. For specific tools to reconcile pregnancy loss and grief associated with infertility, consider Healing After Loss — a course available inside SeedFertility.com that provides a downloadable workbook, a new perspective, and unique strategies to restore the hope that often gets lost along the way to motherhood. Use promo code BABYMAKERS and save 20%.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This is one of the best feel-good episodes of The Babymakers Podcast, as wives Toby & Lindsay share details about their VIRAL babymaking story — when they made headlines as “2 Lesbian Wives Pregnant At The Same Time!”

This story involves many of the typical fertility hurdles and hiccups (ie. miscarriage, polyps, upsetting ultrasounds, and worry about male factor), but it drives home the idea that keeping an OPEN HEART & MIND is key to family building in today’s complicated world.

You’ll love hearing how the two supported each other in a process that felt frustrating at times with so much uncertainty, and how the journey taught them to control what they could while allowing something bigger than themselves to handle the rest.

Both women describe what the process was like for them — from the early days when they both used The Seed Fertility Program to improve their fertility, all the way to the moment when they delivered their babies within weeks of each other.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This episode is sponsored by:

wellpeople Integrative Healing (wellpeoplehealing.com)

The Seed Fertility Program- (seedfertility.com PROMO CODE: BABYMAKERS)

Sharing tips, strategies and success stories that inspire... these doctors’ episodes inform and help women and couples to better understand their options; from a holistic and biomedical standpoint.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This episode is sponsored by:

wellpeople Integrative Healing (wellpeoplehealing.com)

The Seed Fertility Program- (seedfertility.com PROMO CODE: BABYMAKERS20)

Balanced hormones are essential for babymaking, so we interviewed integrative wellness expert Dr Taz Bhatia (author of The Hormone Shift and Super Woman Rx ) to learn more about optimizing ovarian potential and improving fertility.

In this info-packed episode, Dr Danica and Dr Taz break down the three most common ovarian challenges for women on the fertility journey:

• hypothalamic ovulatory dysfunction
• PCOS
• Premature Ovarian Failure due to a diagnosis of premature menopause

The first step in returning the ovaries to a state of balance involves understanding what creates imbalance in the first place. A pioneer in the field of integrative women’s reproductive health, Dr Taz shares her unique diagnostic system, innovative health strategies, and her unique experience as a holistic physician who transitioned her medical practice from the ER to the world of integrative medicine.

Dr Taz is a “super woman” and a super doctor; she’s knowledgeable, innovative and incredibly passionate about helping other women become more empowered about their hormones.

Whether you’re navigating preconception, muddling through a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, or navigating peri/post menopause, this conversation will provide new insights that point you in a solid direction forward. To see Dr Taz in Los Angeles, email [email protected], or learn more about her Centre Spring clinic in Atlanta: Sponsoredcentrespringmd.comhttps://www.centrespringmd.comDr. Taz Bhatia M.D. | Integrative & Holistic Doctor Atlanta

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This episode is sponsored by:

wellpeople Integrative Healing (wellpeoplehealing.com)

The Seed Fertility Program- (seedfertility.com PROMO CODE: BABYMAKERS)