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Our Families Ourselves
Each week, "elder" millennial moms Ann-Sophie and Maria meet people who challenge the traditional notion of family-forming and parenting. We explore the joy, the pain, and - let’s face it - dysfunction of creating a family. Adoption, IVF, surrogacy, child-free by choice, and more … these are our families, told through our voices.
Our Families Ourselves
Solo Parenting, By Choice or By Consequence with Molly Hawkey
For our very first ep, we sit down with the woman who inspired us to get on the mic: Molly Hawkey - actress, comedian, and host extraordinaire of Spermcast.
Molly shares her journey to “solo parenting,” from interviewing comedian friends on why their sperm fits the bill, traveling cross-country pregnant during a global pandemic, to her own podcast audience helping her through very tough times. We promised a rollercoaster, and here it is … hold on tight!
Join us as we chat about:
- The freedom and challenges of solo parenting
- The joy (and sometimes annoyances) of grandparents
- Sperm, sperm, sperm! Known-donor, anonymous donor, genetic mutations
- IUI, IVF … all the acronyms
- “Diblings” i.e. donor siblings - yes, it’s a thing.
*Trigger Warning* This episode contains themes of miscarriage and TFMR (termination for medical reasons).
Links:
Listen to Spermcast.
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Follow Molly (and her adorable baby) on her IG.
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