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Sex, Drugs & Lullabies

BBC Radio Humberside•www.bbc.co.uk
Society & Culture
Personal Journals

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.

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Becoming new parents, at 58 and 61

Harry Gration was a much loved presenter of BBC Look North, who died last year. Back in 2019, as part of the Sex, Drugs and Lullabies Podcast, Natalie Glanvill and Amanda White spoke to Harry, and his wife Helen, about their journey to have another child, at the ages of 68 and 51.

Oct 20, 2023•14 min

S3 EP11 Ask the experts

We're taking a break but before that let's clear up the facts around fertility. We've been asking your questions to two professionals in the world of IVF and fertility. You can contact Natalie and Amanda fertility@bbc.co.uk or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby. ***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***

Nov 19, 2021•50 min

S3 EP10 Carrie and Joel

This week Natalie and Amanda meet Carrie and Joel from Hull. The couple have used their experience of having premature babies to set up a business called Miniature Miracles for people who need small clothes. It is also a support line for people who have gone through the same experience. "I was laid in a room with six other babies crying and my child was upstairs in intensive care with a big wire hanging out of her throat. I'd not seen her and didn't know what she looked like." "She (Carrie) had ...

Nov 12, 2021•40 min

S3 EP09 Helen's instant family

In this podcast 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. In this week's episode, after unexplained fertility and knowing her chances of IVF being a success at the age of 40 were low, Helen and her husband decided to adopt. "It seemed to be a desperate act to do IVF and I felt that I was sort of saying my genes are more...

Nov 05, 2021•51 min

S3 EP08 Nicola McPhun

In this podcast 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. This week we talk menopause, hot sweats, brain fog, insomnia, loss of joy - ring a bell? Nicola went through it and left her job because her symptoms were so bad. She wishes she had reached out and asked for help. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside. ***...

Oct 28, 2021•32 min

S3 EP07 Wayne Jackson

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 to do with fertility. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside. ***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***

Oct 21, 2021•46 min

S3 EP06 Steve Bland

Steve from the award-winning You, Me & the Big C Podcast talks to us about the impact cancer can have on fertility. He and his wife Rachael had their embryos frozen before she started treatment for cancer. "We have 3 or 4 embryos in the freezer...I've been asked before in interviews if I'd ever do anything with them and I really don't think I ever would." Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside. ***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***

Oct 14, 2021•41 min

S3 EP05 Kat Francois

In this week's episode we speak to Kat who has written about her fertility issues in a poem and the fact she won't ever have children. "You can make a life even if you don't have children." "You will survive." "Bottom line, you're worth more than your womb." This podcast is about IVF and fertility. 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 despa...

Oct 07, 2021•47 min

S3 EP04 Alice Rose

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 to do with fertility. This week we meet Alice Rose, a fertility mindset mentor about how to deal with the struggle to conceive. She set up an online community for people who need support through their fertility journeys and also pre...

Oct 01, 2021•52 min

S3 EP03 Love Island's Amy Hart

"I see it as an option, are you going to have ketchup or mayonnaise on your burger, I'm like am I going to wait to find someone or am I going to have a baby on my own, I see it as a normal decision." Amy Hart spoke to us earlier this year (before revealing she has a new boyfriend) about why she would consider doing IVF alone. She decided to freeze her eggs after having a fertility MOT. In the BBC's only fertility podcast, Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to co...

Sep 23, 2021•41 min

S3 EP02 Ola Jordan

Former 'Strictly Come Dancing' star Ola Jordan talks about IVF & we get some tips on eating well when trying to conceive. "(fertility) is a hard subject, people don't really talk about it because some people don't want to but for us it was the best thing we could have done, tell everyone. The pressure was off." In this podcast 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...

Sep 16, 2021•17 min

EP01 We're back with Series 3!

Lots to talk about in this series, and some great guests, plus some very BIG news from one of our ladies. (Trigger... this episode talks about pregnancy so if you're not feeling strong enough to listen, maybe save this one for another time).

Sep 09, 2021•39 min

S2 EP11 Double Donor IVF

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 to do with fertility. In the final episode of the series we meet Cathryn, a single parent who conceived her daughter using a donor egg and donor sperm. Natalie and Amanda also reflect on the last series and talk about what the futur...

Dec 24, 2020•35 min

S2 EP10 Are you ever too old to have a baby?

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, this week we talk about age and does it really matter how old you are to become parents? Harry & Helen experienced some negative comments about having a 3rd child later in life “Some members of our family weren’t keen on it; th...

Dec 18, 2020•45 min

S2 EP09 How to cope when you've been dealt it all

In the podcast Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles trying 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. This week Harriet tells us how she's managed to keep going. She's had both fallopian tubes removed and there’s very little chance of her falling pregnant naturally. She spoke to us week's after a failed IVF cycle. "How long do you chase it for before you say, tha...

Dec 11, 2020•41 min

S2 EP08 Laura

In the podcast 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. Warning, there is talk of pregnancy in this episode! “I wouldn’t have cared whether we’d had a little boy or a little girl as long as they get to come home with us this time.” Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside. ***Contains strong language and adult conv...

Dec 04, 2020•25 min

S2 EP07 Shared motherhood

In the podcast 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. This week we hear about Shared Motherhood..."“It allows you to have two biological mothers, so you have the mother who has their eggs collected and you have the mother who carries the embryo and gives birth.” Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside. ***Contai...

Nov 27, 2020•41 min

S2 EP06 Egg Donation

In the podcast 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. This week we talk to Leila about the challenges she faced using a donor egg and why the term "genetic mother" can be quite painful for some mum's using an egg donor. “At the time I felt like an oven, I’m going to incubate yours and another woman’s child, and then ...

Nov 20, 2020•33 min

S2 EP05 Adoption

In this podcast 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. This week, we talk about adoption with Rozi from Hull. She has decided not to go down the IVF route for a child. "We had been trying for five years at this point... I'd stopped doing everything... I refused to do things, I wouldn't go on holiday... I stopped livi...

Nov 13, 2020•30 min

S2 EP04 Mental Health

In this podcast 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. Fran contacted the podcast asking for us to do an episode on Mental Health. In this episode she talks openly about what impact going through IVF had on her mental health and how she coped. "I got really depressed and down and I felt like just a total failure and ...

Nov 05, 2020•40 min

S2 EP03 Miscarriage

In the podcast 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. This week we talk to Kay Crewdson who is Mummy to Ava and Media Director for @Cradle_EPL which supports bereaved parents with early pregnancy loss. "You may only be 35 seconds pregnant but you've already played out 35 years worth of memories just like that." Origi...

Oct 30, 2020•46 min
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