Baby Steps: Advocating For Your Body ft. Lauren Speed Hamilton || Season 3 Ep. 7
On this episode of Baby Steps, hosts Jordana Abraham and Dr. Naomi Bernstein sit down with Love Is Blind participant, Lauren Speed-Hamilton to share the raw, unfiltered truth about her multi-year fertility journey. Lauren opens up about trying to conceive, facing unexplained infertility, going through multiple failed IUIs and IVF transfers, enduring a heartbreaking miscarriage, and discovering fibroids that required major surgery. She reveals how grief over the sudden loss of her father intertwined with the hope of creating new life, therapy, faith, and support from her husband and Love is Blind co-star Cameron Hamilton helped her keep going. Lauren also discusses the mental toll of IVF, the pressure of being in the public eye while struggling with infertility, and the importance of finding the right doctor and advocating for your own care. Now six months pregnant, she reflects on resilience, hope, and what she wants others facing fertility challenges to know: you are not alone.
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Am I Inconsiderate For Taking Care Of Myself Before Others?
Jordana recently celebrated her birthday while Dr. Naomi was off visiting a long distance friend and the two share about their very different experiences. The hosts also side-bar about the recently viral Netflix Documentary Unknown Number and if you haven’t seen it yet go watch it first because they spill all the secrets. A new mother and caring friend writes in asking if it's okay to not be there for someone when you yourself are holding on by a thread. Dr. Naomi gets real about a concerned wife and daughter who thinks her husband's mismanaging a vacation with her father and is looking for a Betchecist on the situation. After giving birth, one listener is at odds with her new body shape and seeks an intention for how to embrace this era of her life. A Betch is left speechless and a bit triggered after her friend ghosted her for months and blew off a trip, only to emerge from the woodwork with a new group of friends. Another listener is sour that her partner wasn’t applauding her recent weight loss only to discover he “hadn’t even noticed” and she is not sure how to feel about it.
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Baby Steps: Overcoming The Stigmas Of Infertility & Surrogacy || Season 3 Ep.6
After two episodes full of information on infertility, Dr. Naomi and Jordana are together in studio to get personal with virtual guest, host of the podcast Ladygang, and actress/singer/dancer: Becca Tobin. Becca has been very public with her infertility journey, but today she goes deep about how this experience helped fortify her relationship with her partner and prepare them both for the challenges of parenthood. She also talks more about her use of a surrogate, and how that decision challenged her emotionally and physically. With wit and humility Becca opens up and shares how her path to motherhood was a challenge worth taking.
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How To Be Honest With Your Parents About Your Life
Dr Naomi shares a recent moment with her son where the “Birds & the Bees” are discussed and she and Jordana reminisce on their own childhood conversations around the subject. The Overshare comes from a Betch in a secret age-gap relationship that is rapidly moving towards engagement and she is unsure of how to reveal it all to her family. A listener seeks help around tipping, especially when it comes to discounted services and the hosts give a Betchicist with their own takes on the matter. Dr Naomi provides an important intention for a listener that could help us all a bit with FOMO and not fitting in. A triggered scenario where a boyfriend goes silent for all 5 days of a bachelor trip has one listener spiraling and another has an employee defending her new hometown after her boss trash talks it to her face, and both scenarios are honestly wild.
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Baby Steps: Common Conception Challenges For The LGBTQ Community || Season 3 Ep. 5
Marea Goodman, Licensed Midwife, co-author of the book ‘Baby Making for Everybody,’ and founder of Pregnant Together; joins Jordana for a conversation about the LGBT & Solo Parent pregnancy experience. From at-home insemination and breast feeding when both parents can lactate, to understanding the grief that comes with the “non-traditional” conception process, Marea touches on the many ways she provides support and resources to these communities. While access to technology has made pregnancy possible for so many people, Marea discusses the mental and emotional struggles that are unique to these experiences and shares her many resources for navigating the process.
For More Information About Queer and Solo Parent Pregnancy, check out: https://community.pregnanttogether.com/
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Oversharing from Betches Media is all about the challenges we face in all kinds of relationships; from friendships to family, long term partnerships or even dealing with the customer service rep that makes you want to scream into a pillow. Betches co-founder and relationship enthusiast Jordana Abraham has teamed up with her big sister, licensed clinical therapist Dr. Naomi Bernstein, to answer your questions and try to get to the bottom of the things that bother us most. Think of Jordana and Dr. Naomi as your BFF and your therapist, sitting side-by-side at the brunch table trying to help you get through your problems. Each week they’re responding to listener emails, tackling difficult ethical questions, playing games, and so much more. Because sometimes we really need advice from people with no skin in the game. And let’s face it, your friends can’t stand to hear that story one more time.
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