Genevieve Thurley: 'I was not going to celebrate until the baby was in my arms'
Genevieve Thurley is a busy woman, what with her 1 million followers and career as a makeup artist and content creator. But today, she's mak...
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Big Fat Negative: TTC, fertility, infertility and IVF
Big Fat Negative is the podcast about IVF, infertility and the trials of TTC - aka trying for a baby. Co-hosted by journalists and friends Emma Forsyth Haslett and Gabriella Griffith, the sh...
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20 of 150 episodesCathy Adams: Deciding when enough is enough
Cathy Adams is the travel news features editor for The Times and Sunday Times -- and also a person who has spent years trying to conceive he...
What sperm can tell you about your partner's health
This week we're joined by Tristan Taylor, the founder of Mandrology, who is biohacking his way to sperm health. He explains why sperm qualit...
How to prevent 10,000 miscarriages a year
Oonagh Pickering is one of the research nurses at Tommy's whose study on graduated miscarriage care has already changed how the Scottish NHS...
Martha de Lacey: 'You give yourself this story of why things happened'
The sourdough baker Martha de Lacey joins us this week: she has run the full gamut of infertility experiences, from going solo to recurrent...
Sheyi Martins-Allen on the pain of secondary infertility
She's a performer, musician and wickedly funny creator: Sheyi Martins-Allen joins us to talk about her experience of secondary infertility,...
The Fertility Disconnect: A Wild Nutrition special
SPECIAL EPISODE SPONSORED BY WILD NUTRITION. Gabby and Emma swanned off to London last week to attend the launch of a new report by Wild Nut...
Dr Helen O'Neill: The woman who is changing what we know about hormones
Dr Helen O'Neill is many things: a mirror twin, an associate professor in reproductive and molecular genetics at UCL, and also the co-founde...
Kate-Lois Elliott: TTC, but still laughing
The comedian Kate-Lois Elliott joins us today to talk about how she's balancing the demands of a comedy career with TTC and infertility - an...
Improving male fertility: 'I even went commando'
Jacky Maughan had been an international DJ before he and his wife, Eleanor, started trying for a baby. "His lifestyle was party, party, drin...
Solo, queer and trying for a baby
The actor and writer Natalie Walmsley tells us their story of IUI, ectopics and queer conception - and how they are turning their story into...
Dr Shanna Swan from The Plastic Detox
We're back! (Sort of). Today we're interviewing Dr. Shanna Swan, the presenter of The Plastic Detox, a new Netflix documentary examining the...
Bonus: Dr. Jessica Zucker on miscarriage
You might know Dr Jessica Zucker better as @IHadAMiscarriage, the campaigner who helped thousands of women to tell their stories of loss. Sh...
BONUS: Emily Oster
We're back for one night only and we're joined by economist, author, data scientist and all-round HERO Emily Oster, who tells us what the da...
Merry Christmas!
Well, that's a wrap for series 7. To celebrate, Gabby and Emma are raising a festive glass and answering questions from listeners. They're a...
Amber Izzo and Katie Rollings on ending the IVF postcode lottery
We've heard some heart-breaking stories about the IVF postcode lottery - people who've aged out of their ICB's limit as they tried to lose w...
It's Louise Brown!!!!
This week we are lucky enough to be joined by THE Louise Joy Brown, the first IVF baby. She talks about how her mum felt about going through...
Aisha Balesaria on childlessness not by choice
This week we're talking to Aisha Balesaria, aka Mind Body Revival Coach, about childlessness not by choice. She discusses her chronic endome...
'Joy' creators Rachel Mason and Jack Thorne
Surprise! We're here on a Friday to give you a little something extra: an interview with the screenwriters of the new Netflix movie Joy , wh...
Jessica Hepburn returns
Last time we spoke to the author, adventurer and arts producer Jessica Hepburn was way back in 2019, when we talked about how she swam the E...