Hey folks, the good news is I'm putting out new episodes! The not so great news is that the eps are exclusively on Patreon. Sorry about that! It's all I'm comfortable with at the moment.

Sign up at patreon.com/spermcast for just $2 a month you'll get two new episodes a month with some of your favorite returning guests (with some major developments) and new guests with their own wild stories. I hope you'll join me on Patreon! Episode one is up there now!

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This week Molly talks with the fabulous Executive Director of the NY Milk Bank, Julie Bouchet Horwitz. We hear all about what lead Julie to become a board certified nurse practitioner and lactation consultant and finally, to co-create the NY Milk Bank. We learn about her international adoption, breastfeeding an adopted child, how the milk is screened and pasteurized, who donates milk and who needs milk. It's really fascinating. Plus, of course, Molly fills you in on her ups and downs.

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Julie in Mothering Magazine

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Do you like it when two grown women break into tears on and off for an hour? Then you’re gonna love this episode! Molly talks with new friend, Jami Rudofsky, all about fostering-to-adopt as a single lady. The rough parts. The incredible parts. The private parts. Jk. I wish. No private parts.

lus Molly tries to explain her complicated genetic testing results.

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Molly's midwife Robin, who helped her through her TFMR in December, is retiring after 44 years of bringing babies into this world.

Robin is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing 1977, and from SUNY Downstate Midwifery School in 1985. Thanks to years as a labor and delivery nurse, early contacts with pioneers in obstetrics as well as her own experience as a midwife, Robin has witnessed, and contributed to profound advancements in how women give birth.

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Molly's ready to start exploring her options for the future. So this week she talks with new friend, Katy Finn, a NY based adoptive mom to two boys, and gets the inside scoop on adoption. We learn about the family triad, transracial adoption, open adoption, home study, adoption language, money money money money, and cheese caves.

If you've ever shared about your struggle to get pregnant, chances are you've been asked "why don't you just adopt"? As if it was easy. The truth is, the word just does not belong before the word adoption. You don't just decide to adopt and then go home with a baby. There's paperwork, advertising, legal fees, medical bills, home studies, tens of thousands of dollars and waiting. Lots and lots of waiting.

Katy's blog: Our Family Triad

Katy's Instagram

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Molly speaks with Kate Carson, who helps run the Ending a Wanted Pregnancy support group, whose TFMR story has been shared on the senate floor as well as across multiple publications (links below) and who helps relieve the suffering of women around the world with the warmth and insight of her kind words.

Yahoo News

Elle

USA Today

Activism for Planned Parenthood

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TFMR stands for Terminating a Wanted Pregnancy. It's what I had to do. And what it turns out, thousands of women have to do all the time. It's tragic, but what’s almost as tragic is that many of these women do not feel like they can be open about their experience. On top of the excruciating pain of their loss they also have to hide the truth of their circumstances and suffer in silence. I hope by talking about my experience and sharing other stories of TFMR, that these women will feel safe and supported.

In this episode Lyndsay shares her TFMR story and her wisdom.

Read her New York Times Op-Ed here.

If you are looking for support take a look at Ending a Wanted Pregnancy.

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