June is Pride Month, and this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
While there is still a lot of work to be done to bring true equity to the LGBTQ+ community, today’s story is a demonstration of how far we’ve come over the past 50 years. We hear from Katie and Christina Bailey, a couple who utilized reciprocal IVF to welcome their baby girl into the world. And a year later, they did it again.
But their journey wasn’t easy. The couple faced a number of hurdles before they were able to meet their daughters Kennedy and Charlotte, from having to choose the right sperm donor to exploring egg donation due to Christina’s PCOS. In this episode, Katie and Christina share their complex fertility journey, what it was like building a family as a same-sex female couple, and how they decided to give back to the infertility and LGBTQ+ family building communities through their social media and online blog.
Guests: Katie and Christina Bailey
Host: Lissa Kline, VP of Member and Provider Services at Progyny
For more information, visit Progyny’s Podcast page and Progyny’s Education page for LGBTQ+ family building options.
You can find the couple’s online blog here, or follow them on Instagram: @BabyBaileyMamaDrama.
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