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Pregnancy and Postpartum

What to Expect During the Third Trimester

Updated by the Progyny Clinical Team — June 2025 The countdown is on! At 28 weeks, you enter your third […]

Pregnancy and Postpartum

Diagnosing and Managing Gestational Diabetes

Updated by the Progyny Clinical Team — June 2025 Pregnancy is a remarkable journey, marked by many physical and emotional […]

Pregnancy and Postpartum

Banking Baby’s Cord Blood: What You Need to Know

Updated by the Progyny Clinical Team — June 2025 Many parents are interested in cord blood banking for different reasons. […]

Symptom management

Debunking men’s health and fertility myths: A reproductive urologist sets the record straight

By Joseph P. Alukal, MD, Progyny medical advisory board member and Director of Men’s Health at Columbia/New York-Presbyterian We’ve long […]

Unions

Supporting a healthy workforce must include family building for the LGBTQ+ community

By Janet Choi, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Progyny “Destination parenthood” does not always take a traditional or linear path, […]

Women's health

Mind the gap: New data reveals what’s missing in your women’s health benefits

“I have been told to handle my stress or adjust my diet, get more sleep, as though I was choosing […]

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This is Infertility

Episode 210

Fertility 101: Sperm with Dr. Turek: Everything You Didn’t Learn in Health Class

Dr. Turek explains how sperm health isn’t just about making babies, it’s also a sign of a man’s overall health, tied to things like life expectancy, cancer risk, and heart health.

Paul Turek, MD

The Turek Clinic

Episode 209

Reimagining LGBTQ+ Family Building: A Midwife’s Perspective

This episode is a reminder of the power of identity-informed care and how transformative it can be to feel seen and supported.

Marea Goodman

PregnantTogether

Episode 208

Family Building Without Barriers: Maggie’s Reciprocal IVF Journey

Maggie discovered that her employer, Santander Bank, offered inclusive fertility benefits through Progyny and that they had something rare: options.

Maggie Garnsey

Progyny Member

Episode 207

From Struggle to Storybook: The Journey Behind Cupcakes Everywhere

Erin shares how infertility reshaped her view and inspired a metaphorical children's book that captures the bittersweet reality of struggling to grow a family.

Erin Sarris

Progyny Member

Episode 206

Building Better Benefits—for Bread Financial and Herself

Bread Financial ended up adding the Progyny fertility benefit, and Deanna was able to experience the benefit firsthand.

Deanna Allison

Bread Financial

Episode 205

Love & Surrogacy: A Broken Brown Egg AHA Grant Winner’s Story

I also chose to be vocal about my journey because I wanted to show other people that you can do it just as a normal middle class young couple, we're trying our best.

Kristina King and Lorenzo Bellard

AHA Grant Recipients

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