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Beyond Pronatalism
Finding fulfillment, with or without kids
To have or not have kids is one of the biggest decisions we make in our lives, and yet how many of us know that we even have a choice about how we define and create our families? Beyond Pronatalism host Nandita Bajaj interviews women and men from diverse backgrounds who are courageously and creatively navigating pronatalism - the powerful pressures to have children - whether from family, friends, or the culture at large. Through intimate conversations, they discuss how they are forging unconventional pathways to fulfillment, including redefining what family means to them - whether that means being childfree or childless, having biological children, adopting or fostering children or animals, or creating close-knit communities of friends and loved ones.
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Pamela | Surviving the Trauma of IVF
Distraught by her infertility diagnosis, Pamela pursued the IVF pathway. A decade of costly and painful failed treatments left Pamela traumatized. Determined to expose the exploitative and dangerously pronatalist practices of the highly unregulated multi-billion dollar fertility industry and to bring together other IVF survivors, she founded the “silent sorority” community and the ReproTechTruths website. Today, she and her husband lead deeply fulfilled lives pursuing their many passions.
Chetana | The Gift of Biological Childlessness
A childhood illness leaves Chetana unable to give birth. After enduring the pronatalist shame of biological childlessness for many years, she reflects on the possibilities this opened up for her, and how many women are denied those possibilities by pronatalism.
Sara | The Relief of IVF Failure
Unable to have children naturally, Sara went through a harrowing IVF journey, only to realize following her unsuccessful treatments that she had never wanted children and had just escaped from a painfully pronatalist trap.
Episodes will be released every two weeks, beginning Tuesday, July 30 2024, and will be available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all podcast platforms.
Producer and Host: Nandita Bajaj
Production Team: Josh Wild, Alan Ware
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