My First Year: The Anthology

Musician and Chinese medicine teacher Andrew Sterman recounts how he decided to have children with his wife Anne, an acupuncturist, marked by a ceremony inviting “universal creative forces.” He describes two successful home births in 2004 and 2007 with midwife and doula, using acupuncture during labor, and the mystical intensity of birth. Sterman emphasizes dads focusing on postpartum recovery, be...

Sophia introduces “My First Year: The Anthology” and kicks off with an episode from the upcoming podcast “My First Year as a Mother.” The series is co-hosted by Sophia and new mom, Casey Georgi. For this episode, we learn more about Casey’s story. Casey describes pursuing IVF to avoid passing on her husband’s rare genetic brittle bone disease, osteogenesis imperfecta. She shares reluctance about i...

From Sophia Media comes a new podcast series exploring the moments that shape us.  My First Year is a collection of deeply personal conversations with people from all walks of life, reflecting on the experiences that transformed them—moments of courage, uncertainty, loss, love, reinvention, and discovery. Our guests revisit some of the most meaningful chapters of their lives and explore questions...