Sex, Drugs & Lullabies

Natalie and Amanda return to the clinic where their fertility journeys began.

Michael and Wes are two gay man who wanted to be parents.

Harry Gration was a much loved presenter of BBC Look North, who died last year. Back in 2019, as part of the Sex, Drugs and Lullabies Podcast, Natalie Glanvill and Amanda White spoke to Harry, and his wife Helen, about their journey to have another child, at the ages of 68 and 51.

Helen Davies was already a mother – but she desperately wanted a second child.

Kay has faced multiple miscarriages. She talks about finding the courage to keep trying.

Kat has a condition which means she has heavy periods, which makes conception difficult.

Laura became pregnant through IVF, but the unthinkable happened.

Reverend Matt Woodcock talks about his journey to start a family.

'Lea' faced early menopause. It left her childless, and angry.

Wayne is a single, gay man who has been on a surrogacy journey.

We're taking a break but before that let's clear up the facts around fertility. We've been asking your questions to two professionals in the world of IVF and fertility. You can contact Natalie and Amanda fertility@bbc.co.uk or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby. ***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***

This week Natalie and Amanda meet Carrie and Joel from Hull. The couple have used their experience of having premature babies to set up a business called Miniature Miracles for people who need small clothes. It is also a support line for people who have gone through the same experience. "I was laid in a room with six other babies crying and my child was upstairs in intensive care with a big wire h...

In this podcast Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. In this week's episode, after unexplained fertility and knowing her chances of IVF being a success at the age of 40 were low, Helen and her husband decided to adop...

In this podcast Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. This week we talk menopause, hot sweats, brain fog, insomnia, loss of joy - ring a bell? Nicola went through it and left her job because her symptoms were so bad....

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything to do with fertility. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside. ***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***

Steve from the award-winning You, Me & the Big C Podcast talks to us about the impact cancer can have on fertility. He and his wife Rachael had their embryos frozen before she started treatment for cancer. "We have 3 or 4 embryos in the freezer...I've been asked before in interviews if I'd ever do anything with them and I really don't think I ever would." Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humb...

In this week's episode we speak to Kat who has written about her fertility issues in a poem and the fact she won't ever have children. "You can make a life even if you don't have children." "You will survive." "Bottom line, you're worth more than your womb." This podcast is about IVF and fertility. Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from other...

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything to do with fertility. This week we meet Alice Rose, a fertility mindset mentor about how to deal with the struggle to conceive. She...

"I see it as an option, are you going to have ketchup or mayonnaise on your burger, I'm like am I going to wait to find someone or am I going to have a baby on my own, I see it as a normal decision." Amy Hart spoke to us earlier this year (before revealing she has a new boyfriend) about why she would consider doing IVF alone. She decided to freeze her eggs after having a fertility MOT. In the BBC'...

Former 'Strictly Come Dancing' star Ola Jordan talks about IVF & we get some tips on eating well when trying to conceive. "(fertility) is a hard subject, people don't really talk about it because some people don't want to but for us it was the best thing we could have done, tell everyone. The pressure was off." In this podcast Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tyin...

Lots to talk about in this series, and some great guests, plus some very BIG news from one of our ladies. (Trigger... this episode talks about pregnancy so if you're not feeling strong enough to listen, maybe save this one for another time).

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything to do with fertility. In the final episode of the series we meet Cathryn, a single parent who conceived her daughter using a donor e...

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything, this week we talk about age and does it really matter how old you are to become parents? Harry & Helen experienced some negativ...

In the podcast Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles trying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. This week Harriet tells us how she's managed to keep going. She's had both fallopian tubes removed and there’s very little chance of her falling pregnant naturally...

In the podcast Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Warning, there is talk of pregnancy in this episode! “I wouldn’t have cared whether we’d had a little boy or a little girl as long as they get to come home with us...