The Make A Baby Podcast

Join the free Receive & Conceive Challenge here: https://carolinasotomayor.com/receiveandconceive What if your womb is not blocked because something is “wrong” with you… but because you no longer feel emotionally safe enough to receive? In this episode of the Make A Baby Podcast, Carolina Sotomayor shares one of the biggest reasons women struggle to get pregnant after trying everything from IV...

Are the beliefs you were handed as a child quietly running your life — and blocking your fertility? Most women trying to conceive never think to look at their inherited religious beliefs as a source of womb blocks. But if you've been taught to make yourself small, submit to others, and never ask why — your nervous system and your womb are listening. If you're healing your womb but skippi...

Are you doing everything right on your fertility journey but completely overlooking what's on your plate? Most women trying to conceive focus on tracking, treatments, and tests — but never get real guidance on how food directly impacts their egg quality, hormones, and chances of implantation. And the advice they do get? Just "take a prenatal." Jillian Beck-Rogers is a certified fert...

Are you feeling the pull toward something more — but too afraid to call yourself a witch? Many women sense that their healing gifts, their intuition, and their connection to nature are something powerful — but years of cultural conditioning have taught them to shrink from it, hide it, or call it something safer. Eileen March was a midwife for over a decade before burnout sent her searching for a d...

Are you going through IVF without truly understanding what's happening to your embryos behind that lab door? Most women pour everything into IVF but are never told what the embryologist is actually doing — so every phone call from the clinic feels devastating instead of expected. Victoria Wigley is an embryologist with nearly 18 years of experience who now consults directly with patients to b...

What if your diagnosis doesn't have to be your destiny? You may be accepting a frightening label as a final answer when your womb already knows the way back to wholeness. Holly Lamb was diagnosed with early menopause at 35, ditched the HRT that made her feel numb, and healed herself through womb work and cyclical living. Now she helps women clear what's energetically blocking their wombs...

Are you doing everything "right" on your fertility journey and still feeling like something is missing?   Too many women trying to conceive are unknowingly working against their bodies, taking the wrong supplements, obsessing over fertility trackers, and ignoring the one thing that predicts everything: their energy. The medical system was never designed to give you the full picture, and...

Could the emotional patterns from your childhood be the hidden reason you're struggling to conceive? So many women on their fertility journey are doing everything "right" — the tests, the supplements, the tracking — yet still feel stuck. What they don't realize is that unhealed emotional wounds, especially patterns of abandonment and neglect from childhood, may be quietly keepi...

Are you doing all the womb work but still feeling stuck? Your body may be holding wounds that your mind can't reach alone. Leslie Draffin is a womb mystic, somatic coach, and trauma-informed guide who helps women heal through somatics and microdosing mushrooms as a sacred ally. BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER: What microdosing mushrooms actually is and the green and red...

Have you ever wondered what your womb healer's own fertility journey actually looked like? In this special reverse interview, guest host Bethany Shipley asks Carolina the questions — and she holds nothing back. From childhood trauma and an abortion in her 20s, to losing her father and horse in the same year, to falling off a literal horse and getting one Reiki session that changed everything...

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You are invited to our Feb 17th Misconceptions of Conception Masterclass. You can reserve your spot here! How did I get pregnant after one Reiki session? I did not heal everything. I was grieving. I was not perfect. But my body did not need perfection. My womb needed emotional safety. So if you’ve been trying to fix everything and you’re ready to feel safe enough to receive your baby, hit play and...

You are invited to our Feb 17th Misconceptions of Conception Masterclass. You can reserve your spot here! Do you want 2026 to be the year your womb finally feels safe enough to receive your baby? Most women focus on tracking, supplements, labs, timing. They never address the nervous system wounds sitting inside the womb. You do not have a productivity problem. You have an unhealed safety wound. If...

You are invited to our Feb 17th Misconceptions of Conception Masterclass. You can reserve your spot here! What does a womb healer actually do, and how does it impact your fertility? You might think womb healing is only about getting pregnant, but you could be missing the deeper emotional, energetic, and subconscious blocks affecting your body. If you’ve been trying to conceive and focusing only on...

You are invited to our Feb 17th Misconceptions of Conception Masterclass. You can reserve your spot here! What if your fertility struggle is not about your hormones, but about your sense of safety? You might be trying to conceive while telling yourself everything is fine, ignoring the grief, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation sitting in your womb, and wondering why nothing is working even th...

You are invited to our Feb 17th Misconceptions of Conception Masterclass. You can reserve your spot here! Do you want 2026 to be the year you finally get pregnant? If you keep trying to conceive while your nervous system lives in fear, pressure, and self-abandonment, your body will stay guarded instead of receptive. If your goal is to get pregnant in 2026, you must feel safe first. Safe in your bo...

➡️  CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Do you ever feel like you can’t trust yourself—your voice, your body, or your decisions? If you’ve been conditioned to question your own instincts, especially while navigating fertility and healing, you’re not alone. Many women are stuck in loops of self-doubt, unaware that trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and societal conditioning are at...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Have you ever swallowed your words to avoid conflict or keep the peace? Many women on their fertility and healing journeys silence their voices, believing it’s safer to stay quiet than to speak up. But that silence comes at a cost — it creates energetic tension, blocks your womb space, and keeps you disconnected from your power. The truth is, y...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Why do your emotions feel stuck in your body—like they’re taking up permanent space in your womb? You think you’re feeling your emotions, but what you’re really sitting with is the story you’ve created around them. That story—about not being safe, not being enough, not belonging—is what’s actually being stored in your womb and blocking your abi...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! What if your inner child is the reason your spirit baby hasn’t arrived yet? You might think fertility is only about your body, but your womb holds every memory, belief, and wound your younger self never got to heal. Ignoring her keeps you stuck in old patterns that block conception and your connection to your spirit baby. When your inner child...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Doing everything right but still not pregnant? In this powerful solo episode, host Carolina Sotomayor shares how one Reiki session helped her conceive after months of unexplained infertility. She opens up about the grief, trauma, and emotional shutdown that silently blocked her womb—and how healing created the space to finally receive. You’ll d...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Do you ever feel like you’re doing all the right things—but still feel totally disconnected from yourself? So many women pour themselves into their businesses, their relationships, and their responsibilities... but deep down, there’s a quiet ache. A sense of being lost, overlooked—even invisible. You’ve done everything “right,” and yet somethin...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! What if everything you thought you knew about your fertility timeline… was wrong? So many women are quietly wrestling with uncertainty about their reproductive future—stuck between societal pressure, biological realities, and unanswered questions. You might be feeling the pressure of your ticking biological clock or wondering if freezing your e...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Have you ever felt like fertility treatments have completely taken over your life—leaving little space for joy, rest, or even your relationship? You're not alone. So many women enter the world of IVF and holistic interventions with hope in their hearts, only to find themselves years later wondering where their joy went and why everything f...

➡️ CLICK HERE to join our free Make A Baby Community! Have you ever had a day so messy, so unexpected, it made you question everything—especially your chances of becoming a mother? You’re doing all the things. The supplements. The acupuncture. The perfectly-timed sex. And still—no baby. Then life throws you another curveball and suddenly you’re not just doubting your fertility… you’re doubting if...