Choice Chat for Choice Moms
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Choice Chat for Choice Moms
The only podcast for single women who proactively choose motherhood. Hosted by: Mikki Morrissette
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Egg-freezing and other choices: Rachel's story
When faced with the prospect of building a family as a single woman, it can be overwhelming the choices we actually have. What do we really want? This...
Simplifying the Adoption Process
This conversation with Lee Varon, author of “Adopting On Your Own” helps to make the adoption process less overwhelming for the single woman. We talk...
Myths and Realities of Single-Parent Adoption
Private domestic adoption is an underestimated choice for many single women, largely because we tend to assume it’s too expensive, the wait time is to...
Birds and the Bees for Grownups
It’s amazing what we don’t understand when we’re actually TRYING to get pregnant. Three notable fertility doctors — Dr. Rani Abassi (Columbia Ferility...
Jealousy and Judgment
[this episode originally aired as a radio show in December 2009]
Holiday time can be difficult, especially if you are jealous of siblin...
Finding the Right Doula
How do you pick a birth coach, and what can they offer pre- and post-delivery? We hear the wonderful story of four Choice Moms who delivered two babie...
When fertility stress has you down
At a Choice Mom networking event in San Francisco, Maia Midwifery's Kristin Kali talked with women about how to balance the love they started with on...
Inseminating at Home
A roundtable of single women talked at a Choice Mom workshop about the at-home insemination process, their emotions about the Choice Mom journey, IUI...
Dr. Sears on Self Care
Especially if you are a new mom, single parents need stress-relief strategies and energy boosts. Noted pediatrician Dr. Robert Sears, a spokesperson f...
Legal and financial planning for the single parent
How do we take care of our child, legally and financially, as a single person with one paycheck? What do we need in place to protect our child if some...
Enhancing Fertility, Reducing Stress
How can yoga, massage, acupuncture and nutrition have an impact on fertility? We hear answers from the strong team at Pulling Down the Moon, who also...
Surviving Baby Boot Camp
Three Choice Moms discuss the tips and strategies they learned to get through the newborn stage, including Jennie, who works full-time while going to...
Lori Gottlieb: Marry Him
When Choice Mom Lori Gottlieb wrote in Atlantic Monthly that perhaps settling for Mr. Good Enough might have been the smart choice, it created a fires...
The politics of single parenting
There is no question but that single parenting evokes a wide variety of
emotions and viewpoints about how the kids in single-parent homes turn
De-stressing single parenthood
Did you know there are 10-minute solutions to detoxify the hassles of
the day? The smartest Choice Moms learn how to carve out special
mom...
Christine Coppa and unexpected pregnancy
In this June 10 Voice America radio show, host Mikki Morrissette talks with Christine Coppa, of Glamour,
who gave up a kind of "Sex in the City"...
The genetic factor: what we should know for our adopted and donor-conceived children
This one-hour June 17 Voice America radio show featured host Mikki Morrissette's conversation with author April Lynch ("The Genome Factor"), about wha...
Ryan Kramer: Finding half-siblings and donors
In this powerful show, we talk with with Ryan Kramer, the extremely eloquent teenager who co-founded Donor Sibling Registry with his mother Wendy. We...
My life as an anonymous sperm donor
In this unique, detailed show, we hear directly from a formerly anonymous sperm donor (now running this service for donor families), who contributed f...
Tracking pregnancies: why it’s important
A majority of families using donor conception do not report births after the fact. This has a tremendous impact on the industry -- for example, the nu...
Estate Planning Basics
Estate planner and Choice Mom Racheal Isan explains the basic options for anyone who is creating an estate plan for her child, including the differenc...
Creating an estate plan: the lesson from a Choice Mom's death
Two women share the story of a Choice Mom whose unexpected and tragic death -- leaving behind a son born posthumously -- remind us of the reason we ne...
Dating as a single mom
In this episode we hear from two single moms about how they have managed to include dating into their lives. First I talked with my friend Darla about...
What every Single Woman should know before becoming a Choice Mom
Recorded at the New York City Choice Mom event, this podcast features mental health counselor Joann Paley Galst discussing the basic tips she offers a...
Choice Mom Tricks: Part 2
Recorded at a San Francisco Bay Area networking event for Choice Moms, this show features the experience of Choice Moms founder Mikki Morrissette, the...
Choice Chat with Jennifer: support network in action
This episode features Jennifer, 8 months pregnant, who was part of a Choice Moms conversation circle that included six women talking about how we got...
Choice Mom Tricks: Part 1
In this show, recorded at a New York City networking event for Choice Moms, authors Mikki Morrissette and Louise Sloan talk about their Choice Mom jou...
Mary Pols: Accidentally on Purpose
This honest conversation with Mary Pols, author of Accidentally on Purpose, explores the emotions of a 39-year-old woman who unexpectedly found herse...
Answering the Daddy Question
Eventually every Choice Mom wonders how to address the inevitable "Do I have a dad?" question from their child. In this show -- excerpted from the new...
Talking out loud about grief
In this conversation with New York City-based therapist Joann Paley Galst, we talk about the intense feelings that were brought up in a recent Choice...
Rick Weissbourd: The impact of single-parent homes
Harvard educator Rick Weissbourd specializes in identifying what our kids need in order to grow up strong in today's culture. He is the author of The...
At-home insemination: everything you want to know but might be afraid to ask
This is a MUST listen for anyone who wants to understand more about how conception works. Kristin Kali of Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services ta...
Fertility Basics: What you need to know
We talk with Dr. Isabelle Ryan of Pacific Fertility Center (SF Bay Area) about the basic steps a woman needs to take if she is proactively trying to c...
Negotiating with a Known Donor
We talk with two unique experts in this episode about negotiating with a known donor. First is Jon, who has been asked by three women to consider bein...
Felicia: making the leap, miscarriages, and newborn days
In this conversation with Felicia, a therapist and Choice Mom, we get up close and personal about a common issue that isn't talked about much: coping...
What donor-conceived adults want to know
A classic concern of anyone who uses donor insemination is how the child will feel about it over time. In this show, we talk with two people who have...
Cathi: Finding humor in fertility adventures
Cathi has managed to find the humor in the ups and downs of her Choice Motherhood journey. From figuring out when (and how) to inseminate herself at h...
Lori Gottlieb: The Mr. Good Enough Debate
When Lori Gottlieb wrote an article about the merits of settling for Mr. Good Enough (Atlantic Monthly, March 2008), it set off a firestorm of debate...
Dealing with the emotions of fertility treatment
Using insemination to build a family is not usually anyone's ideal method to parenthood. Sometimes we feel grief about not sharing the process with a...
How to choose a sperm bank...carefully
There are important changes needed, and slowly happening, in the donor sperm industry. On this show host Mikki Morrissette talks with three people abo...