The Babymakers : A Fertility Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Often regarded as a “last resort” medicine, acupuncture is added to a fertility patient’s protocol when nothing else has worked. But HOW does acupuncture actually help improve fertility? Why do fertility patients love it so much?!

In this episode, Danica interviews fellow fertility acupuncturist and colleague, Laura Erlich, for an insightful conversation that explains the unique role acupuncturists can play when they join the fertility patients’ team.

We’re experts as perspectivizing this tough time, skilled at restoring hope and known for consistently presenting ways to “think outside the box” to view your situation with more patience and grace.

Let’s face it - our world is changing. We’re evolving to be more reliant on technology, and that includes how we build our families.

This episode takes the sting out of doing IVF and reminds us all that we’re part of something bigger…

To work with Laura Erlich, visit mothernurturela.com.

To save 20% on any course within SeedFertility.com, enter promocode BABYMAKERS20 at checkout.

Sharing tips, strategies and success stories that inspire… these doctors’ episodes inform and help women and couples to better understand their options; from a holistic and biomedical standpoint.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This episode is sponsored by:

wellpeople Integrative Healing (wellpeoplehealing.com)

The Seed Fertility Program- (seedfertility.com PROMO CODE: BABYMAKERS20)

In this very personal episode, Danica recounts her experience with Family Constellations facilitator, Leah Kalish of Los Angeles, exposing the healing power that awaits us once we release **generational trauma we’ve inherited from our parents…

If your fertility journey has solely consisted of discouraging lab values, poor egg counts, procedures and protocols, you’ll find this discussion about Family Constellations & Embodiment Processing (somatic work) refreshing; as Leah Kalish explains how this subtle form of healing reorganizes your physiology to create more order and more alignment with optimal health and abundance.

Healing the “mother wound” is a big one for many of us struggling with fertility issues. Making the choice to open our hearts and wombs to a greater flow of energy within the field of consciousness and divine love allows old trauma to be integrated.

This type of shifting feels like a new imperative, especially as we are consciously creating a more evolved future generation!

Leah Kalish is accepting new clients. To construct your own Family Constellation and experience the somatic embodiment process explained in this episode, visit LeahKalish.com.

The Babymakers Fertility Podcast is brought to you by SeedFertility.com. Listeners will receive 20% off the price of any Seed Fertility course using the promocode BABYMAKERS20 at checkout.

Thinking about hypnosis can conjure up a mental image of spinning eyes and possible manipulation (!!), but… allowingoneself to be guided into a trance state can be exactly what patients need in order to create important changes on the subconscious level;

This episode will explain how certified hypnotherapist Iris Sutalo uses the science of neuroplasticity to calm her clients’ anxiety, and using very little “woo woo” flowery language, she moves them beyond their limited beliefs, outdated patterning and mental blocks — those nagging doubts that so frequently crop up when we’re on the path to baby.

A session typically begins by creating a SAFE SPACE, staying attuned to what’s happening in the PRESENT MOMENT, and helping them to RELAX are the first steps in creating a successful hypnosis session that can play a valuable role in setting up a future that consists of a NEW story…

Making the bedroom safe again after IVF and infertility” is rarely talked about but it’s one of the more common and vulnerable topics that show up everyday in the treatment rooms of fertility acupuncturists.

This interesting conversation between Danica and Dr Denise Wiesner, L.Ac., DACM, a fellow acupuncturist & author of Conceiving With Love, reveals how they serve the community, filling in as “wise women mystics”, with the unenviable task of keeping patients focused on what truly matters; especially when life starts to revolve around a new type of burning desire — the biological imperative to become parents.

For fertility acupuncturists, life becomes rich with the rewards of helping patients pick themselves up after multiple cycle attempts fail and disappointment occurs month after month, when they face unexpected delays, and confront a myriad of tough life choices.

Danica and Denise dish about their role to provide “holistic and emotional support” and what it means to help perspectivize their patients when they’re presented with controversial decisions and heartbreaking choices; such as: what to do with mosaic embryos, discovering a bicornuate uterus, conceiving multiples and selective reduction, facing new fertility changes in a post-pandemic era, and overcoming the anxiety/depression that arises when perimenopause looms…

These are just a few of the stressful issues that can be less harrowing if you have a skillful holistic team in place. Our goal for this episode is to help you know that if you’re dealing with infertility, you don’t have to face it alone.

To schedule or learn more about Dr Denise Wiesner, L.Ac., DACM, click here: https://naturalhealingacupuncture.com/

To work with Danica and her team of holistic providers, either virtually or in-person in Los Angeles, visit wellpeoplehealing.com.

This episode is sponsored by SeedFertility.com, the leader in online fertility education… Empowering fertility patients worldwide using a combination of Fertile Thoughts and Fertile Foods.

Use promocode BABYMAKERS20 to receive 20% all courses at SeedFertility.com and take back some control in a journey that feels out of your control.

We’re kicking off Season 2 of The Babymakers by bringing back Larissa Laskin and getting inside Danica’s head — to understand how and why she created The Seed Fertility Masterclass.

The two women dish about the emotions, the triumphs, the recipes, the twists & turns, and personal growth that occurs when we’re building a family.

Truly understanding and accepting what’s happening and taking a completely different look at the process of trying to conceive — that’s what helps women become mothers.

The wisdom, confidence and personal development that happens along the way is what makes our fertility journey worthwhile.

Join Danica and Larissa now as they reconnect and reflect on the various applications of Danica’s online offerings, and what she’s learned about the women who’ve used her courses successfully.

Babymakers listeners can receive 20% off any course at SeedFertility.com, using the promo code: BABYMAKERS at checkout.

If you’ve been trying unsuccessfully for one year or longer to conceive, you’re likely frustrated and scratching your head about what to do with a diagnosis of ‘UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY’…

In this episode Danica interviews Dr Nina Vyas of California Fertility Partners to discuss the rationale behind a step-by-step process of elimination to screen for impediments to pregnancy.

You’ll appreciate this check list of sorts… as Dr Vyas starts with a thorough discussion of the OVARIES, then she covers all tests relevant to the UTERUS, and then MALE FACTOR.

If you’ve been looking for answers, this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

To contact Dr Nina Vyas, visit CaliforniaFertilityPartners.com or call 310.828.4008.

Fertility treatment can create heightened anxiety for even the most pragmatic women. Particularly during the quarantine, fertility anxiety went off the charts, and the layers of stress were correlated with poorer outcomes for the women and couples trying to conceive.

What we learned from that era is valuable and so important now, as we face different life challenges and new sources of perceived stress.

In this episode, Danica sits down with former fertility patient Sarah Adina to retell her story as a wild but beautiful adventure — now that she’s made it to the other side, a.k.a. Parenthood.

This episode is sponsored by seedfertility.com - the first online resource for fertility. Save 20% of any fertility course using code BABYMAKERS at checkout.

The episode is also sponsored by wellpeople Integrative Healing Center in Los Angeles.

Follow for updates on Instagram @wellpeoplehealing. Or schedule a session here: www. Wellpeoplehealing.com.

Thank you for listening! Please subscribe for notifications on next week’s episode. We welcome your questions and comments at @babymakers_podcast.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

Trusting again in our body after multiple disappointments eventually leads to birthing ourselves as parents”, says world famous birth doula Lori Bregman.

Finding areas of the babymaking journey where we can “reframe” what’s not happening into something that elevates us is so much better than being inauthentic with toxic positivity.

This episode is a combination of woo woo and honest shares - we’re talking about what really happens during pregnancy, birthing and when things go so differently than planned.

It’s a conversation that revolves around supporting women, helping them keep the faith when it’s hard, and introducing them to spiritual concepts, energy work and true healing after heartbreak.

An open mind and an open heart help us to trust the process…

Words matter, and what we THINK about our journey matters to us on a subconscious level. Using the power of visualization and repetition helps us attract what we desire and what we believe we deserve.

Patient advocacy and birthing education that empowers patients? That’s how Lori steers her clients to avoid potential birthing trauma… she guides them to an experience they can reflect back on positively, many years later.

Here you’ll learn about the “Aqua-dural” — a water birthing experience where women give birth at home with midwives; calmly welcoming a new baby into the world.

After listening, you may want to join “The mama portal” - Lori’s virtual online community where members can get their questions answered and connect with other women making their way to pregnancy or onto a successful delivery.

How we “show up” for this journey reveals where we are on our personal unfolding; so take a deep breath… sit back and prepare for the woo of baby-making, because taking this pathway really can make a positive difference.

How to Contact Lori for an individual session? Email loribregman@loribregman.com

On Instagram @lbreggy

Be sure to check out Needed.com for fertility, pregnancy, women’s health supplements for each stage of life.

This episode is sponsored by seedfertility.com - the first online resource for fertility. Save 20% of any fertility course using code BABYMAKERS at checkout.

The episode is also sponsored by wellpeople Integrative Healing Center in Los Angeles.

Follow for updates on Instagram @wellpeoplehealing. Or schedule a session here: www. Wellpeoplehealing.com.

Thank you for listening! Please subscribe for notifications on next week’s episode. We welcome your questions and comments at @babymakers_podcast.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This conversation takes listeners on a path inward to demonstrate how the process of “trying to conceive” has the potential to reveal a new version of ourselves.

Mindfulness, consciousness, breathwork and personal discovery are highlighted as techniques that women (and couples) may find helpful in overcoming the anxiety and nervous system upregulation that occurs during fertility treatment, and later, preparation for giving birth.

This episode describes how Danica met Lauren and how the two of them worked together to create “Yoga for the 4 Phases of the Menstrual Cycle” for people using the Seed Fertility Program.

Lauren blended her love for science, teaching, coaching and Yoga to create FertileFromWithin.com, her virtual fertility coaching program that guides women from stress to self-love, within the safety of community.

Fertility Yoga movements for each of the 4 Phases of the Cycle is an intuitive process; it has the power to take people out of their heads and into a more open part of their mind… allowing access to more “fertile potential.”

To learn more about Lauren Enright or to receive her FREE Mind-Body Toolkit, visit BreatheWithLauren.com. Her Instagram account Is @FertileFromWithin.

The 4-Phase yoga routine she created for Seed Fertility is now available and can found inside the SeedFertility.comMASTERCLASS.

Executive Producer: Danica Thornberry

Associate Producer: Miranda Ogletree

Audio Engineer: Patrick Edwards

This episode is sponsored by:

wellpeople Integrative Healing (wellpeoplehealing.com)

The Seed Fertility Program- (seedfertility.com PROMO CODE: BABYMAKERS)