Choice Moms have their own online radio show!
The "Choosing Single Motherhood" online radio show, hosted by Choice Moms founder Mikki Morrissette, is specifically designed for the thousands of single women who build a family on their own, thanks to sponsors IntegraMed and California Cryobank.
The show is available for on-demand listening from your computer, or through i-tunes to your favorite listening device, thanks to webtalkradio.net. We launched July 2009, and are averaging 4,000 listeners per week. Join us for the discussion!
Says one of our listeners: "Just listened to the show about Answering the Daddy Question. Wow. I listened to several sections multiple times. There is so much in there. Beautifully done - WOW!"
Here's what you can listen to now:
- Show 23: Dr. Sears on Self Care, about stress relief and energy boosting for single parents. Also Dr. Charles Sims on cord blood banking, and Dr. Jim Toner on the use of a cervical cap versus syringe for at-home insemination.
- Show 22: Inseminating at Home: a roundtable of single women talk about the process, their emotions about the Choice Mom journey, IUI vs. ICI, one or two insems per cycle, and the value of acupuncture. Fertility Q&A: what is hostile cervical mucous?
- Show #21: How to build your support network. Fertility Q&A: how to deal with the stress of fertility treatment.
- Show #20: Dealing with jealousy and judgment, especially during the holidays. Includes psychologist Andrea Braverman, tips on genetic counseling, and impact of weight on fertility.
- Show #19: Parenting Alone, for More Than 25 Years
Results of the first-ever large-scale survey of Choice Moms: who are we?, as reported in Human Fertility journal. Conversation with Jane Mattes, founder of Single Mothers by Choice. Q&A: How do you thaw sperm correctly? Is there a way to prevent miscarriage?
- Show #18: Simplifying the adoption process
- Show #17: Trusting ourselves to tell the story to our kids
- Show #16: Who Are We?: Listening to Choice Mom stories Six women on the Choice Mom path -- moms through adoption and insemination, single women trying and waiting to become mothers -- share their stories of heart, hope, happiness and sadness.
- Show #15: Supporting Our Children. Three ways we can give our children what they need in our unconventional families, including supporting their need to understand and talk about their origins. We talk about the pending national donor registry, and the recent news that a sperm donor passed along a tragic genetic condition to at least 9 of his 24 offspring.
- Show #14: Lessons in hindsight: 3 common Choice Mom regrets, which is a highly recommended radio show to start with.
- Show #13: Selecting our men: donors and dates
- Show #12: How we survive newborn baby boot camp
- Show #11: Dating as a single parent
- Show #10:
Emotions of the Choice Mom journey, the anger, frustration, sadness, fear and joy we go through in each stage, from Thinking to Trying to Waiting to Becoming to Being a Choice Mom.
- Show #9: Finding the right doula, including the heartfelt story of a Choice Mom and doula who became a mother through adoption. More resources.
- Show #8: Myths and realities of single-parent adoption
- Show #7: Egg-freezing and other choices: Rachel Lehmann-Haupt's story
- Show #6: Birds and Bees for Grown-Ups: what you need to know if you're trying to conceive
- Show #5: Juggling the work-and-home life balance
- Show #4: The good, bad and ugly of single parenting
- Show #3: Enhancing your fertility, reducing your stress
- Show #2: Peace of mind by protecting you and your children legally and financially.
- Show #1: Raising donor-conceived kids.