SpermCast
Welcome to SpermCast, with actor, writer, and comedian Molly Hawkey. She wants a baby. The only problem is she's 40, single, and not exactly ready for motherhood. So she's on a quest - a quest for a sperm donor, and a quest for some personal growth. Each week you'll hear interviews with potential donors, but she'll also seek guidance from the pros: doctors, financial advisors, tarot card readers...whatever it takes. By the end of this series, if all goes according to plan, she'll find her donor and inseminate herself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Hey folks, the good news is I'm putting out new episodes! The not so great news is that the eps are exclusively on Patreon. Sorry about that! It's all I'm comfortable with at the moment.
Sign up at patreon.com/spermcast for just $2 a month you'll get two new episodes a month with some of your favorite returning guests (with some major developments) and new guests with their own wild stories. I hope you'll join me on Patreon! Ep...
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This week Molly talks with the fabulous Executive Director of the NY Milk Bank, Julie Bouchet Horwitz. We hear all about what lead Julie to become a board certified nurse practitioner and lactation consultant and finally, to co-create the NY Milk Bank. We learn about her international adoption, breastfeeding an adopted child, how the milk is screened and pasteurized, who donates milk and who needs milk. It's really fascinating. Plu...
Do you like it when two grown women break into tears on and off for an hour? Then you’re gonna love this episode! Molly talks with new friend, Jami Rudofsky, all about fostering-to-adopt as a single lady. The rough parts. The incredible parts. The private parts. Jk. I wish. No private parts.
lus Molly tries to explain her complicated genetic testing results.
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Molly's midwife Robin, who helped her through her TFMR in December, is retiring after 44 years of bringing babies into this world.
Robin is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). She graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing 1977, and from SUNY Downstate Midwifery School in 1985. Thanks to years as a labor and delivery nurse, early contacts with pioneers in obstetrics as well as her own experience as a mid...
Molly's ready to start exploring her options for the future. So this week she talks with new friend, Katy Finn, a NY based adoptive mom to two boys, and gets the inside scoop on adoption. We learn about the family triad, transracial adoption, open adoption, home study, adoption language, money money money money, and cheese caves.
If you've ever shared about your struggle to get pregnant, chances are you've been asked "why don't ...
Molly speaks with Kate Carson, who helps run the Ending a Wanted Pregnancy support group, whose TFMR story has been shared on the senate floor as well as across multiple publications (links below) and who helps relieve the suffering of women around the world with the warmth and insight of her kind words.
Activism for Planned Parenthood
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TFMR stands for Terminating a Wanted Pregnancy. It's what I had to do. And what it turns out, thousands of women have to do all the time. It's tragic, but what’s almost as tragic is that many of these women do not feel like they can be open about their experience. On top of the excruciating pain of their loss they also have to hide the truth of their circumstances and suffer in silence. I hope by talking about my experience and sha...
This week Molly talks boobs with lactation consultant and co-founder of Milk Matters Lactation Consulting, Jillian Carter. Jillian is the lovely lady who helped Molly get her milk flowing for donation. In this ep we learn all about breast anatomy, how milk is made, Montgomery glands, colostrum, pumping, and techniques to increase and decrease lactation.
Check out Milk Matters online.
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Trigger Warning - loss, miscarriage, abortion
Molly’s returns to SpermCast with author and psychologist, Dr. Jessica Zucker, discussing Molly’s recent TFMR (termination for medical reasons), Jessica’s own experience with a second trimester miscarriage, grief, abortion, the stigma surrounding perinatal loss and much much more. Plus you’ll hear updates on Molly's recovery.
Jessica's Website
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Hi all. I can't do an episode this week but I hope to talk to you very very soon. Lots of love.
Updating the Patreon regularly.
If you need to reach me you can email my mom at penny.hawkey@gmail.com and she will pass your message on to me.
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Molly hangs with her great old friend, Annie O'Connor, and hears the MOST ABSURD birth story ever. We'll learn all about NFP (natural family planning, natural births, the "ring of fire," placentophagy, and more! Plus mother Penny fills us in on how the pregnancy is going.
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We're talkin birth hypnosis today with birth doula and certified hypnotherapist Julietta Appleton! She's just wonderful! Give a listen.
Plus a couple updates involving kicks, blood pressure and nip-drips.
Check out Mind+Body Birth online.
Now check out Spinning Babies too.
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This week talks with TV writer Rachelle Williams about pregnancy, birth and motherhood and then Molly fills you in on the 20 week anatomy scan, you get to hear if the baby is a boy or a girl and how Molly feels about it, Penny joins to talk about the pregnancy (baby and body) at 20 and 21 weeks...and Molly tells you all about her drive back to NY. WOW!!!
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