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6. Living without a child

Leanne Cloudsdale talks about her desire to have her own child & Natalie asks Amanda's husband Andy, how he feels about not having children.

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk about their personal experience of IVF treatment. Contains strong language and adult conversation.

In this episode they speak to Leanne who has written an article called 鈥楾he Shit Sandwich鈥. She is currently childless and frustrated with her body for not giving her the baby she wants.

鈥淚 would allow someone to paralyse me with an injection if at the same time it can make me pregnant with that one in injection.鈥

鈥淵ou fall into this level of desperation because you just think, you don鈥檛 understand this biological urge to be a mum and it鈥檚 my god given right to be a mum and actually it鈥檚 a privilege to be a mum.鈥

Contact: fertility@bbc.co.uk, or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby

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Wed 11 Mar 2020 21:00

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  • Tue 17 Dec 2019 21:00
  • Wed 11 Mar 2020 21:00

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