ARCHIVAL: How It All Started — Anne & Jaimie on Infertility, IVF, and Building a Lesbian Family

Before The Queer Family Podcast had its name, it began as If These Ovaries Could Talk—a show Jaimie launched with original co-host Robin Hopkins. In this very first episode, Robin interviews Jaimie and her wife Anne as they share the real-time story of building their family as a lesbian couple: unexpected infertility, choosing a sperm donor, navigating IUI and IVF, and the emotional and financial reality of trying to have a second child. At the time, they couldn’t find many podcasts that talked honestly about queer fertility and LGBTQ+ family building—so they made t...