47 episodes

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside.
***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***
You can contact Natalie and Amanda fertility@bbc.co.uk or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby.

Sex, Drugs & Lullabies BBC Radio Humberside

    • Society & Culture

Amanda White and Natalie Glanvill talk through their struggles tying to conceive and hear from others talking honestly and openly about their fertility challenges in a podcast with both hope and despair in equal measure. Each week we will chew the fat over everything. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside.
***Contains strong language and adult conversation.***
You can contact Natalie and Amanda fertility@bbc.co.uk or Twitter @sexdrugslullaby.

    Our journey back to Hull Royal

    Our journey back to Hull Royal

    Natalie and Amanda return to the clinic where their fertility journeys began.

    • 15 min
    ‘We’re a family of two Dads’

    ‘We’re a family of two Dads’

    Michael and Wes are two gay man who wanted to be parents.

    • 15 min
    Becoming new parents, at 58 and 61

    Becoming new parents, at 58 and 61

    Harry Gration was a much loved presenter of BBC Look North, who died last year.
    Back in 2019, as part of the Sex, Drugs and Lullabies Podcast, Natalie Glanvill and Amanda White spoke to Harry, and his wife Helen, about their journey to have another child, at the ages of 68 and 51.

    • 13 min
    ‘I faced secondary infertility’

    ‘I faced secondary infertility’

    Helen Davies was already a mother – but she desperately wanted a second child.

    • 19 min
    ‘It feels like I’ve been run over’

    ‘It feels like I’ve been run over’

    Kay has faced multiple miscarriages. She talks about finding the courage to keep trying.

    • 17 min
    ‘I’m breaking the silence about Black infertility’

    ‘I’m breaking the silence about Black infertility’

    Kat has a condition which means she has heavy periods, which makes conception difficult.

    • 3 min

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