Geriatric Coffee Convos: We’re ‘Old Moms’, Of Course We Talk About It On A Podcast!
On this Geriatric Coffee Convos episode, Sonia and Jessica discuss how they got through the two week wait after doing IVF embaby transfers, the latest instagram reel trend (but make it the ‘we’re old moms’ version), they weigh-in on the surrogacy gestational carrier who was asked to terminate a healthy pregnancy by intended parents story, and give an update on the status of their new year’s resolutions.
Topics discussed in this episode:
Welcome to Geriatric Coffee Convos (13:34)
Anonymous Facebook Post About the IVF Two Week wait (14:56)
‘We’re Old Moms’ Instagram Reel (27:58)
Intended Parents Demand Surrogate Terminate Healthy Pregnancy — But She Decided to Have the Baby Anyway (37:46)
The Follow Through On NYE Resolutions (51:14)
“You’re going to drink more water? Oh, I thought you said you’re going to drink more wine…. But you said water, got it!”
If we decide to get the Grandma cut that our Grandmother’s had at our age! See this episode for a full explanation!
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Just In Case You Don’t Have a Costco Where You Live… Here are the coffee drinks Jess loves:
Pop & Bottle Vanilla Cold Brew Oat Milk latte + Collagen; shop it here!
‘We’re Old Moms’ Instagram Reel:
A Geriatric Mamas listener had suggested that we create one of those reels that goes like “We’re Geriatric Moms, So of course we…” a few days ago and we had talked about doing it- and wishing we had the time; but then one of Sonia’s high school friends sent this reel to us. It’s by two older moms named Stuart Brazell and Selah Victor- and it’s pretty close to what we would make! Instagram Handles: @StuartBrazell & @SelahVictor
Intended Parents Demand Surrogate Terminate Healthy Pregnancy — But She Decided to Have the Baby Anyway- People Magazine
A TikTok user named Heathyr signed up to be a surrogate in the middle of 2019 after she spent nearly five years wanting to get involved with the process.
"For me to be a parent, that is literally my favorite thing in the world," Heathyr says in a series of videos posted to her TikTok account. "And to be a surrogate, to give somebody else that feeling, like being a parent. That is why I wanted to be a surrogate."
Though it took a while for Heathyr to match with a couple, she eventually found one that she felt was "on the same page" as her. She says that from the beginning, she made it clear that the one thing that was very important to her was her stance on termination. Read the rest of the article on -People Magazine
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