About this episode

Dr. Aimee Baron discusses the family-building journey of Rabbi Megan and Paige GoldMarche, focusing on their experiences with infertility as a queer couple.

In this episode, Dr. Baron sits down with Rabbi Megan and Paige GoldMarche, a dedicated couple working within the Jewish communal space, to discuss the deeply personal and complex realities of their family-building journey. Together, they share the emotional, physical, and financial hurdles of facing infertility as a queer couple while holding a profound desire to build their future family. Megan and Paige reflect on the early days of their relationship, tracing the path from their initial meeting at a Shabbat dinner to a shared realization that they wanted to build a life together. Driven by a poignant sense of urgency tied to family health history and a deep desire for their future children to know their grandparents, they set out with a clear timeline. However, their plans were quickly challenged by the clinical realities of donor selection, expensive medical protocols, and the physical toll of consecutive unsuccessful intrauterine inseminations (IUIs). The conversation also explores the complex logistics unique to family building in LGBTQ+, including navigating insurance gaps, utilizing the open healthcare marketplace for secondary coverage, and shifting from local sperm…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Aimee Baron

Guests: Rabbi Megan, Paige GoldMarche

Topics covered

• family building
• infertility
• LGBTQ+
• donor selection
• IVF
• emotional journey

Keywords

• infertility
• queer couple
• IVF
• IUI
• donor selection
• family health history
• LGBTQ+ family building

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jewish communal space

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