This week’s guest slid into my DMs and boy am I glad she did! Tayla, fiancé to Jess and mummy to 3-year-old Angus, is raw, real and so relatable. In this episode, she takes us through the step-by-step of at-home insemination with hilarious detail and finding their sperm donor through a Facebook donation group; an approach she jokingly calls the “low maintenance way to have a baby.”

She shares the rollercoaster of responses she received when reaching out for donor sperm in those groups (from the weird to the outright offensive) and the immense gratitude she felt when their family-building journey finally fell into place.

She’s candid about how she and Jess chose their donor, their ongoing relationship with him, and how she imagines Angus’ connection with him evolving in the future - drawing on her own experience of meeting her dad as a young adult.

Tayla is funny, candid, and refreshingly down-to-earth. You’ll love this kōrero.

Tayla also talks about the at-home insemination kit from Hāpu Helpers that she and Jess used to conceive (after ordinary syringes weren’t up to the task!). You can learn more about these kits here: https://hapuhelpers.co.nz/

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