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Welcome to Query.

Hey Query Rose, Cammy here. Oh my goodness, I am in a hotel room in New York,

and I cannot believe I pulled this episode together because the power went out right when I was

supposed to record. So I want to thank my guest today, Jenna Jaffee, for hanging in while I had

the power restored. She has an awesome organization called Connecting Rambos. We're going to talk

all about parental rights and IVF, stuff like that. Baby Talk. Hope you're doing awesome. Enjoy the

episode.

I always have guests introduce themselves. Would you introduce yourself?

Right now? Yeah, it's already started.

We're already doing it. Look at that. We are wearing it. I am Jenna Jaffee.

I am a mom of two little kids via reciprocal IVF that have with my wife, and I am a lawyer,

an influencer, and I found an organization for the LGBTQ community that we can chat about.

Yeah, let's chat about it. What do you mean you found an organization for the LGBTQ community?

Yeah, it's called Connecting Rambos. It provides free legal and fertility resources.

So my wife and I had our kids, and when I was pregnant with our first, we found out that

my wife was going to have to adopt them, our kids, because even though they genetically are hers,

because we used her eggs and I carried, I was considered the legal parent because I gave birth to them.

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