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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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We're very excited this week to welcome everyone's favourite Youtube couple to the studio - it's Rose and Rosie!
As a same-sex couple, finding information on how to start a family is not easy. Rose and Rosie open up to Gi about the challenges of navigating a heteronormative healthcare system, from choosing a sperm donor, to IUI vs IVF, and what it's like to be the 'other mother.'
Plus, they discuss feeling the pressure to get everything right as a same-sex parent, Rose’s struggle with feeling rejected by her son, and Rosie’s experience with postpartum depression.
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0:00.0 | Coming up on Happy Mom, Happy Baby. |
0:03.0 | I don't know if you've ever heard, but in lesbian relationships, |
0:06.0 | there's one who does all the driving and one who knows horoscopes, and that's absolutely accurate. |
0:10.0 | He was all about Rosie to the point where I didn't exist for at least 18 months, |
0:14.0 | and I found that really difficult. |
0:16.0 | It was so hard. |
0:17.0 | I put so much into everything and I got nothing. And it's hard for both of us because for example, |
0:21.6 | he'd only want to be carried by me and then I'd be tired, |
0:24.6 | but Rose couldn't even help me. |
0:26.6 | I feel like there's a lot of pressure on us as two same-sex parents to get this right. |
0:31.6 | And there's going to be a lot of opinions being like, |
0:33.6 | you shouldn't have said this, you shouldn't refer to this person as that. |
0:35.6 | Is it equal? Do they feel at a loss? I'm worried I'm going to make a mistake, I am. |
0:39.1 | I'll tell you what I have watched. I've watched the tear. |
0:41.3 | I've watched it. I've watched it. |
0:42.7 | Rose was like, do you want to see it happen? I was like, yeah. |
0:44.9 | So I've watched that and I've showed everyone. |
0:46.8 | Every! |
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1:11.6 | Now my three kids are all very different in terms of what they love when it comes to maths and |
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