Featured in Million Podcasts’ Best Fertility Podcasts of 2025 - Named one of the Top 14 Fertility Podcasts worldwide, Talking Away The Taboo is a space for raw, real, and deeply Jewish conversations about infertility, loss, and everything in between..

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200. From Loss to Advocacy: A TFMR Journey with Clare Molnar

In this episode, Aimee sits down with Clare, a mother of three and reproductive rights advocate to discuss her experience with termination for medical reasons (TFMR). Clare shares how a complex twin pregnancy led to a heartbreaking decision and explains why she feels it is vital to share her story openly.

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199. Trusting Your Timeline: Claiming the Future on Your Own Terms with Emily Sklar

In this episode, Aimee sits down with Emily Sklar, a podcast producer and media personality, to discuss her proactive decision to freeze her eggs at age 35. After years of prioritizing her career, Emily opens up about her mother's influence and a professional pivot led her to claim her future by securing the possibility of motherhood on her own terms.

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My Passover Miscarriage [Re-Release]

In this special re-released episode, Aimee Baron, MD, founder of I Was Supposed To Have A Baby, shares her deeply personal experience with a second-trimester miscarriage. She explores the unique trauma of navigating a medical crisis while away from home for the Passover holiday and the lasting impact that loss had.

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194. Balancing Loss and Life: Navigating Pregnancy, Healing, and Parenthood

In this episode of Talking Away the Taboo, Aimee sits down with Shira Sussi, a registered dietitian nutritionist specializing in pregnancy and postpartum nutrition, for an honest conversation about pregnancy loss, the challenges of returning to work afterward, and her journey of building a family while holding joy and grief simultaneously.

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188. The Many Ways to Become a Mother: Pamela’s Story of Infertility, Postpartum Depression, and Adoption

Like so many, Pamela Krooth, LCSW, spent years trying not to get pregnant, only to find herself aching for the thing she once assumed would come easily. What followed was a long, emotional road marked by pain, heartbreak, and the slow, painful shift between expectation and reality.

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186. Grief Without a Funeral: Emergency Hysterectomy and Reproductive Trauma with Danielle Mizrahi

In this episode, Danielle Mizrahi shares her unique fertility journey — one that challenges our assumptions about what “fertility struggles” look like. From the joy of welcoming her third child to the unexpected trauma that followed, Danielle opens up about grief that doesn’t come with a funeral, the profound loss of her ability to have more children, and the moments when her pain felt invisible.

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185. It’s Not Just Her: Male Factor Fertility and Genetics Uncovered

In this episode, we’re digging into male factor infertility: what it means, how it’s diagnosed, and how it impacts couples emotionally, physically, and relationally.

We’re joined by Paul Kassebaum, a quantum physicist, and his wife Julia Cohen, an economist as they open up about the medical and emotional twists and turns of their path. We also bring in experts: Dr. Ariel Moradzadeh, a reproductive endocrinologist, and Abbe Golding, a genetic counselor at Jscreen.

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183. When the Rabbi Is Also the Mourner: A Conversation with Rabbi Elon Soniker About His Son, Uriel

In his first-ever podcast conversation, Aimee sits down with Rabbi Elon Soniker, author of Uriel’s Light, to talk about faith, family, and finding meaning after unimaginable loss. Rabbi Soniker shares the story of his son, Uriel, his brief but powerful life, and the light that continues to shine through his memory.

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127. How My Egg Donor Journey Connected Me To My Heritage with Emily Getz

Emily Getz joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about how she and her husband had their first child naturally and never expected that it would be difficult trying to build their family, her stillbirth and multiple miscarriages, 1 ectopic, 4 rounds of IVF and still no baby, and the grief, shock, loss and heartbreak that were almost pushed to the side as they pursued every possible step in order to try to have another child.

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