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Each year, more than 100,000 women use some form of doctor-assisted artificial insemination to try to get pregnant. Suzanne is one of these women. She's single, in her mid-40s, and has been trying for two years to get pregnant using a variety of methods. Team Long Haul follows Suzanne through her last invitro fertilization attempt – her last chance to have her own biological child – and documents the story of how she got to this point.
Babyquest was broadcast on All Things Considered.
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Each year, more than 100,000 women use some form of doctor-assisted artificial insemination to try to get pregnant. Suzanne is one of these women. She's single, in her mid-40s, and has been trying for two years to get pregnant using a variety of methods. Team Long Haul follows Suzanne through her last invitro fertilization attempt – her last chance to have her own biological child – and documents the story of how she got to this point. Babyquest was broadcast on All Things Considered.
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Babyquest was broadcast on All Things Considered.
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HOST INTRO:
Each year, more than 100,000 women use some form of doctor-assisted artificial insemination to try to get pregnant. Traditionally, these woman are married or in committed long-term relationships. But for a variety of reasons, more and more single women are choosing to become parents, with or without a partner.
Suzanne is one of these women. She's single, in her mid-40s, and has been trying for two years to get pregnant using what doctors call "assisted reproductive technology." Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, in association with Chicago Public Radio, have Suzanne's story.
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Our story on Suzanne was produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister for Long Haul Productions in association with Chicago Public Radio. Thanks to Jerrin Zumberg for her production help.
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Review of Babyquest
Great interview. Great subject. The documentary elements flow nicely together with the trips to the fertility clinic, interviews with the woman's mom and scenes with the sperm donor friend. (Language advisory: Masterbating) This is a timely and worthy profile of an often heartbreaking phenomenon unique to baby-boom age women who waited to have babies. The main interviewee acts an engaging narrator--honest, articulate and speaking for a whole generation. I liked this piece a lot except for most of the music transitions. I would lose much of the music and only use it when needed. I liked the ending music though it cut out rather than fading out. This ran on NPR so of course it would work well on any magazine show. Fertility is certainly a topic that most listeners would relate to and should be heard. Good work.