Ep 44 | Mental Health & Family Building with Lori Metz, LCSW

On this episode of Fertility Cafe, Eloise gets to talk to Lori Metz who is a licensed Clinical Social Work/Therapist and certified case manager. She works with individuals, couples, and families and specializes in relationships and fertility.

She is the creator of I Dreamed of You: The Story of an Egg Donor Baby a children’s book about egg donation written for a young audience to introduce the essential conversation of honest and honored origins and has her own podcast, LOVE: 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝐹𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒s. Lori is also the originator of the “Ask Initiative” a mission and petition which aims to improve health outcomes and normalize third-party reproduction by including such options on medical intake forms under family history.

This episode, Eloise and Lori talk about:

• How fertility and family planning are associated with mental health
• What an infertility diagnosis can do to the marriage of a couple
• Increasing awareness for medical institutions to become more inclusive
• What shifts and changes we can expect to see in society

Resources

• Learn more about our Guest: Lori Metz’s podcast: Life, Lori on Instagram
• Please sign the Support Third-Party Family Building petition: change.org/thirdpartyreproduction
• Learn more about our podcast: Fertility Cafe
• Learn more about our surrogacy and egg donation agency: Family Inceptions
• Learn more about independent surrogacy: Surrogacy Roadmap
• On the blog: Us Surrogacy Map
• On the blog: A Beginner’s Guide to Fertility Acronyms

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