An unfiltered, often funny and brutally honest podcast about infertility, IVF, pregnancy and everything in between.
Hosted by real life husband and wife; actor and comedian David Fynn and now real-life, pin cushion and hormone monster Lauren. The Baby Making Business talks openly about the hard stuff, and aims to create a community that reminds listeners, whatever their fertility journey looks like, that they are not alone.
SEASON 2. EPISODE 7 - C-SECTION, CODE BLUE AND AN UNPROFESSIONAL BABY
This week David and Lauren reflect on the arrival of baby Cashel.
Everyone has a (birth)plan until they get punched in the face, and we certainly did on this occasion.
We reflect on the road that took us here and how it would have been nice to have a drama free delivery after our tumultuous journey. The universe had other plans though.
T/W - This week we talk about childbirth.
Also - apologies for the slight drop in sound quality this week. We had some technical issues and we are new parents so didn't have the time or sleep banked to rectify it this week!
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7 Oct 2026
SEASON 2. EPISODE 6 - TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CASHMAS, AND THE END OF AN ERA
Lauren goes in for a routine scan and is kept in. The Baby is coming.
It's D-Day.
26 Aug 2026
SEASON 2. EPISODE 5 - NESTING, RISKS OF IVF ABROAD AND DEAD SPIDERS
This week, we’re talking about trust, transformation and two very different approaches to nesting. But drive each other bonkers in the process.
We start with the deeply troubling stories emerging from fertility clinics in northern Cyprus, where families say DNA testing has revealed that the sperm or egg donors they carefully selected may not have been the donors used to conceive their children.
It raises a question we’d never really thought to ask during our own fertility treatment: once your eggs, sperm or embryos disappear through that laboratory door, how do you actually know what happens next?
Having travelled abroad ourselves for IVF, we talk about the enormous amount of trust patients place in their clinics, what donor selection really means, the implications for children who may have been given the wrong genetic and medical history.
Then, things get a little more personal. Lauren goes existential on her third trimester; after years of infertility and IVF made her body feel medicalised, measured and scrutinised, pregnancy is beginning to feel increasingly primal. There is a growing sense of knowing this baby from the inside, his rhythms, movements and patterns.
It has also brought an unexpected feeling of connection to the women who came before her: mothers, grandmothers and generations of women who have carried and birthed babies before.
And while David has been there through every injection, appointment, scan and wobble, there is an uncomfortable realisation too: there is a part of this experience he will never completely understand. He's still able to help out with a dead spider live on air though.
We go in to detail on our opposing nesting techniques and how some day, someone on Netflix will make a documentary about the carnage that occurred over these few weeks in a quiet Essex suburb.
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