Due to a surgery in her 20s, Sara was unable to have children naturally. Her fear of regretting childlessness drove her to seek IVF in her late 30s, a journey that was physically, emotionally, and financially harrowing. Recognizing the relief she experienced after her treatments were unsuccessful, she realized that she had never wanted children and had just dodged a pronatalist bullet.

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To have or not have kids is one of the biggest decisions we make in our lives, and yet how many of us know that we even have a choice about how we define and create our families?

Beyond Pronatalism host Nandita Bajaj interviews women and men from diverse backgrounds who are courageously and creatively navigating pronatalism - the powerful pressures to have children - whether from family, friends, or the culture at large. Through intimate conversations, they discuss how they are forging unconventional pathways to fulfillment, including redefining what family means to them - whether that means being childfree or childless, having biological children, adopting or fostering children or animals, or creating close-knit communities of friends and loved ones.

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