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Lesbian TV presenter Narelda Jacobs on securing her sperm donor in a nightclub | PRIDE Daily’s Queer Cheer · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: same sex relationship. Australian TV presenter Narelda Jacobs has been
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  Speaker 3: married to wife Karina Nat since August 2024 and had
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  Speaker 3: daughter Sana a year ago. The baby was conceived using
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  Speaker 3: the turkey baster method, which doesn't actually involve said kitchen utensil.
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  Speaker 3: It's a plastic syringe, but anyway, you need someone to
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  Speaker 3: fill it. And that's where their friend Mitch came in.
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  Speaker 3: so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: It was Mardi Gras 2024. We were on the dance
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  Speaker 1: floor at 3am and I said to Karina, go.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like, oh, there's Mitch and like the
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  Speaker 3: So how to ask such an important, life-changing question.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, can we have your sperm?
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  Speaker 2: Can we make a baby?
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  Speaker 3: And he just said yes. And then I was like,
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  Speaker 2: And then we all hugged and cried and I think
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to ABC's Ladies We Need To Talk podcast, Narelda
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  Speaker 3: and Karina are Sana's main parents, with Mitch a regular
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