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Roads to family : all the ways we come to be / by Ginocchio, Rachel HS, author.(CARDINAL)866171;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-139) and index."The ties that bind a family together can be complicated. People define family using genetics, legal commitments, physical and emotional connections, a combination of these, or something else entirely. A person's family can expand, contract, and adapt over time. One of the most common changes in a family involves adding children. But exactly how those children become part of a family can be a journey full of twists and turns. 'Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be' provides readers with a roadmap of the many routes prospective parents can take to bring children into their lives. Public health educator Rachel Ginocchio goes beyond the basics of human reproduction to break down how intended parents use insemination, in-vitro fertilization, donors, surrogacy, adoption, and more to grow their families. Accounts from real people with wide-ranging backgrounds and identities bring this compendium to life, highlighting the roadblocks and delights of their quest to build a family of their own. This informative and inclusive guide shines a spotlight on the beauty and complexity of what it means to be family"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Human reproduction.; Families.; Children.; Adoption.; Fertilization in vitro, Human.; Human reproductive technology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The latecomer [sound recording] / by Korelitz, Jean Hanff,1961-author.(CARDINAL)681959; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.(CARDINAL)347924;
Read by Julia Whelan.Follow the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings, Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally, feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets leave for college, Johanna, faced with being truly alone, makes the decision to have a fourth child. What role will the "latecomer" play in this fractured family?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Dysfunctional families; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Rich people; Siblings; Triplets;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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In vitro : on longing and transformation / by Zapata, Isabel,1984-author.(CARDINAL)875135; Myers, Robin,1987-translator.(CARDINAL)631263;
"Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced during fertility treatments, explores the force of grief in imagining possible futures, and confronts the societal expectations around maternity. In the tradition of Rivka Galchen's Little Labors and Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness, In Vitro draws from diary and essay forms to create a new kind of literary companion and open up space for nuanced conversations about pregnancy."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Anecdotes.; Zapata, Isabel, 1984-; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Pregnancy; Pregnancy; Parental grief;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood / by Brockes, Emma,author.(CARDINAL)552238;
"Are you going to do it, then?" -- Origin story -- The selfish gene -- tubes -- Sperm -- January 2014 -- Drugs -- Waiting -- Falling -- Rising -- England -- New Year's Eve -- Neonatal.From the author of "She Left Me The Gun," an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to have to be untraditional about it. From the moment she decides to stop "futzing" around, have her eggs counted, and "get cracking"; through multiple trials of IUI, which she is intrigued to learn can be purchased in bulk packages, just like Costco; to the births of her twins, which her girlfriend gamely documents with her iPhone and selfie-stick, Brockes is never any less than bluntly and bracingly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood. She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing one's sperm donor, grapples with esoteric medical jargon and the existential brain-melt of flipping through donor catalogues and conjures with the politics of her Libertarian OB/GYN--all the while exploring the cultural circumstances and choices that have brought her to this point. Brockes writes with charming self-effacing humor about being a British woman undergoing fertility treatment in the US, poking fun at the starkly different attitude of Americans. Anxious that biological children might not be possible, she wonders, should she resent society for how it regards and treats women who try and fail to have children? Brockes deftly uses her own story to examine how and why an increasing number of women are using fertility treatments in order to become parents--and are doing it solo. Bringing the reader every step of the way with mordant wit and remarkable candor, Brockes shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Brockes, Emma; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Infertility, Female; Mothers; Mothers.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Delicate condition / by Valentine, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)870113;
"The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens - while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she's gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her. Then her doctor tells her she's had a miscarriage - except Anna's convinced she's still pregnant despite everything the grave-faced men around her claim. She can feel the baby moving inside her, can see the strain it's taking on her weakening body. Vague warnings become direct threats as someone stalks her through the bleak ghost town of the snowy Hamptons. As her symptoms and sense of danger grow ever more horrifying, Anna can't help but wonder what exactly she's carrying inside of her...and why no one will listen when she says something is horribly, painfully wrong"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Horror fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Actresses; Pregnancy; Motherhood; Miscarriage; Childbirth; Infertility; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Cyberstalking; Motherhood.;
Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 33
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Avalanche : a love story / by Leigh, Julia,1970-author.(CARDINAL)420960;
"A personal account of the author's failed efforts to have a child discusses the agonizing realities of infertility and modern scientific approaches, recounting her struggles through various therapies before making the decision to end treatment and redirect her love elsewhere,"--NoveList.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Leigh, Julia, 1970-; Infertility; Infertility; Fertilization in vitro, Human;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Surrogate parenting / by Overvold, Amy Zuckerman.(CARDINAL)756298;
Subjects: Directories.; Artificial insemination, Human; Artificial insemination, Human; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Surrogate mothers; Artificial insemination.; Insemination.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The big freeze : a reporter's personal journey into the world of egg freezing and the quest to control our fertility / by Lampert, Natalie,author.(CARDINAL)895168;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-389) and index.The consultation -- Young, fertile, and fabulous -- An intimate geography -- Egg freezing's rise -- The orientation -- Hacking our hormones -- Why women freeze -- Optimizing fertility -- Not our bodies, not ourselves -- The stimulation -- Ready, set, trigger shot -- The femtech revolution -- Ovaries in overdrive -- The retrieval -- Scar tissue -- Fertility-industrial complex -- Great eggspectations -- The freeze -- Unviable -- Reproduction and reimagined -- A journalist and her ovary."A fascinating investigation into the lucrative, minimally regulated, fast-growing industry of egg freezing, from a young reporter on a personal journey into the world of cutting-edge reproductive medicine."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Ovum; Fertilization in vitro, Human.; Human reproductive technology.; Human reproduction; Cryopreservation of organs, tissues, etc.; Fertility, Human; Assisted reproductive technology.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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We don't talk about Carol : a novel / by Berry, Kristen L.,author.;
"In the wake of her grandmother's passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sydney than her own sister or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl in the photograph is her aunt, Carol, who was one of six North Carolina Black girls to go missing in the 1960s. For the last several decades, not a soul has talked about Carol or what really happened to her. But now, with her grandmother gone and Sydney looking to start a family of her own, she is determined to unravel the truth behind her long-lost aunt's disappearance, and the sinister silence that surrounds her. Unfortunately, this is familiar territory for Sydney: Years earlier, while she worked the crime beat as a journalist, her obsession with the case of another missing girl led to a psychotic break. And now, in the suffocating grip of fertility treatments and a marriage that's beginning to crumble, Sydney's relentless pursuit for answers might just lead her down the same path of self-destruction. As she delves deeper into Carol's fate, her own troubled past reemerges, clawing its way to the surface with a vengeance. The web of secrets and lies entangling her family leaves Sydney questioning everything-her fixation on the missing girls, her future as a mom, and her trust in those she knows and loves." --
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Family secrets; Missing persons; Journalists; African Americans; Infertility, Female; Fertilization in vitro, Human;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 33
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Waiting for Daisy : a tale of two continents, three religions, five infertility doctors, an Oscar, an atomic bomb, a romantic night, and one woman's quest to become a mother / by Orenstein, Peggy.(CARDINAL)382566;
This book is about loss, love, anger and redemption. It's about being a woman in a confusing, contradictory time. It's about testing the limits of a loving marriage. And it's about trying (and trying and trying) to have a baby. Orenstein's story begins when she tells her new husband that she's not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after she's done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal, from "fertility sex" to escalating infertility treatments to New Age remedies to forays into international adoption. Her saga unfolds just as professional women are warned by the media to heed their biological clocks, and just as fertility clinics have become a boom industry. Buffeted by one obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual in America and Asia, as she tries to hold onto a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures and disappointments.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Orenstein, Peggy.; Infertility, Female; Fertilization in vitro, Human; Human reproductive technology; Assisted reproductive technology.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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