Download or read book Dear Zoe Ukhona a Journey through Infertility and Adoption written by Pelle Hvenegaard and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials of the adoption system, they finally open the doors of their Copenhagen home to little Zoe Ukhona. Pelle’s account, told through letters to his daughter, is brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly tragic, and yet filled with warmth and good humour. It is a story of love, family, and hope. Highly recommended to those moved by Sarah Sentilles’ "Stranger Care" and "Finding Chika" by Mitch Albom. Pelle Hvenegaard first became world famous at twelve years old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film "Pelle the Conqueror". A career in television and broadcast journalism followed. He has written four books on themes of adoption, love and identity.
Download or read book Dear Zoe Ukhona written by Pelle Hvenegaard and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST RATED BOOK OF 2018 AND 2019 on Mofibo, Denmark's biggest e-book and audiobook platform. When one summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline, he knows right away: This woman will be the mother to his children. Their first meeting grows into a blazing romance, and it is quickly clear that the two of them want to have a family together - but biology toys with them. Dear Zoe Ukhona is Pelle Hvenegaard's honest, comic, tragic and heartwarming tale of the six-year fertility and adoption hell he and his partner had to go through before they could open the door to their apartment in Copenhagen with little Zoe Ukhona in their arms.We follow Caroline and Pelle's arduous inner journey, but we are also with them when - to keep themselves going - they travel to five continents before climbing to the top of Kilimanjaro to call out to their coming child, unaware that she had in fact been born just twenty days earlier in South Africa. This is a story of love and of dealing with life when it doesn't go the way you planned. A story about searching for happiness and meaning - and the joy of finding them both. From the foreword by Zindzi Mandela: "... on top of being a book about battling childlessness, it's a story of hope, a story of love, a story of fighting for happiness ... it's a story about the meaning of life." PELLE HVENEGAARD became world famous as a twelve-year-old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film Pelle the Conqueror. He has a degree in journalism and has worked in the TV industry for many years. This is his first of three books.
Download or read book Family Bound written by Carrie Ostrea and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics show that over two million couples will experience some type of infertility issue when they try to become pregnant. However, when you are one of those two million, you feel completely alone and believe that no one can truly understand what you are going through. This honest and revealing book documents one couple's long and arduous journey to become parents from the eyes of the author. The longer this process took, the more emotional and difficult things became, and the more the author relied on this journal to sort out all the emotions she was having. She never expected that this journal would last for years, hundreds of hormone shots and pills, blood draws, surgical procedures, terrorist attacks, international flights and the most emotional and financial roller coaster that she had ever been on. But she and her husband were desperate to become parents, to have their own child to love, to hug, to experience life with. By sharing their experience, this book offers insight into the emotional, physical and sociological effects infertility has on a couple's relationship, their families, friends and themselves as individuals. It also provides in-depth detail of popular infertility treatments, domestic and international adoption processes.
Download or read book Dear Zoe Love Dad Our Journey through IVF to the NICU to your 1st Birthday written by Ryan Richardson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I began writing to my unborn child as soon as my wife and I decided to have a child. Never could I have imagined what an amazing journey was set in motion. These intensely personal letters capture my hopes and fears as my wife and I progress through the various stages of IVF, our daughter's stay in the NICU, and our first year as a family. From giving my wife daily shots to staring at the various screens monitoring my newborn daughter, the book attempts to capture the emotions of a loving husband and father trying to be the man both his girls need. The book concludes with my honest, unadulterated reflections on having going through IVF and the NICU. My hope is that my candid sharing may help others gain a greater sense of the emotions involved in having an IVF or NICU baby.
Download or read book Journey to Our Children written by Kate Cargreaves and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book They Call Me Mom written by Jenny Cioto and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will bring you through Jennys struggle of infertility and adoption. Be prepared to cry and laugh as she unfolds how God worked in her beautifully messy life.
Download or read book The Faces of Hope written by Leslie Almand Reynolds and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey through infertility is a nightmare, plain and simple! Whether you are ever able to have a baby on your own, or continue on to adoption, the pressure is indescribable. The sadness and loneliness are sometimes so deep that your hurt no longer remains emotional, but becomes physical as well. You don't feel like you can do this any longer. Is it even worth it? Hope is God's gift for His children which He gives anew every morning. Our hope was realized in the adoption of our two beautiful boys, and we are so thankful we never gave up! Whether you are reading this while on the fertility "scream machine" or have reached the fork in the road of whether or not to adopt, we hope sharing our story with you will encourage you by knowing you are not alone, that we've been through it, survived it, and have come out of the valley of darkness. Hang in, hang on, and never lose hope!
Download or read book Dear Lois written by Karen Schlindwein and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Lois is a unique perspective of an adoption journey told through letters written to birthmothers, by the adoptive parents, as their children were growing up. The perspectives of the birth family, adoptive family, and adopted children take the reader on an emotional journey from the heartbreak of a couple facing infertility to the joy of family woven together.
Download or read book Our Adoption Adventure written by David Carter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The true story of a couple adopting two children--taking you on their journey from the despair of infertility and endometriosis, through their whole adoption journey in detail, including timelines....Their journey shows what it's really like preparing to be approved by the Adoption Panel, being 'matched' with a child, 'Introductions,' and getting the Adoption Order to legally adopt your child in the UK"--Back cover.
Download or read book The Brotherhood of Joseph written by Brooks Hansen and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While miracles in reproductive technology have brought joy to millions, those very advances have plunged many couples into an unrelenting cycle of hope and heartbreak. One failed attempt may lead to another and another—but how do you give up when there is always another doctor, another procedure holding out the possibility of conception and the child you yearn for? Brooks Hansen vividly captures the emotional turmoil he and his wife, Elizabeth, endured as they tried to conceive, the years their lives were put on hold, and the excruciating sense of loss. He writes too of the couple's journey through the bewildering world of adoption—a path to parenthood fraught with financial, legal, and emotional risks of its own. Offering men a chance to be heard and women a rare opportunity to view the struggle with infertility from a male perspective, The Brotherhood of Joseph brings to life the anger, frustration, humor, heartbreak, and sense of helplessness that come to dominate the husband's role. As his remarkable account reaches its finale in Siberia, however, Hansen's once again becomes the story of a husband and a wife who, even after years of medical frustration and fruitless paperwork, still must take one last risk together and trust in their most basic instincts before their new family can be born. "Literary grace that has the remarkable power to act as a lens" is how the New York Times Book Review has described Hansen's writing, and that grace has never been more evident than in this remarkable memoir.
Download or read book Dear Barbara Dear Lynne written by Barbara Shulgold and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dear Barbara, Dear Lynne is a heartbreakingly tender story of the desire for parenthood and the deepening friendship between two women who have known each other only on paper." "Barbara Shulgold and Lynne Sipiora met through the mail when one of them responded to a desperate letter the other had written to Resolve, a newsletter for infertile couples. These two brave women, complete strangers, bound by their common struggle to have a baby, began a correspondence that fortified them through three years of infertility traumas and adoption struggles - relying on each other for the support and understanding only another woman could bring. At first tentative, later deeply loving, the letters are an astounding document of friendship and the journey to motherhood. Dear Barbara, Dear Lynne is a testimony to the human spirit, the power of shared travail, and the joy of finally holding one's face against the soft, sweet skin of a day-old infant."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book How I Met My Son written by Rosalind Powell and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When journalist Rosalind Powell and her husband wanted to start a family, they had no idea of the journey that lay ahead. Encountering fertility issues and gruelling IVF treatment to no avail, but still determined to be parents, they set off on the adoption route. After many false starts and dashed hopes they eventually, and luckily, found their son. How I Met My Son is more than a memoir, it is an invaluable guide to the reality of adoption in the UK. Both joyful and heartbreaking, the path to becoming a parent is laid bare. The story explores the sadness of infertility, the rigours of IVF, the minefield of social services, the intensity of the assessment process, the difficulties of choosing a child (and being chosen) and the happiness and shock of finally bringing that child home. A candid, compelling and inspirational book about what it means to be a parent of a child that isn't, biologically, your own.
Download or read book Adopting After Infertility written by Patricia Irwin Johnston and published by Perspectives Press (IN). This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Maybe Baby written by Marcy Hanson and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Marcy Hanson ever wanted to be was a mom. The youngest of five in a boisterous, close knit family, she never anticipated that having children would be a problem. But when she settled down with her high school sweetheart and they decided to start trying to build their own family, what was supposed to be the simplest thing in the world became a battle of doctors, prayers, and crushed dreams. In No Maybe Baby Marcy shares her journey of infertility through raw honesty and hopeful humor. Starting with the first inclinations of a problem, then progressing through the a-typical adoption of three children, and ultimately ending with the painful decision to stop all further physical possibility of pregnancy, she recounts her journey through this taboo topic. Written as both a glimmer of hope for those struggling with infertility and a what-not-to-do guide for others, No Maybe Baby is the open story of hope, faith, and a girl who just wanted to be a mom.
Download or read book Barren But Not Broken written by Patanisha Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barren But Not Broken is a riveting autobiography and inspirational guide by Author, Attorney and Adoptive Mom Patanisha Davis. It outlines how she maneuvered through obstacles with infertility on her journey to motherhood. This book is a great read for people struggling with infertility, their family members who want to learn how to support them, or people considering adoption. Patanisha encourages her readers to keep the faith and to understand that delay does not equal denial. Allow yourself to see there is beauty in everything, including those things that at first glance appear to be stumbling blocks on our road to Forgiveness, Freedom, Redemption, Joy and Parenthood!
Download or read book Infertility and Adoption written by Roy Sokol and published by RoseDog Books. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 18 Years In The Making For This Child We Prayed written by Leanne Davey and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood is something incredibly special that most women want to experience in their lives. While some find pregnancy easy, there are some that find having a child an enormous challenge and for others, impossible. This is one mother's story of the trials, disappointments and excitement she and her husband, Ian, travelled on their road from infertility to family.Eighteen years is a lifetime. With attempts at IVF, fostering and overseas adoption not coming to fruition they had resigned themselves to only ever being a couple?then a miracle happened. This must-read book is a raw and honest account of the heartache, fears and excitement Leanne and Ian experienced, proving that miracles really do happen. Leanne's book is a real & thought-provoking account of the experience of infertility. However, it is more than just her experience. This book evokes compassion, joy & a deeper understanding of grief & loss in regard to infertility. Leanne has a compelling voice. I was engaged in her & Ian's journey. The disappointment, difficulties, the rawness with the joy & humour. I highly recommend this book to those who are dealing with infertility & the professionals that are engaged with them.Carol ComerfordMental Health Counsellor/Social Worker
