Download or read book I Dreamed of You written by Lori Metz and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Dreamed of You tells a story of how the parent and child came to be together. Lori Metz is a licensed clinical social worker, certified in case management and broad certified in telemental health. Lori has had the privilege of working with individuals, couples & groups and hosts a podcast called LIFE, love, insight, fertility, experiences. I Dreamed of You was written in response to the experiences encountered by many of those I've worked with as they attempted to find balance and comfort in their donor egg journeys. I Dreamed of You Is a way to open up this important and impactful conversation. It allows the mother to embrace all of the love, caring, nurturing, and desire she gave to the child from contemplation to birth and beyond. It takes so much love to tell the story of how the child came to be, and this..... is a love story. "Lori Metz brings her compassionate love and grounded wisdom to help families come to greater acceptance, understanding and celebration of their journey with egg-donation. This book is a gift that parents and their children will appreciate and treasure! "Dr. Miriam Pineles, DACM, L.AC. "A reproductive tissue donor (egg, sperm or embryo) is an important partner in family building for hundreds of thousands of families. They say that DNA does not make a family- LOVE does. That resonates with many of us who have adopted aunties, uncles, cousins etc into their tribe, who have strained or non-existent relationships with "blood relatives", who have blended families of any kind. Biology is not destiny! "Who we are" is shaped by our environment, by our education and upbringing. Being a parent is NOT defined by genetics. I 'Dreamed of You' is a comforting ritual for anyone on a family building (through reproductive tissue donation or otherwise) journey." Carol Lunn Curchoe, PhD, Reproductive Physiologist & Founder, ART Compass www.artcompass.io "This book is a wonderful tribute to the love between parent and child and the journey many parents embark on to meet their babies." Dr. Meivys Garcia, Reproductive Endocrinologist & Fertility Specialist

Download or read book A Tiny Itsy Bitsy Gift of Life written by Carmen Martinez Jover and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A touching children's story of how a happy couple of rabbits have their own baby by means of egg donation"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book I Dreamed of You the Story of an Egg Donor Baby written by Lori Metz and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Dreamed of You tells a story of how the parent and child came to be together. Lori Metz is a licensed clinical social worker, certified in case management and broad certified in telemental health. Lori has had the privilege of working with individuals, couples & groups and hosts a podcast called LIFE, love, insight, fertility, experiences. I Dreamed of You was written in response to the experiences encountered by many of those I've worked with as they attempted to find balance and comfort in their donor egg journeys. I Dreamed of You Is a way to open up this important and impactful conversation. It allows the mother to embrace all of the love, caring, nurturing, and desire she gave to the child from contemplation to birth and beyond. It takes so much love to tell the story of how the child came to be, and this..... is a love story. "Lori Metz brings her compassionate love and grounded wisdom to help families come to greater acceptance, understanding and celebration of their journey with egg-donation. This book is a gift that parents and their children will appreciate and treasure! "Dr. Miriam Pineles, DACM, L.AC. "A reproductive tissue donor (egg, sperm or embryo) is an important partner in family building for hundreds of thousands of families. They say that DNA does not make a family- LOVE does. That resonates with many of us who have adopted aunties, uncles, cousins etc into their tribe, who have strained or non-existent relationships with "blood relatives", who have blended families of any kind. Biology is not destiny! "Who we are" is shaped by our environment, by our education and upbringing. Being a parent is NOT defined by genetics. I 'Dreamed of You' is a comforting ritual for anyone on a family building (through reproductive tissue donation or otherwise) journey." Carol Lunn Curchoe, PhD, Reproductive Physiologist & Founder, ART Compass www.artcompass.io "This book is a wonderful tribute to the love between parent and child and the journey many parents embark on to meet their babies." Dr. Meivys Garcia, Reproductive Endocrinologist & Fertility Specialist

Download or read book Happy Together written by Julie Marie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Together is a heartwarming book to help introduce the concept of egg donation to a young child. A story told through clear language and cheerful illustrations, readers will join Mommy and Daddy bear on the journey to fulfill their greatest wish of becoming parents. With help from a doctor, an egg from a special lady called a donor and Daddy's seed, a baby grew in Mommy's tummy and was welcomed with great joy. Happy Together will comfort children with the assurance of being very much wanted and loved!

Download or read book Her Daughter s Mother written by Daniela Petrova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She befriended the one woman she was never supposed to meet. Now she's the key suspect in her disappearance. For fans of The Perfect Mother and The Wife Between Us comes a gripping psychological suspense debut about two strangers, one incredible connection, and the steep price of obsession. Lana Stone has never considered herself a stalker--until the night she impulsively follows a familiar face through the streets of New York's Upper West Side. Her target? The "anonymous" egg donor she'd selected through an agency, the one who's making motherhood possible for her. Hungry to learn more about her, Lana plans only to watch her from a distance. But when circumstances bring them face-to-face, an unexpected friendship is born. Katya, a student at Columbia, is the yin to Lana's yang, an impulsive free spirit who lives life at the edge. And for pragmatic Lana, she's a breath of fresh air and a welcome distraction from her painful breakup with her baby's father. Then, just as suddenly as Katya entered Lana's life, she disappears--and Lana might have been the last person to see her before she went missing. Determined to find out what became of the woman to whom she owes so much, Lana digs into Katya's past, even as the police grow suspicious of her motives. But she's unprepared for the secrets she unearths, and their power to change everything she thought she knew about those she loves best...

Download or read book The Very Special Ducklings written by Wava Cirisan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the miracle of science and the grace of egg donation, childless families are having their dreams fulfilled and being blessed with a child. These children will begin a life journey with their parents that will include, someday, the realization of their beginnings. This is the story about a duck without any eggs, and a duck who graciously shared her eggs, and the family that evolved from that gift. This book will begin to plant the seeds of knowledge and understanding about egg donation in a very simple concept for infants and toddlers conceived through egg donation, without using terms typically used in early sex education. My hope is for you to read this book to your child often and that it will help prepare your child as they grow for more advanced stories about egg donation and family infertility issues. For those who are egg donors, this book may also provide a useful reference for validation of your unselfish graceful gift. I personally thank you.

Download or read book Before You Were Born Our Wish for A Baby Egg Donation written by Janice Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to help parents explain to their child the assisted reproductive technique used to conceive them: Egg Donation The story does not use the words sperm or egg. The term donor is used.

Download or read book Motherhood Reimagined written by Sarah Kowalski and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of thirty-nine, Sarah Kowalski heard her biological clock ticking, loudly. A single woman harboring a deep ambivalence about motherhood, Kowalski needed to decide once and for all: Did she want a baby or not? More importantly, with no partner on the horizon, did she want to have a baby alone? Once she revised her idea of motherhood—from an experience she would share with a partner to a journey she would embark upon alone—the answer came up a resounding Yes. After exploring her options, Kowalski chose to conceive using a sperm donor, but her plan stopped short when a doctor declared her infertile. How far would she go to make motherhood a reality? Kowalski catapulted herself into a diligent regimen of herbs, Qigong, meditation, acupuncture, and more, in a quest to improve her chances of conception. Along the way, she delved deep into spiritual healing practices, facing down demons of self-doubt and self-hatred, ultimately discovering an unconventional path to parenthood. In the end, to become a mother, Kowalski did everything she said she would never do. And she wouldn't change a thing. A story of personal triumph and unconditional love, Motherhood Reimagined reveals what happens when we release what's expected and embrace what's possible.

Download or read book Let s Talk About Egg Donation written by Marna Gatlin and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Talk About Egg Donation was written by, for, and about families built through egg and embryo donation. It takes the reader on a journey--from infertility diagnosis, to pregnancy, to how to talk to your child about egg donation. Let's Talk About Egg Donation tells true stories of real families who are parenting via egg and embryo donation. Their stories are woven throughout the book to craft an informative, easy-to-read narrative that focuses on positive language choices. This is the first book written by parents through egg donation that gives you age-appropriate scripts for how to take the scary out of talking to your kids about the special way in which they were conceived.

Download or read book Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation written by Evelina Weidman Sterling and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation is a helpful, authoritative guide to negotiating the complex and emotive issues that arise for those considering whether or not to pursue egg donation. It presents information clearly and with compassion, exploring the practical, financial, logistical, social and ethical questions that commonly arise. This fully updated second edition also includes recent developments in the field, including travelling for egg donation and the emerging field of epigenetics. This book will be valued by all those considering or undergoing donor conception, as well as the range of professionals who support them, including infertility counsellors, psychologists, therapists and social workers.

Download or read book The Pea That Was Me written by Kimberly Kluger-Bell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with how to tell your child about their egg donor?This acclaimed children's picture book (3-5 years old) makes it incredibly easy to start talking with your child about the special way they came into the world. Your child will want to hear about "the very kind egg donor" over and over again!Join parents worldwide who use The Pea That Was Me as a way to begin the on-going conversation about donors--reading and re-reading its extremely positive message about how much they were wanted by their parents and how lucky they were to find such a wonderful "helper."Psychotherapist and reproductive specialist Kim Kluger-Bell uses age appropriate language and clear but simple concepts that refers to the basic fact it takes an egg, a sperm and a "tummy" to make a baby; that Mommy's eggs weren't working quite right, and that's why Mommy and Daddy needed the help of "a very nice Lady who had lots of extra eggs and was happy to help."Why wait any longer? Start reading The Pea That was Me with your child today!

Download or read book The Pea That Was Me written by Kimberly Kluger-Bell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce your child to the wonderful way they came into the world with the latest version of The Pea That Was Me: An Egg and Sperm Donation Story--tailor made for heterosexual couples who used double donation to have their special children. Whimsical and fun, the book emphasizes how much your child was wanted and how grateful you are to the special helper donors who made your dreams come true!

Download or read book The Gift of Sperm Donation written by Irene Celcer and published by Graphite Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and Will fall in love, get married, and try very hard to have a baby before their doctor tells them that they need special baby-making seed from a sperm donor before Hope can become pregnant.

Download or read book His Baby Dream written by Jacqueline Diamond and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a donor egg and a surrogate mum, widowed biology teacher Peter Gladstone is sure to be a proud papa soon, thanks to the fertility specialists at Safe Harbor Medical. Beautiful single mum Harper Anthony seems like the perfect choice for the donor. The problem is, Peter has recently become reacquainted with the young widow and now sees her as more than a friend. But Peter has chosen to keep his identity a secret. If the truth comes out, the consequences may threaten their budding romance. But only the truth can turn them into a family...

Download or read book Three Makes Baby written by Jana M Rupnow Lpc and published by Rupnow & Associates. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Baby Chase written by Leslie Morgan Steiner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a riveting new narrative about surrogate pregnancy from both sides of the equation—the parents and the gestational carrier. Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy is now sweeping headlines, transforming the lives of celebrity mothers and fathers like Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Elton John, and changing the face of motherhood and the American family. But how much do we really know about it? And is it really as easy and accessible – emotionally, financially, legally and physically – as magazines make it out to be? We often hear about successful outcomes, but little about the journey – about the precious hope that starts it all, the ups and downs of finding a surrogate, the heartache and obstacles, the risks and expenses at every step, or the unbelievable joy when years of determination pay off. In The Baby Chase, acclaimed writer Leslie Morgan Steiner weaves three stories together — of a nurse, a firefighter, and the Indian gestational carriers and doctors who helped them — to provide one intensely personal look at what makes surrogacy so controversial, fascinating, and in some cases, the only ray of hope for today's infertile parents-to-be. Rhonda Wile and her husband Gerry struggled for years with infertility. With perseverance that shocked everyone around them, they tried every procedure and option available – unsuccessfully – until they finally decided to hire a surrogate. While surrogacy was being touted as a miracle for hopeful parents, for Rhonda and Gerry, it seemed an impossible and unaffordable dream. Until they came across the beaming smile of a beautiful Indian woman on the internet... and, within a few short months, embarked on a journey that would take them deep into the emerging world of Indian carriers, international medical tourism, and the global surrogacy community. Moving, page-turning, and meticulously researched, this complex human story is paired with an examination of the issues—religious, legal, medical and emotional—that shapes surrogacy as a solution both imperfect and life-changing.

Download or read book Surrogacy Was the Way written by Zara Griswold and published by Nightengale Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogacy Was the Way: Twenty Intended Mothers Tell Their Stories documents the true stories of twenty women who had children via surrogacy. Surrogacy is a complete possibility in today's day and age, but anyone considering this route to parenthood should know the pros and cons. The women featured go to surrogacy for a variety of reasons, ranging from Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) to cancer to unexplained infertility and everything in between. Some of the journeys go rather smoothly-while others are filled with one obstacle after another. Some of the women have children already and want to add to their family, while most are attempting to become moms for the first time. What they all have in common, however, is that every woman whose story is told knows what it's like to be an intended mother-the term for the "mother to be" if and when a baby is born. And all of the women ultimately end up having a child (or more) through surrogacy. When I first started researching surrogacy, I was fortunate to find several Online support groups. As I gave and received support to so many other women I became fascinated with the extent to which people would go to simply have a baby. I realized that their stories-our stories-needed to be heard; thus, the idea for this book was born. For the millions of women who have been touched by infertility in some way, or know someone who has, Surrogacy Was the Way will open their eyes to amazing possibilities. It will show them that they do have options, and with persistence and faith, they can achieve their dreams of motherhood after all.