I Dreamed of You
I Dreamed of You

Author: Lori Metz

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781977230263

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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

Let’s Talk About Egg Donation
Let’s Talk About Egg Donation

Author: Marna Gatlin

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1480877581

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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.

I Dreamed of You: the Story of an Egg Donor Baby
I Dreamed of You: the Story of an Egg Donor Baby

Author: Lori Metz

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781977230829

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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

Happy Together
Happy Together

Author: Julie Marie

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781985661851

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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!

Her Daughter's Mother
Her Daughter's Mother

Author: Daniela Petrova

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0525539999

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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...

Motherhood Reimagined
Motherhood Reimagined

Author: Sarah Kowalski

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1631522736

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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.

The Gift of Sperm Donation
The Gift of Sperm Donation

Author: Irene Celcer

Publisher: Graphite Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780975581032

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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.

The Pea That Was Me
The Pea That Was Me

Author: Kimberly Kluger-Bell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-10-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478149415

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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!

The Gift of Embryo Donation
The Gift of Embryo Donation

Author: Irene Celcer

Publisher: Graphite Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780975581025

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)