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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her triplets, who have no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, leave for college, Johanna, faced with being alone for the first time, decides to have a fourth child and wonders what role the "latecomer" will play in her already fractured family.
3) Magpie
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Marisa and Jake are a perfect couple. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommate--and not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams. Except--no one is truly perfect. Sure, Kate doesn't seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly-familiar with Jake. But Marisa doesn't let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. Now twenty years later, the sisters reluctantly agree to take part in a documentary that will reveal secrets and spur them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last.
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sam Hunter only intended to help his brother fulfill his dream of having children, but now, through an IVF mixup, a complete stranger is pregnant with his child! To make matters worse, she's utterly gorgeous. For warm-hearted widow Emelia Eastwood, this child was meant to be the final legacy of her husband. The hospital's discovery turns her world upside down. Soon Sam and Emelia discover that the twists and turns of fate can lead to a love they never...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Fox Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Whether you are trying to conceive naturally or through IVF, the quality of your eggs will have a powerful impact on how long it takes you to get pregnant and whether you face an increased risk of miscarriage. Poor egg quality is emerging as the single most important cause of age-related infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and failed IVF cycles.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a health scare, Brighton-based Lou is forced to confront the fact that her time to have a baby is running out. She can't imagine a future without children, but her partner doesn't seem to feel the same way, and she's not sure whether she could go it alone. Meanwhile, in Yorkshire, Cath is longing to start a family with her husband, Rich. No one would be happier to have children than Rich, but Cath is infertile. Could these strangers help one...
Author
Publisher
Orion, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Richard and Rosie started trying to conceive after five years of being together but, two and a half years and countless prenatal vitamins and ovulation kits later, there hadn't been even a phantom pregnancy. So began their adventure into IVF, via blood tests, sperm tests, injections and probes, becoming involuntary experts on embryology through failure, despair, persistence and success. After 4 years, 3 different clinics, 2 positive pregnancy tests...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Life Long
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Da Capo Press edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The blogger and actress recounts her struggles with infertility and efforts to have a child through in-vitro fertilization, explaining how talking about her challenges have enabled her to learn about herself and become the woman she was meant to be.
13) Baby B
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 485 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey. Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage of the process-from knowing when to seek medical advice to parenting after infertility, and everything in between"--
17) Tangled web
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
133 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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.
At the age of 38, acclaimed novelist Julia Leigh made her first visit to the in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic, full of hope. So started a long and costly journey...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An explosive, hilarious memoir about the life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist and memoirist 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...
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