Did you know that the baby you gave to my family would be born into the greatest love? For a long time, I believed this wasn’t my story. I started this letter to you a year ago, quietly and in my private journal. After all, I have two healthy sons with my husband through traditional […]
The journey to parenthood doesn’t always follow the path you thought it would. I write narratives in my head a lot about myself. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I live by these narratives, following the paths I’ve laid out in them. I like them to be set. I think […]
Queer parents and anyone who uses non-traditional methods to build families, whether that means sperm or egg donation, IVF, surrogacy, or adoption, complicate the question of what it means to be a parent, what it means to be a family, what it means to be a mother. I have never wanted to give birth. I […]
Anything that offers women more choices about their reproductive health is a good thing. I get it. I understand why some people are having a negative reaction to an announcement made by Apple and Facebook that the companies will begin paying for egg retrieval and storage for female employees. The way that it is being reported […]
