Happy Single DIY Moms, Well-Adjusted Kids
Modern Families:Parents and Children in New Family Forms (Susan Golombok, Cambridge University Press, 2015) Dispels the Myths about Modern Families “Asa. Asa.” That’s what my son first began to call...
View ArticleDear Teacher and Preschool Community: How I Came Out as a DIY Mom
Dear Teacher, As we discussed on the phone, my child was conceived via donor insemination. I made the decision to have a child as a single mother by choice when I was 40. I figured I had the rest of my...
View ArticleUsing Donor Eggs? Your Body Is Still Influencing Your Baby’s Genes
Over the years Dr. Carlos Simon’s fertility patients, the hundreds of women who conceived using donors eggs, have told him over and over how much their babies looked like them or someone in their...
View ArticleMinimally Viable Dad
The rights of sperm donors—who deserves to be called “daddy”? I began thinking about having a child on my own after a very serious relationship broke up when I was 37, a critical time for my fertility....
View ArticleDIY Motherhood: For Some Millennials, It’s No Longer Plan B
The Millennial Generation no longer views single mothers as desperate and desolate women, financially and socially marginalized, according to Lake Research. Today, 41% of the nations mothers are single...
View ArticleAre Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?
DNA Testing Makes them Easier to Trace When Donor 3066 signed up with the California Cryobank, he offered some basic information about himself on a piece of paper: he had a BA in theater; his mother...
View ArticleTrying to Get Pregnant? Natural Fertility Enhancing Options
When I was trying to get pregnant with my son at age 40, I knew I was facing a challenge. So I decided to get my body in the best shape I could through some natural fertility enhancing choices. I...
View ArticleThe Scoop on Fertility Tests
An increasing number of women want to test their fertility, and it’s definitely a smart choice to make, even in your 20s. The market has responded by offering home fertility tests that make it much...
View ArticleTurn Panic into Peace: A New Edition of In Her Own Sweet Time: Egg Freezing...
Turn Panic into Peace: A new edition with updated medical, technological, and social science research In the six years that have passed since I published the first edition of my memoir about the new...
View ArticleThe Age of the Open Source Family
When I was researching In Her Own Sweet Time: Egg Freezing and the New Frontiers of Family, which is about the rising age of motherhood and all the new choices women and men are making when it comes to...
View ArticleThe Science of Single, Same Sex, and “Multiplex” Parenting: Could this Be Our...
A new Advanced Reproductive Technology called In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) is giving the phrase “it takes a village” new meaning. It was developed out of the discovery that scientists can now use stems...
View ArticleThe “Angelina Jolie” BRCA Gene and Your Fertility
Women who carry the gene that increases their risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer may also have a higher risk for infertility. “Women in their mid-30s who carry the BRCA1 mutation have, on...
View ArticleSlate: Single-Mother Families Aren’t the “Other”
They’re increasingly the norm. And it’s time to end the shaming and stigmatizing of solo moms. Read full story here. The post Slate: Single-Mother Families Aren’t the “Other” appeared first on Rachel...
View ArticleCalculate Your Frozen Egg Success
It’s not a bad idea to think about the point you’ll use your frozen eggs. You could be waiting for Mr. (or Ms.) Right, or for Mr. (or Ms.) Right to be ready to have kids. Maybe you’re just too darn...
View ArticleSomewhere Down the Line: A Breast Cancer Survivor Muses on Her “Totsicles”...
By Meaghan Calcari Campbell I never grew up dreaming about becoming a mother. You know that image of a little girl, swinging around a baby doll, cooing in a sing-song voice, practicing for when she...
View ArticleYour Fertility Crystal Ball: How Would Your Life Change with a Genetic Test...
When I was in my mid 30s, I really wanted to have a baby, but I wasn’t quite ready. I talked to my OBGYN about freezing my eggs. It was 2009 and the procedure was still labeled “experimental” by the...
View ArticleWhy Egg Freezing Makes Dating Better
By Valerie Landis Dating is tough. Period. With the thousands of online dating sites and apps, it feels like finding a match is more difficult than ever. Strange how more options actually gives us less...
View ArticleNext Wave Fertility: Why We Need A Think Lab Dedicated to the Future of Family
Around the turn of the 21st century, I started noticing a trend among my friends. We we’re staying single longer and many of us we’re starting to feel anxious about our biological clocks. We questioned...
View ArticleLet’s Raise the Volume on the Next Wave for Women, Families and Advanced...
“We still have a long way to go. Our policies just haven’t kept up with the challenges women and families face today.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, Fortune Magazine, September 29th, 2016 In the past few...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Losing IVF: Why “Personhood” Legislation Could Be as...
In the late afternoon on January 21st, I took my four-and–half- year-old son to downtown San Francisco to march with women and men. We carried two signs. One that called out “Family Inclusion:...
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