Love Song for Baby X is the moving and humorous story of a lesbian couple’s struggles with infertility as they attempt to become parents, set against the backdrop of the marriage equality movement.
While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she’ll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually encounters, including navigating the maze of the high-tech fertility business, the emotional conundrum of pregnancy loss,...
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: Prelude
Chapter 2: First Comes Love
Chapter 3: On Genetic Selection, Nitrogen Tanks, and Defrosting Sperm 20
Chapter 4: The Waiting Game 29
...Om författaren
Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of In Praise of Falling, editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco ...