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If it's Wednesday, I must be finally getting around to Sunday's paper

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This morning Paul and I were messaging about Peggy Orenstein’s outstanding article on donor eggs in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Paul, quoting the article: One newly pregnant woman told me she picked her donor…

a little pregnant: Summer squash

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This weekend I had a mammogram as part of my routine pre-cycle testing. (I called on Friday to schedule it. I was told, You can either come in October, or come tomorrow. And although there was hardly time to shave…

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a little pregnant: Jenny from the bleccch

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Dear Ms. Lopez: Oh, you know what? That sounds so phony. I mean, it’s just us, right? Jen and Julie? J. and J., Lo and ho’, shooting the breeze, chewing the fat, anxiously asking each other if our emaciated husbands…

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Let's talk about sex. No, not that kind.

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Here is a superficial example of how infertility has changed me. Before infertility, before I learned what a gift any baby is, before I began to perceive how loaded the question is, I’m pretty sure I asked more than…

Let's not and say we did

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I don’t really want to write about the six-hour layover in the Atlanta airport, when Charlie crumpled like a wet Kleenex, burning with fever, dead weight in my arms as I hustled both of us from concourse to miles-long…