Fertility Dolls
March 31st, 2026 | by Michelle Valenti
I dreamt of telling my own kids about the powerful legend that we are all part of, and the role it played in how they came to be.
Browsing the "Baby Dreaming" Category
When Your Body is a Pharmacy
February 18th, 2025 | by Sarah Waisvisz
Why am I agreeing to do all this?When and why did I decide not to accept myself as a woman who simply would never get pregnant
Eulogy for a Life That Wasn’t
November 11th, 2024 | by Johanna Stephenson
I had fallen unexpectedly and overwhelmingly in love with someone who was ten years into a committed partnership that included iron-clad baby-making plans
Please Rate Your Expectations of Motherhood (excerpts from a pregnancy diary)
November 7th, 2024 | by Brittani Sonnenberg
snippets of a pregnancy diary, illustrated
The Unbearable Ambivalence About Children
July 24th, 2024 | by Susannah Dainow
Summer is tough because everyone is pregnant. After Victoria Day Weekend, the official start to Toronto summer, when the sun
Facebook Asks “What’s on Your Mind?”: Selected Posts
June 3rd, 2024 | by Megan Hanlon
The little ad to the right says “Are you a mom?” No. And thanks for rubbing it in
Claiming and Curating Infertility: The Editors of a New Anthology Talk Trauma, Healing, and Creating
October 3rd, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
There are so many privileges here. To be able to conceive in the comfort of one’s own home. To be able to conceive without a third party or a medical provider involved. To be able to conceive for free
Does personal always have to mean private? On the language we lack around infertility
July 25th, 2023 | by Sammi LaBue Hatch
My first weekend out after the reign of the Delta variant, a rainy March night in 2021, I stood at