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
Browsing the "Baby Dreaming" Category
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
Variations of a Flush
July 13th, 2023 | by Jessica Harvey
If I were just three years earlier on this game, I might have produced fifteen follicles, and if I had had my shit together ten years earlier, I may have made a wild thirty.
Count to Ten and Stop Counting
December 6th, 2022 | by Karen Kovach
These nightmares—these realities—somehow only increased my own desire to conceive
I’m Not Going to Pop: In Search of Better Pregnancy Metaphors
November 17th, 2022 | by Finn Schubert
What other shapes can we give a pregnancy narrative
Book Excerpt: Crybaby
October 20th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
This would become a mantra: If it gets us a baby, it’s worth it, as the universe upped the ante on what “it” was
Adoption is Not for the Faint of Heart, or: How I Got Banned from the Comfort Inn
July 8th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
If there were a dozen red flags waving brazenly—her urgent need for money, lack of interest in who we were, trouble with the law—that was kind of the point. That was why Courtney was making an adoption plan
This is What I Want You to Know
July 2nd, 2021 | by Carla Rachel Sameth
You will be asked again, “Are you sure you want to do this?” by the nurse or doctor.