Count to Ten and Stop Counting
December 6th, 2022 | by Karen Kovach
These nightmares—these realities—somehow only increased my own desire to conceive
Browsing the "baby dreaming" Tag
Body Lore: An Excerpt from THE OTHER MOTHERS
February 26th, 2021 | by Jennifer Berney
Culturally, we tend to conflate three disparate things: sexual desire, the impulse to nurture, the ability to conceive and bear a child. We act as if a woman’s longing is proportionate to her fertility. I longed deeply, and therefore I was fertile—or so my logic went
On Not Getting Pregnant During a Pandemic
August 11th, 2020 | by Ellie Lobovits
My buzzer rings, the first in a quick domino of buzzers. Mine—the loudest—then next door, then upstairs, and so on,
The Making of a Grownup: Part II
April 10th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I knew we would be sending Wolf into love, but I wanted to send him into peace, too. Or, I wanted him to stay with us
Beyond the Turkey Baster: A Queer Mom Dishes on Donor Sperm
September 3rd, 2019 | by Cara Gormally
There are so many ways to have children. There's no right way. And there's no one easy way.
HOW TO MAKE A FAMILY
October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer
You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You
Taking Apart the Blue Crib: Infertility After Birth
March 15th, 2018 | by Robin Silbergleid
There is a dismantled blue crib in my dining room, its four sides and bottom leaning against the book case,
Turkey Basters (and Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right) as Lesbian Fertility Folklore
October 11th, 2017 | by Joanna Stein
On YouTube there are hundreds of videos explaining how same-sex couples could become pregnant on their own. Some of these
FLAMES: Comics on Baby Dreaming
April 7th, 2017 | by Robyn Jordan
The older I get, the more I see themes and threads repeat and return that I might have thought were
Becki Melchione on DESPERATE MEASURES and Savior Fantasies
December 20th, 2016 | by Becki Melchione
I knew that I was desperate when I began to contemplate kidnapping a baby. I’d notice a child and immediately,
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