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Day 64 #AfterMaria - Still waiting for power to return. Still waiting for a return to normal. Yes, a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks helps. 🧙🏻‍♀️

I forgot to take a picture of this book before I returned it to the library today. I finished it late last night and had been wanting to read more and more every time it was in my hands. Such a great and well researched book on infertility, adoption, IUI & IVF, surrogacy, forced sterilization, gay rights, child-free, racism & classism and probably a couple of other things I'm forgetting. And all written in a very readable way.

time for bed #24in48

Boggs intertwined the story of her own struggle with infertility with a look at the ethics of and barriers to ART and cultural pressure to have children. The result is a thoughtful examination of child-bearing in the 21st century. Boggs also tried to expand beyond her own situation and describe barriers facing same-sex couples, single parents, and people of color - ART is largely the privilege of white, well-off heteronormative married couples.

I preordered this book months ago, and it came in the mail today. So, of course I had to start reading it.

Here's my favorite quote yet. "It was the reverse of the ill-considered folk wisdom most of us had heard from family or friends: As soon as you stop trying, you'll get pregnant. Our truth was more like this: Keep trying...and you'll eventually have success."

Hadn't thought of infertility that way

I can't go a page of this book without wanting to highlight a quote. @Graywolfpress

A very good meditation on infertility. Beautifully written and thoughtful.

I think this is true.

Up next. Can't WAIT for this one (and look for a review from me in a few months).

Awesome book mail.

A little @Graywolfpress reading for the train today: THE ART OF WAITING: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs (9/6/16)