The Long-Awaited Stork: A Guide to Parenting After Infertility / Edition 2

by Ellen Sarasohn Glazer, X, Alan Rinzler

Overview

"Parents who have wondered about the long term impact of infertility on their self image will find the answers in this insightful book. In her sensitive way, Ellen Glazer makes it clear that having or adopting children does not And the emotional impact of infertility."—Lois Melina, author of Raising Adopted Children and Making Sense of Adoption

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787940539
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/11/2002
Edition description:	Rev
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

ELLEN SARASOHN GLAZER is a program counselor at the Boston Regional Center for Reproductive Medicine.

Table of Contents

Preparation for Parenthood.

Pregnancy After Infertility.

The Arrival.

Settling into Parenthood.

The Preschool Years.

Kindergarten and Beyond.

Latency Age.

Adolescence.

The Legacy of Infertility: One Family's Story.

Domestic Adoption.

International Adoption.

Raising Biological and Adopted Children.

Donor Insemination.

Surrogacy and Gestational Care.

Ovum Donation.

The Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

Multiple Births.

Only Children After Infertility.

Special-Needs Children.

Some Closing Thoughts.