Uber organized Jessica, a Choice Mom in every way, will deliver her first child in a few months. While she was in the Thinking process — preceding a long Trying phase — she developed a worksheet that calculated how much she would need to spend trying to conceive, for prenatal care, for newborn items, and for post-delivery childcare expenses for a year. Here are the numbers she came up with.
Resources
Resources
Finding European fertility clinics
A woman who currently lives in a European country that doesn’t allow people to use donated egg or sperm asked the Choice Mom board for suggestions about where she might go for treatment options.
Donor Sperm, Podcast, Preparing for delivery
PODCAST: Why you should report a donor birth
A majority of families using donor conception do not report births after the fact. This has a tremendous impact on the industry. The numbers of offspring born to a sperm donor, and even to egg donors, are generally vastly under-reported. If there is a genetic abnormality that surfaces in later years, families cannot be notified.
Home Insemination, Podcast
PODCAST: Home Insemination
Listen to this growing library of clips and podcast excerpts about home insemination.
Podcast, Who Are Choice Moms?
PODCAST: Who are Choice Moms?
Choice Moms was a "word of the year" contender in 2009 by New Oxford’s New American dictionary. I created the term only five years ago in my "Choosing Single Motherhood" book to put the emphasis on Choice, not Single, in our motherhood journey.
