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Posted April 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM

Top 5 steps for your estate plan

filed under: Philadelphia, event insights, legal, money matters, tips, checklist

At the Philadelphia Choice Mom networking event, estate planner Laura Stegossi offered these 5 steps to a healthy estate plan.

Posted April 7, 2011 at 6:45 AM

Checklist for Single Parent Adoption

filed under: adoption, checklist, resources, international adoption, foster care, policy

Choice Mom Valerie offered up these questions to ask any prospective adoption agency before considering them for your single-parent adoption...

Posted April 5, 2011 at 6:35 PM

Special Choice Mom resource compilation

filed under: resources, fertility, adoption, donor conception, donor offspring, tips, expert insight, sperm bank, thinking, trying, waiting, being, checklist, feature, daddy question, growing up without a father

As we develop more (largely FREE!) e-books and other special guides for the Choice Mom community, I thought this would be a good place to list everything so far available. This list will grow, so keep checking back.

Posted March 22, 2011 at 11:25 AM

Guide to Sperm Banks and Donor Conception

filed under: sperm bank, trying, checklist, donor conception, donor offspring, feature, open-identity donor, thinking, being, policy, QandA, resources, sperm, sperm donor, tips

It's finally here! The Choice Mom Guide to Donor Sperm. Click here for the e-book, available as a complimentary guidebook for anyone who is choosing or has chosen sperm donation to build their family.

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Posted March 11, 2011 at 6:10 PM

Leaky faucet?

filed under: healthy living, house, being, simplify, checklist, tips

We've got a new partnership with Studio One Networks, which is offering content on two topics that Choice Moms tend to care about: offering our families greener lifestyles, and maintaining our homes. Here's the first in a series.

Posted September 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM

Choice Mom Guide to Fertility

filed under: fertility, book, insemination, trying, thinking, checklist, 2ww, doctor, terms, expert insight, home insemination, IVF, ovulation, sperm, stress, profile, resources

There is nothing that prompts more questions on Choice Mom discussion boards than when a single woman is purposely trying to conceive. We quickly learn how little we know about something we've been taught can be so easy. The Choice Mom Guide to Fertility gathers the most common questions and answers them, with the help of 15 fertility specialists we interviewed specifically for this book.

Posted September 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM

Making Room for Baby: decluttering tips

filed under: NYC, waiting, becoming, newborn, checklist, organization

When I lived in my one bedroom floor-through apartment in New York City with my young daughter, I did start to feel overrun in that first year by the THINGS she needed. I was frugal, but still had the diaper pail, stroller, Baby Bjorn, exersaucer, 3-in-1 travel crib (used everyday), and a growing collection of plastic chewy items. So it was no surprise when the organizing experts at the New York City Choice Mom event drew a crowd.

Posted August 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM

The Thinking Guide

filed under: thinking, checklist, commentary, emotions, support network, telling and talking, resources

There is no 1-2-3 formula to deciding whether the Choice Motherhood lifestyle is right for you. But there are a lot of ways to try to figure it out. This is a good place to start.

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Posted June 28, 2010 at 2:25 PM

Asking the Right Questions: Sperm banks

filed under: thinking, trying, donor offspring, ChoiceKids, feature, anonymous donor, insemination, open-identity donor, expert insight, tips, checklist

It is more important to start your donor search with selection of the right sperm bank, before identifying donor characteristics. Arm yourself with this checklist of questions to begin the process.