Choice Moms: Building Strong Families Together
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Not only are single women who proactively choose motherhood growing in number, but we're turning to each other for support, advice and resources in innovative and empowering ways. This new website brings together some of the amazing information and communication tools available to the worldwide Choice Mom community.
1. Workshops: to vote on where we should gather in 2009, take this quick survey.
2. Find new products specific to Choice Moms: Answering the Daddy Question, featuring four experts and six Choice Moms, in a 50-minute CD. Also: Choice Mom Guide to Fertility and the Choice Mom Guide to Adoption.
3. Listen to the popular Choice Chat podcast
- NEW Episode 16: Talking out loud about grief, about the importance of Choice Moms discussing what makes them angry and sad about this journey, with New York City therapist Joann Paley Galst.
- Episode 15: Raising a child in a single-parent home, with Harvard author and expert Rick Weissbourd.
- Episode 14: At-home insemination: everything you want to know but might be afraid to ask -- NOTE: this a a great podcast for anyone who wants to learn more about how conception works, whether using known donor or frozen sperm
- Episode 12: Negotiating with a known donor.
- Episode 10: What donor-conceived offspring tend to want to know.
- ChoiceMom: are we single by choice or chance?
- Being: on reliability, support and independence.
- Becoming: feeling alone, and tired, as a new single mom.
- Waiting: worrying about miscarriage.
- Trying: dating and trying to conceive.
- Thinking: coming to terms with grief.
5. Explore website content, such as
- What to do when you're waiting to try, waiting to deliver, waiting to adopt.
- Recommended reading with our kids
- What do I need to know about using a known donor?
- Safe at-home insemination procedures with fresh or frozen sperm
6. Hear voices from the community. Check out the interview about Choice Motherhood on Lifetime's "The Balancing Act" (4 minutes). And the one-hour interview with Choice Moms founder Mikki Morrissette and Single Mothers by Choice founder Jane Mattes on the CreatingAFamily.com online radio show.
7. Stay up-to-date. Our simple RSS feeds enable you to sign up for automatic notification of the newest blog entries, podcasts and topics that interest you, whether you are in the Thinking, Trying, Waiting, Becoming or Being stages of Choice Motherhood. If you need help with this, or downloading the podcast, contact our website developer.
As always, welcome to the discussion and the journey.
