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The dads know that only time will tell how important genetic ties will be to their children. They also know that their children’s feelings
about it will likely change over time.
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― Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
― Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
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It is undignified to inject yourself with hormones designed to slow or enhance ovarian production. It is undignified to have your ovaries monitored by transvaginal ultrasound; to be sedated so that your eggs can be aspirated into a needle; to have your husband emerge sheepishly from a locked room with the “sample” that will be combined with your eggs under supervision of an embryologist. The grainy photo they hand you on transfer day, of your eight-celled embryo (which does not look remotely lik
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― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
