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The Mother Project
About this book
Brave, funny and honest, columnist Sophie Beresiner takes us on her complex journey to parenthood and shows us that there’s more than one way to become a mother.
Sophie’s journey to motherhood began aged 30 with a cancer diagnosis that stole her fertility. Today, Sophie is older (40), wiser (and agonisingly excellent at hindsight), and somewhat battered. Through interminable cycles of hope and failure, her infertility story spanned three countries, five surrogates and two re-mortgages.
Part memoir, part manifesto, The Mother Project is the epic story of Sophie’s quest for happiness. Exploring the complexities, expectations and injustices faced by millions of women across the world, it is a book for anyone facing a mother project of their own.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Note to Readers
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. How do you know you’re infertile?
- 2. How does egg donation work?
- 3. What is IVF abroad really like?
- 4. How do you deal with a negative pregnancy result?
- 5. How does surrogacy work, exactly?
- 6. How does surrogacy work in America, exactly?
- 7. Why don’t you just adopt?
- 8. How do you even find a surrogate?
- 9. What is it like to meet your surrogate?
- 10. What is it like to lose your surrogate?
- 11. What if surrogacy doesn’t work?
- 12. How do you keep going?
- 13. What kind of person would offer to be an altruistic surrogate?
- 14. How do you deal with the international divide?
- 15. How many people does it take to make a surrogate baby?
- 16. How do you stay positive?
- 17. What is the transfer like?
- 18. How do you know when to stop?
- 19. The end?
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- About the Publisher