AnotherChild.com
Jun 9, 2006 Book work, Infertility
So what’s the point of AnotherChild.com beyond the interesting aspect of a group blog about a specific subject? And how does it relate to my book project? Two-fold: Read the rest of this entry »
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This is what I’ve been working on
Jun 8, 2006 Infertility
AnotherChild.com. It’s in beta form. If you have ever been challenged in adding another child to your family, please think about blogging with us. I’ve already (hopefully) sucked DD in, hopefully more of you will be succumb to our peer pressure and come along! I am seriously out of the active infertility loops (and am well on my way of being out of the active adoption loops) so if you could pass this on to anyone who might be interested, that’d be great. It’s still a beta site so I’m not chasing traffic yet but I hope to have things truly up and running (and other blog authors in place) and then I’ll start gearing up for serious marketing.
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Giving up (some of) the goods
May 30, 2006 Book work, Infertility
First some parental discussion and then some thoughts about where I am with my book.
We switched doctors (to one we used to see when Noah was a pup) for a couple of reasons but the most relevent one for this blog entry is that it’s close enough to walk there. Walking five blocks for a check-up is much nicer than driving cross-town. We’re making a concentrated effort to drive a lot less this summer. This is also one reason that Noah doesn’t have a lot going on activity-wise. (The other reason is that we all deserve a break. Remember when summers were meant for relaxing?)
So Madison had her 2-year old check-up today and she is 34.5 pounds, 36.5 inches. She’s a big, tall, healthy girl. She was charming the other patients in the waiting room by chatting about the magazine she was reading. “Dat guy is sunny [funny]! See him?” Then she segues to the next most important thing on her mind. (Remember that in Madison language the f’s sound like s and the l’s sound like y.) “I go in the jogging stroller with Daddy and he goes SAST! And the race car comes [there's a guy in our neighborhood who does drag racing] and it is YOUD and I cry. I don’t YIKE the race car. [pause] Yes I do!” Chitter-chatter away. Between her height and her talking, she’s usually mistaken for three.
Right now the kids are playing in the wading pools. Noah has created a water park — 2 wading pools (one with a slide), her water table and her rocking boat. They are screeching and splashing and generally having an awfully good time.
Work-wise I need to get back on the query train. Book-wise, I found a history expert whose interests/research includes fertility issues who said she’d be happy to talk to me about secondary infertility. I can’t find much about it.
I figured out the paradigm that would underlie my book but I can’t find any specific research to support it. So what I’m going to do is go across disciplines and try to build a case. And as I work on my survey questions, I’m going to try to come up with more effective ones to address this theory. I have some anecdotal stories but they’re not really strong because I didn’t know what I was looking for.
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Tags: Infertility, Madison, Noah, secondary infertility
Request from a reader
Feb 12, 2006 Infertility
Anyone know of an infertility support forum that welcomes secondary infertiles and isn’t all baby dust and angel babies? I don’t but we’re hoping maybe some out there does?
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By the way
Feb 6, 2006 Infertility
An email I just got reminded me.
If it took longer than a year to conceive your second (or third or fourth etc.) child or you have been unable to conceive a second (or third or fourth etc.) child AND you would be willing to talk to me, will you let me know? Whether or not you ever considered yourself infertile, I am looking to interview women who have this experience for another project I’m about to start working on.