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Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Dashiell And I Are Embryo Nerds!

Michelle Tea — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:30:00 -0500

I’m having one of those happy, delusional moments where I love science so much I wonder if I should finally go to college and study to be a neurophysicist.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: It's Time For Our IVF Orientation

Michelle Tea — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:30:00 -0500

This crowd is a bunch of middle-aged heterosexuals tired from their 8 hours at the J.O.B., a little exhausted by their pregnancy fails, a little scared and nervous and hopeful and overwhelmed by what they are about to step into.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: I Can't Have Sex For A Month!

Michelle Tea — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:30:00 -0500

It’s frustrating when something is just a fact and you can’t call it out as anti-feminist propaganda.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Scrolling Through Sperm Donors

Michelle Tea — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:00:00 -0500

Dashiell mostly wants the baby to look like a mini-us, which I understand but I know that my own beauty can be improved upon, and as a mother I just want what’s best for our baby!

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Onward to Babymakingville!

Michelle Tea — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:00:00 -0500

At 41, I am in a stable relationship. I’m financially stable. Thanks to my meds, I’m emotionally stable. It’s crazy that now, when I am most suited to have kids, my body is over it.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Dashiell's Ovaries RULE!

Michelle Tea — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:00:00 -0500

The thing is, the fertility racket is (confoundlingly) heterosexual.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: How Babies Are Made When They're Made in Clinics

Michelle Tea — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:00:00 -0400

In Dr. Waller’s office, we learn how IVF works.

I'm Doing IVF and It Landed Me In the Hospital

B.B. White — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:30:00 -0400

Within two weeks, my bloated lower abdomen could easily be mistaken for a real second trimester pregnancy and I felt as though my ovaries were suspended like a puppet by a thin string, bobbing up and down painfully when I sat or stood too quickly.