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Title: The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth
by Kim Toevs, Stephanie A. Brill, Stephanie Brill
ISBN: 1-55583-626-7
Publisher: Alyson Pubns
Pub. Date: February, 2002
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $19.95
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Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive and Holistic
Comment: This is by far the most comprehensive book I've found on lesbian conception and pre-parenting issues. It goes far beyond the medical and physical issues to cover communication between possible donors and coparents, tools to facilitate conversations between partners, and lots of passages that incite that, "wow I have never thought about that" feeling. As a labor and delivery nurse myself, I find the advice of these well-educated midwives to be right on. The information and advice in this resource is invaluable! I highly recommend this book to any lesbian or bisexual woman thinking seriously about starting a family.

Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended!
Comment: This was the best resource out there for me and my partner. It was an excellent reference book, with the most useful information being about the process of conceiving, tracking your cycles, and issues like how to time insemination if you're using frozen sperm vs. fresh sperm, etc.

Although there's info out there on artificial insemination, pregancy using sperm from a male partner, etc. this book puts all the information female couples need into one resource. Other books on these topics are for heterosexual couples and either don't address the decisions or don't address the various medical implications of those decisions for lesbian couples.

And, overall, it was just nice to have a book that was written for me and my honey. There was a place for her and a place for us written into those pages that meant we didn't have to translate all of the time into our own needs and experience.

(BTW- I didn't read anything that seemed negative in the book, so I was surprised to see that in other reviews. It's more that the authors take the approach of describing how to be healthily involved in getting the info you need to give birth to a healthy little one.)

Hope this is helpful. Good luck to you!

Rating: 1
Summary: Some helpful pregnancy advice but too alternative
Comment: Unfortunately the politics of this book are a turn off, the author has little regard for the conventional family model of two biological parents being bonded to child

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