So much amazing writing has come out of the personal essay workshops at San Francisco’s Writing Pad. Here are a few links to recent student work that has been published. It’s exciting to witness people taking their stories from idea to print. Congrats to these writers!
Read more »I’m super excited to share that I will be reading from The Doctor and the Stork: A Memoir of Modern Medical Babymaking, at Book Passage in Corte Madera on 1/16/16. This is one of my favorite book destinations of all time. I would love to see you there!
Read more »“I love the way she describes the IVF process and think it could be a real help to patients as they navigate the choices. Reading the story serves to make me a better doctor by understanding how what I say is perceived.”
—Dr. Mary Ramie Hinckley, of Reproductive Science Center
By K.K. Goldberg Now that my twin boys are nearly 4 years old, I look back on the advice, warnings, and forecasts I received from the moment I learned I would be gestating multiples. I’ve thought often about what I wish someone had told me then, as a complement to the fearful facts of medical risks and the chortled predictions of […]
Read more »If you’ve ever flown on an airplane or given birth to multiples, you’ve likely been told: “Place the air mask securely on your own face before assisting your child.” As the mother of toddler twin boys, I think this flight-safety patter sounds like a sensible self-care metaphor for parenting on the ground — except when […]
Read more »Twin pregnancy can be grueling — mine was uncomfortable to the point that the actual birth was the most relaxing part — and I’m talking about a C-section, a surgery for which I was awake and watching. For most of the months leading up to the arrival of my sons, I felt like a bread […]
Read more »“With twins, you’re highly visible–everyone sees your caravan and crew. At the same time, you’re also invisible, as so many people simply don’t get it. I know this is true because I didn’t get it either, until having twins myself.”
This is from my latest piece on Huffpo parents, about the incredible solidarity among moms of multiples…
Read more »Six months after my C-section, my ob-gyn marveled at the tidiness of my surgical scar. “Look at that! Who was your surgeon?” she crowed.
I smiled. I hadn’t peeked at the scar, which barely registered in my consciousness. The first months with infant twins, I cared only about survival and sleep. Besides, the skin above that faint gray C-section line was so incredibly strange, it wouldn’t have mattered if my doctor had installed an actual metal zipper at the point of the incision…
Read more »The four of us were close in college: Tina, Lisa, Jill and me. If we could have looked into a crystal ball, how shocked we would have been to see ourselves at 40: three of us with twins, and one of us diagnosed with a rare uterine cancer. Tina and Lisa had twins in their […]
Read more »I have a new story on The Huffington Post, just up today. Though people say technologies like online dating or IVF or C-sections unnaturally control things, the opposite is true. They open you to whole new levels of randomness, hazard, surprise and wonder. With IVF especially it felt like I spent a year at Reproductive Burning Man: with masses of people, piles of drugs, and anticipation of a final, cathartic event.
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