“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
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 »“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 »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.
Read more »“An April 16 Time magazine article, “The Problem With America’s Twin Epidemic,” by Sarah Elizabeth Richards, had me nervously looking left and right for a raging epidemic of twins spawned by in vitro fertilization (IVF). Like a paired zombie horde, they would shamble across the nation, incurring unnecessary medical costs and slowly taking over…”
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This is a letter to Jill Birnbaum, loved and missed by so many of us. Jill, I really still can’t believe you are gone. I think of you every day.
Read more »Here’s an ode to Pamela Druckerman and her wonderful book Bringing Up Bebe. Her stories inspired my French-parenting fantasy, unfolding here in Berkeley with my two-year-old twins. This was on Huffpo Parents yesterday.
Read more »C-sections are often hailed as unnecessary, agonizing and overused. On this topic, I can speak only for myself. That said, strange as it sounds, there were things I actually loved about my surgical birth. On The Huffington Post today.
Read more »Featured on The Huffington Post Parents, this was another shout out to lingering angst as a post-IVF parent and an adult child of divorce. Thanks, Mom, for taking this one in stride.
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