Book List
General
- The Mind-Body Fertility Connection: The true Pathway to Conception
By James Schwartz, 2008 - The New Speaking of Sex: What your Children Need to Know and When they Need to know it
By Meg Hickling, 2005 - The Way of the Fertile Soul
By Randine Lewis, 2007 - The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, an All other Labour Companies
By Penny Simkin, 2008 - The Complete Guide to Female Fertility
By Kate Brian, 2007 - The Empty Picture frame: An Inconceivable Journey through Infertility
By Jenna Currier Nadeau and Mike Nadeau, 2007 - The Infertility Survival Guide
By Judith Daniluk, 2001 - The Infertility Cure
By Randine Lewis, 2005 - IVF & Ever After: Personal IVF Stories
By Theresa Miller - Pathways to Pregnancy: Personal Stories and Practical Advice for your Fertility Journey
By Mary Wong
Sperm & Egg Donation and Single Motherhood
- Building a Family with The Assistance of Donor Insemination
By Kenneth Raymond Daniels, 2004 - Choosing to be Open about Donor Conception: The Experiences of Parents
By Sharon Penttle and Jan Burns, 2002 - Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman’s Guide
By Mikki Morrissette, 2008 - Dream Come True: The Story of a Single Woman Conceiving via Donor Insemination
By Elaina Leigh - Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own
By Alexandra Soireth - The Complete Single Mother: Reassuring Answers to Your Most Challenging Concerns
By Andrea Engber - Finding Our Families: A First-of-it’s-kind Book fo Donor Conceived People and their Families
By Wendy Kramer - Knock Yourself Up: No Man? No Problem: A Tell-all Guide to Becoming a single Mom
By Louise Sloan - Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family
By Rosanna Hertz - Experiences of Donor Conception: Parents, offspring and Donors Through the Years
By Caroline Lorbach, 2003 - Having Your Baby through Egg Donation
By Ellen Glazer and Evelina Weidman, 2005 - Helping the Stork: The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination
By Carol Frost Vercollone, 1997 - The Insider’s Guide to Egg donation: A Compassionate and Comprehensive Guide for All Parents-to-be
By Wendie Wilson-Miller and Erika Napoletano, 2012
LGBTQIA+ Families
- And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our unexpected Families Edited
By Susan Goldberg and Chloe Brushwood Rose, 2010 - Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-Biological Lesbian Moms tell All
By Harlan Aizley, 2006 - A Gay Couples Journey through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers
By Michael Menichiello, 2006 - Gay Dads: A Celebration of Fatherhood
By David Strah, 2003 - Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Fertility Life Cycle
By Abbie Goldberg, 2009 - The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy and Birth
By Stephanie Brill and Preston Sacks, 2006 - Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting Edited
By Rachel Epstein, 2009 - The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Preconception through Birth
By Rachel Pepper, 2005 - The Queer Parents Primer: A Lesbian and Gay Families’ Guide to Navigating through a Straight World
By Stephanie Brill, 2005 - Does this Baby Make me Look Straight? Confessions of a Gay dad By Dan Bukatinsky
- The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide
By Arlene Istar Lev - Families like Mine: Children of Gay parents Tell it like it is
By Abigail Garner
Gestational Surrogacy
- Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies
By Heather Jacobson, 2016 - Brining in Finn: An Extraordinary Surrogacy Story
By Sara Connell, 2012 - From Heartache to Healed: Our Journey through Infertility and Surrogacy
By Heather Thompson, 2016 - Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates: Answering Tough Questions and Building Strong Families
By Diane Ehrensaft, 2005 - Successful Surrogacy: An Intended Parents Guide
By Susan MZ Fuller - Surrogacy Was The Way: Twenty Intended Mothers Tell their Stories
By Zara Griswold, 2006 - Everything Conceivable
By Liza Mundy - Pathways to Parenthood: The Ultimate Guide to Surrogacy
By Stacey Ziegler, 2004
Miscarriage and Postpartum Depression/Anxiety
- A Loss Misunderstood
By Jaclyn Pieris, 2016 - A Piece of My Heart: Living through the grief of Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Death
By Molly Fumia, 2000 - Coming to Term: Uncovering the Truth about Miscarriage
By Jon Cohen, 2007 - Remembering Our Angels: Personal Stories of Healing from a Pregnancy Loss
By Hannah Stone, 2007 - The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety workbook
By Pamela Weigartz - Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts
By Karen Kleiman - This Isn’t What I expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression
By Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin - A Deeper Shade of Blue
By Ruta Nonacs - Beyond the Blues
By Pec Indman and Shoshanna Bennet - What am I thinking?: Having a Baby after Postpartum Depression
By Karen Kleiman - Life will Never be the Same: The Real Mom’s Postpartum Survival Guide
By Ann Dunnewold and Diane Sanford - Salt, Water and Honey
By Lowrie Lizzie, 2020 - Unspeakable Losses
By K Kluger-Bell, 2000 - When a Baby Dies: the Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
By Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley, 2001 - The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book
By Sandra Poulin - Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting: Emotions Mental Health and Happiness Before, During and After Pregnancy
By Lucy Puryear
Books for Kids
- My Incredible Creation: An IVF Journey
By Julian Duband - Nan’s Donut Dilemma
By Mary E.Ryan (Single Mother By choice) - The Pea That was Me : A Single mom’s Sperm Donation Children’s Story
By Kimberly Kluger-Bell - The Pea that Was Me and ME and Me; How all Kinds of Babies are Made
By Kimberly Kluger-Bell - Raising You Alone
By Warren Hansen (single Mother by Choice) - Why Don’t I have a daddy? A Story about Donor Conception
By George Ann Clay (Single Mother by choice) - You Were Meant to Be
By Sherry Keen (Egg and Sperm donation) - Making Violet: A sperm donor story
By Erin DeVore - Before You Were Born….my wish for a baby
By Janice Grimes - For Mommy so Loved you
By Leigh James (single mother by choice) - Why I’m so Special: A Book about Surrogacy with two Daddies
By Carla Lewis-Long - The Kangaroo Pouch
By Sarah Phillips Pellet - All Kinds of Families
By Mary Ann Hoberman - Before you Were Born: Our wish for a Child series (16 book collection about IVF, egg donation, sperm donation surrogacy, lgbtqia)
By Janice Grimes, 2005 - Hope and Will have a Babu (4 book collection about egg donation, sperm donation, surrogacy and embryo donation
By Irene Celcer, 2007 - I love My Family: A Book about assisted conception for Young Children
By Tammy Troute-Wood, 2011 - Monday is One Day
By Arthur Levine, 2011 - My Beginnings: A very Special Story
By Tim Appleton - Recipes of How Babies are Made
By Carmen Martinez Jover, 2007 - What Makes a Baby
By Cory Silverberg, 2013 - You Were Made for Me
By Sherri Sturniolo - You Were Meant to Be
By Sherry Keen - Happy Together: An Egg donation Story
By Julie Marie - The Other Half of Me
By Emily Franklin (single mother by choice)