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10th May 2013
Losing our baby: The pain of a miscarriage
My name is Grace. I’ve been reading the personal stories on this site since last year, and when my partner Cara and I started IUI treatments with donor sperm 10 months ago, I thought I’d be writing in to share the news of my pregnancy. Sadly, the story that I am sharing is a different [...]
26th April 2013
Learning the hard way that science has not outsmarted mother nature
My name is Miriam. I am one of those women who delayed motherhood until the age of 40. I was fit and healthy, ate well and practiced yoga. I had no idea that trying to become pregnant would be so difficult. Since I was a teenager I had been bombarded by cultural and media messages [...]
12th April 2013
How I came to donate my eggs
My name is Claire Burns. When I was twenty-two years old I was a student at the University of Toronto, majoring in history and political science. One evening, when I took a break from studying, I headed for the cafeteria to buy a coffee and a bag of Doritos. On a large bulletin board right [...]