Taking Baby Steps

Download or read book Taking Baby Steps written by Jody Lyneé Madeira and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions through forming treatment relationships with medical professionals to confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates how women, men, and medical professionals negotiate infertility’s rocky terrain to create life and build families—a journey across personal, medical, legal, and ethical minefields that can test mental and physical health, friendships and marriages, spirituality, and financial security.