Waiting for Daisy

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Waiting for Daisy is the story of one couple's mission to have a baby. It is about doing all the things you swore you would never do to get something you hadn't even been sure you wanted. It's a real-life journey of loss, love, anger and redemption. Told with raw candour and rare wit, it includes stories of femal survivors of the Hiroshima bomb.

Description

This book is about loss, love, anger and redemption. It's about being a woman in a confusing, contradictory time. It's about testing the limits of a loving marriage. And it's about trying (and trying and trying) to have a baby. Orenstein's story begins when she tells her new husband that she's not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after she's done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal, from "fertility sex" to escalating infertility treatments to New Age remedies to forays into international adoption. Her saga unfolds just as professional women are warned by the media to heed their biological clocks, and just as fertility clinics have become a boom industry. Buffeted by one obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual in America and Asia, as she tries to hold onto a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures and disappointments.--From publisher description.

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Other Editions

• Waiting for Daisy: a tale of two continents, three religions, five infertility doctors, an oscar, an atomic bomb, a romantic night, and one woman's quest to become a motherBloomsbury USA ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers2006-01-01
• Waiting for DaisyBloomsbury2007-01-01
• Waiting for DaisyHardcoverBloomsbury USA2007-02-06
• Waiting for DaisyPaperbackBloomsbury USA2007-12-26
• Waiting for DaisyBloomsbury USA2007-12-26
• Waiting for DaisyBloomsbury Publishing USA2008-01-01