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Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple's Quest to Have a Baby Broché – 7 janvier 2008

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Buffeted by one jaw-dropping obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual, all the while trying to save a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures, and disappointments. Her journey takes her around America and as far as East Asia - on the way she visits an ex-boyfriend who now has fifteen children; encounters 'parasite singles' in Tokyo, women who are rejecting marriage and motherhood in favour of shopping sprees and foreign travel; and shares stories with survivors of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The world's professional women are only now beginning to become aware of the risks and realities of 'having it all', and Orenstein's saga unfolds as infertility is developing into a boom industry, with over a million women a year seeking treatment. "Waiting for Daisy" is a profoundly honest, wryly funny report from the front, a story about doing all the things you swore you'd never do to get something you hadn't even been sure you wanted; it's about being a woman, about trying to become a mother, and above all, about the ambivalence, obsession and sacrifice that characterises the struggles of so many modern couples.

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240 pages
Langue

Anglais
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date de publication

7 janvier 2008
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20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
ISBN-10

0747594295
ISBN-13

978-0747594291
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Peggy Orenstein is the author of Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap and Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World. A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, her work has also appeared in USA Today, Elle, Vogue and the New Yorker, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Steven Okazaki, and their daughter, Daisy.

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Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (7 janvier 2008)
Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
Broché ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0747594295
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747594291
Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 316 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm

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jasperoo

Honest, painful but still uplifting.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 26 juin 2016

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This is the story of how a couple eventually became parents. It is heartfelt and totally honest. To be recommended.

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Danielle Logan

I'd recommend it for the simple fact that we crazy infertility ladies need to know we're not alone out there!

Commenté au Canada 🇨🇦 le 17 septembre 2015

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There were some very powerful, relatable thoughts and feelings shared by Peggy that made me feel more accepting of my own struggles with infertility. Her writing is very easy to follow and I finished the book in less than a week.
The only reason it's not a 5/5 for me is completely personal, but I would have loved for her to share some guidelines or tips for coping with infertility. However, this book was written as her own bit of history, so it's still completely enjoyable.

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33 year old lawyer

Funny, interesting, and a unique, refreshing infertility story

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 10 avril 2007

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First, I liked this book because it was entertaining. And a fast read. Orenstein is funny. She's extremely candid about her fertility treatments, both conventional and alternative. One of the things I liked MOST in the book is that she seeks out alternative medicine...and it FAILS. I get so tired of these inspirational, "I became a vegan and took acupuncture and all of a sudden...I was pregnant. Yippee!" In fact, Orenstein's acupuncturist basically dumps her when she can't get pregnant after a long time! LOL! She also even goes so far as to get donor eggs from a young woman whom she had befriended, who was an admirer of her earlier books. She feels guilty about asking this young woman to do it....but the guilt doesn't stop her. And the IVF with the 21 year old donor's eggs fails, too. She does conventional IVF, too, which ultimately fails..and writes about how shoddily her case was handled at IVF clinics, where the doctors seem more concerned with a fast profit than with long term success for their patients. Oh, and she had cancer, too, right before her infertility started. Frankly, I am surprised anyone encouraged her to go on all these fertility drugs and to get pregnant in light of that risk factor. But she goes for it anyway. So, Orenstein pretty much experiences it all...and watches everything.. . FAIL. She is also very frank about her fights with her husband, which seem serious.

One reviewer said the book is really negative, and whining. I don't agree with that. I think Orenstein is funny, and a survivor. She's an example of the kind of person who can take the hit and keep going back to the drawing board. I would think people struggling with fertility would actually empathize and enjoy reading this book. On the other hand, since Orenstein did have bad experiences with most of the things she tried, if people want to keep on rose colored glasses about their chances for any particular procedure, then yeah, Orenstein's recounting of her negative ones isn't going to give them any cheer....

The one potentially frustrating thing is that clearly this book is going to appeal to women who are having fertility issues. And this book contains a wierd, inexplicable happy ending of her being able to conceive and successfully carry the baby to term ... out of the blue. (Her main issue wasn't conceiving, but with experiencing constant miscarriage). On one hand, it's a good lesson that our bodies can sometimes do that sort of stuff...but if you are looking for commiseration in infertility, this sort of pat, inexplicable, Hollywood type ending, "And when I least expected it, I got pregnant!!!" may be exactly what you do NOT feel like hearing right now.... For stories of women who had infertility that did NOT resolve, then I would suggest Ann Taylor Fleming's "Motherhood Deferred" or Liz Tilberis' "No Time to Die." She also seems to want a biological child so strongly that she basically seems to intentionally avoid an adoption that almost falls into her lap. If you have adopted kids, or think you would like to adopt, you might find yourself disliking Orenstein or being amazed at her behavior regarding this...

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NYCRed

I loved this book!

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 4 septembre 2011

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I am so grateful to Peggy Orenstein for writing this book. It's the first memoir about infertility I've read that truly captured my experience. Orenstein's humor and unsparing honesty made me feel like someone out there got me--and got how utterly crazy infertility can make an otherwise intelligent and competent woman. The obsessiveness, the hopelessness, the damage to one's marriage and self-esteem, the constant "what if's," the conviction that we've done everything wrong--she gets it. What's more, she can chronicle it in such a way that you're laughing out loud. I've read this book twice now, and each time it brings comfort and makes me smile. I'm sure I'll read it again before my infertility journey is over. A great book.

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Martha May

Waiting indeed!

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 9 mai 2007

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I could have written this book. I SHOULD have written this book! But reading it was almost as good. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I recognized many of the players Peggy Orenstein encountered on her quest for fertility. As I sit here drinking mud-flavored Chinese herbs, trying not to get stressed because I am stressed that I cannot get pregnant, injecting myself with horrible concoctions to boost my hormones that have caused me to put on 15 pounds in the last 6 months, let's just say I can RELATE! This fertility stuff is NOT FUN and yet reading Peggy's book made me laugh so hard I cried. A kindered spirit! Someone else who has been there and survived! And been through worse than I could imagine. I tried reading it to my husband, hoping he would join in my glee at looking in the mirror and laughing at myself. Since his words were almost identitical to Peggy's husbands (why do we ALWAYS have to do it in the missionary position? Why can't I take a hot bath?) he could not even hear the words, they so hit the mark. Thank you Peggy for this well written (more than just a fertility book it also covers the Atomic bomb victims of Hiroshima and the beauracracy of adoption side by side with the feminist angst and ambilivence of wanting to be a mother and a career woman and a free spirit in today's society) and humorous glimpse into your life and the lives of so many of us 40 somethings who find ourselves wondering how did life go by so fast that the window of mother hood has almost slammed shut!?

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