Hope & Will Have a Baby: The Gift of Egg Donation - Softcover

Irene Celcer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975581015 ISBN 13: 9780975581018

Publisher: Graphite Press, 2007

Synopsis

Follow an inquisitive little boy who learns of his parents' quest to have children, and the success they ultimately achieve in creating a family. Told in a language a child can understand, read the tale of how mom and dad met, fell in love, and ultimately built a family. This story on the gift of egg donation is part of a book collection that brings to light the many reproductive options of family building.We live in a world where telling our children about their origins seems to emphasize biology or technology at the unfortunate expense of the emotional climate that surrounds a family’s beginnings. It is important for children to know the love, excitement and enthusiasm that parents feel when children became part of their family. These emotions, sometimes joyous, sometimes challenging, are acknowledged in the Hope & Will Have a Baby collection of books in an appropriate way for little ears to hear and little minds to learn about.The books in this collection provide a delightfully new and refreshing way to tell children about their unique beginnings. Written by mental health and reproductive specialist Irene Celcer, and boldly portrayed by internationally recognized illustrator Horacio Gatto, each stand-alone volume recounts the same story from a different perspective, highlighting six distinct pathways to conception: egg donation, embryo donation, sperm donation, surrogacy, adoption, and traditional conception.Each book in this collection is available for individual purchase, and provides a great vehicle for parents to tell children how they came into this world. Come and celebrate the unique gift couples can receive on their way to becoming a family.

About this title

From the Publisher:

We live in a world where telling our children about their origins seems to emphasize biology or technology at the unfortunate expense of the emotional climate that surrounds a family's beginnings. It is important for children to know the love, excitement and enthusiasm that parents feel when children became part of their family. These emotions, sometimes joyous, sometimes challenging, are acknowledged in the Hope & Will Have a Baby collection of books in an appropriate way for little ears to hear and little minds to learn about.

Relating the tale of how a child came to be is sometimes fraught with awkwardness and embarrassment. This is true whether the story entails adoption, third party reproductive assistance, or even traditional conception. Many parents struggle to decide when, what or how to tell their children about their family's beginnings. Once finally parents, they may wonder if, how or when they should tell their offspring about their child's origins.

Irene Celcer, author of the Hope & Will collection, firmly believes that the well-being of children is based on healthy self-esteem, which comes from knowing who they are and how they came into this world and into their families. Although understanding the relational and biological parts of how humans are created is important, it is not the main concern of this collection. Rather it is the children's emotions of pride and love and of being deeply desired as their parents were building a family. This knowledge will help children build a strong sense of self-worth that will carry them throughout life.

This book collection can give parents a way to manage a task that may at first seem too overwhelming or stressful. It is meant to provide a way to talk about their desires to become parents and their ultimate success in doing so. It also is meant to give children an appropriate way to start understanding how they entered their family. Parents may choose to embellish, remove or add details of their own special family beginnings as they read to their children. And children will naturally do their own thing, with their own uncanny sense of innocence and delight. Ultimately, it is the family's traditions, culture, and religious beliefs that will dictate the degree of disclosure.

These books are here to help parents tell their children the loving story of their beginnings and the goodness and joyous celebration of their arrival. They accent the caring way that they were planned and how much they were wanted. The collection as a whole celebrates the diversity of ways that families can be created.

From the Author:

It is my ardent hope that writing this book will allow parents to experience the pride and joy they deserve to feel in their unique family building situation. And it is with even greater strength and will that I hope to give their children the pride and joy in knowing that the way into their family was a legitimate, authentic, and very loving event. Congratulations on becoming a family!

--Irene Celcer

About this edition

• Publisher: Graphite Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0975581015
• ISBN 13: 9780975581018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Horacio Gatto