have had an abortion by age 45 2.3 million women seek help for infertility each year and 7.5 million women (about 13% of women of reproductive age) are infertile or have significant difficulties bearing children.

In the section called “Ages 21-28: A Home of One’s Own: The Psychobiology of Mating and Motherhood,” Borysenko notes that 47% of women in the U.S. This book describes the stages of a woman’s life. The author discusses the importance of grieving loss and includes some suggestions.Ī Woman’s Book of Life, The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle (1996) Joan Borysenko PhD. The chapter entitled ”Our Fertility“ includes sections on healing pregnancy loss (abortion and miscarriage) transforming infertility, adoption and fertility as a metaphor. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing (1998, 1994) Christiane Northrup MD. Snappy and irreverent as well as moving, Silent Sorority offers a contrarian point of view in an era of mommy blogs, designer babies and helicopter parents. Outside of the physical reckoning there lies the challenge of moving forward in a society that doesn't know how to handle the awkwardness of infertility. This award-winning book reveals with candor, humor and poignancy the intense and at times absurd experience of adjusting to a life as a 'non-mom' when nature and science don't cooperate in the family building department. Manterfield is a comforting and supportive companion who will guide you gently down your own path to making peace with being childfree-not-by-choice and thriving in a new happily ever after.įinally Heard: A Silent Sorority Finds Its Voice (2015). Based on her small-group workshops and popular ebook workbook series, this book offers a combination of hard-won lessons, gentle queries, and real-world suggestions. Life Without Baby: Surviving and Thriving When Motherhood Doesn't Happen (2016) Lisa Manterfield. Here she addresses the taboo of childlessness and provides a powerful, practical 12-week guide to help women come to terms with their grief, and to move on to live creative, happy, meaningful, and fulfilling lives without children. Eventually she found her way and created the Gateway Women Network, helping many thousands of women worldwide. She presumed that she was through the toughest part, but over the next couple of years she was hit by waves of grief, despair and isolation. At the age of 44 she realized that her quest to be a mother was at an end. Jody Day would have liked to have had children, but it didn't work out that way. Most people think that women without children either 'couldn't' or 'didn't want to' be mothers. Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children (2020) Jody Day.

Reconceiving Women by Mardy S. Ireland