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The Teaberry Strangler Meet the author Laura Childs |
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici Meet the author C.W. Gortner |
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 Matthew M. F. Miller Dear Librarian, Of the millions of couples each year who will encounter difficulty conceiving, half of those couples will have difficulty conceiving because of male infertility. The male voice is not often heard in the mostly female arena of conception and pregnancy and when my wife, Constance, and I discovered that easy conception was not to be, I found my voice and started to blog. The result has been a hilarious account, a romantic comedy, if you will, of inappropriate moments at the urologist’s office, reproductive clinics, survival, and (hopefully one day) triumph, all through the eyes of one man—me. My wife got her period for the tenth month in a row, and I stood in the bathroom having never felt like less of a man in my entire life. “I think it’s time,” I said. “We should buy an over-the-counter sperm test so I can know it’s my fault already.” One trip to the pharmacy, two home-fertility tests, and four days later, I officially had a low sperm count, and our inability to conceive finally attached itself to the word we had avoided uttering in ten months of unsuccessful sex. We were infertile, and it was, indeed, my fault. My infertile journey has brought me to ePregnancy.com where I am now a featured blogger, my quarterly Maybe Baby column appears in a syndicated magazine that runs in more than 70 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada and my blog appears on the websites of more than 15 national newspapers. I live in Chicago and would be more than happy to make appearances at local libraries and in the surrounding suburban area. Visit my blog which Parents magazine has named a top-five fatherhood blog at www.maybebaby.com. Matthew M. F. Miller Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story / Matthew M. F. Miller / Health Communications, Inc. / Paperback; 224 Pages
Price: $14.95 / ISBN: 9780757307485 / Published: September, 2008 Matthew M. F. Miller is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |