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Minton, a former senior editor at Knopf, was 30 and unable to conceive. She and her husband tried various infertility protocols before finding success with in vitro fertilization. Minton's twin boys were born dangerously premature, at 31 weeks; they went immediately into neonatal intensive care, where they stayed for two months. Even after going home, they were medicated and monitored because they tended to stop breathing when feeding. Eventually their health stabilized and, 21 months later, Minton and her husband decided to unfreeze another of their fertilized eggs, producing a third son. While there are many infertility memoirs on the market, Minton's advantages set her work apart. She was young and healthy enough to undergo infertility treatment. Her employers were flexible. Her husband was able to support her with his generous paycheck, and her insurance company was willing to pay the $1 million she estimated the twins cost. Although the book's first half is riveting, Minton's comfortable situation turns the second half—when the twins are out of danger—into a sentimental monologue. Infertility memoirs are variations on a single plot: the struggle to give birth to viable babies. Once the mission is accomplished, mom's better off sharing the routine child-rearing stories with immediate family only. (Apr.)
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At 30 years old, after nine months of trying to conceive, Minton and her husband turned to a fertility clinic. After in vitro fertilization, Minton gave birth prematurely to twin boys--Gus and Sam--each weighing only three and a half pounds. The boys spent 64 days in neonatal intensive care before their parents took them home to a lifetime of uncertainty about the effect of prematurity on their development. As they grew and began to catch up with other children, Minton's worries lessened but her concern remained for the implications of so many multiple and premature births to women impregnated via IVF. She offers a gripping account of the time from birth to release from the hospital to comfort and joy in parenthood. Minton laments that many fertility clinics separate the pregnancy from the actual babies. In this very personal, heartfelt look at her own pregnancy, Minton offers an enthralling perspective on fertility treatment and a generation of parents--and children--engaged in changes in the virtually unregulated arena of reproductive medicine. Vanessa Bush
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Minton, a former senior editor at Knopf, was 30 and unable to conceive. She and her husband tried various infertility protocols before finding success with in vitro fertilization. Minton's twin boys were born dangerously premature, at 31 weeks; they went immediately into neonatal intensive care, where they stayed for two months. Even after going home, they were medicated and monitored because they tended to stop breathing when feeding. Eventually their health stabilized and, 21 months later, Minton and her husband decided to unfreeze another of their fertilized eggs, producing a third son. While there are many infertility memoirs on the market, Minton's advantages set her work apart. She was young and healthy enough to undergo infertility treatment. Her employers were flexible. Her husband was able to support her with his generous paycheck, and her insurance company was willing to pay the $1 million she estimated the twins cost. Although the book's first half is riveting, Minton's comfortable situation turns the second half—when the twins are out of danger—into a sentimental monologue. Infertility memoirs are variations on a single plot: the struggle to give birth to viable babies. Once the mission is accomplished, mom's better off sharing the routine child-rearing stories with immediate family only. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
At 30 years old, after nine months of trying to conceive, Minton and her husband turned to a fertility clinic. After in vitro fertilization, Minton gave birth prematurely to twin boys--Gus and Sam--each weighing only three and a half pounds. The boys spent 64 days in neonatal intensive care before their parents took them home to a lifetime of uncertainty about the effect of prematurity on their development. As they grew and began to catch up with other children, Minton's worries lessened but her concern remained for the implications of so many multiple and premature births to women impregnated via IVF. She offers a gripping account of the time from birth to release from the hospital to comfort and joy in parenthood. Minton laments that many fertility clinics separate the pregnancy from the actual babies. In this very personal, heartfelt look at her own pregnancy, Minton offers an enthralling perspective on fertility treatment and a generation of parents--and children--engaged in changes in the virtually unregulated arena of reproductive medicine. Vanessa Bush
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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