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Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination: A Complete Resource Guide [Paperback]

Elizabeth Noble (Author)
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January 4, 1988
Elizabeth Noble has written a startling analysis of the practical, legal, and ethical problems infertile couples face in becoming parents. She addresses these problems with an eye for technological advances and draws apon her own families experience.

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Noble (Maternal and Child Health Center, Cambridge, Mass.) provides thorough coverage of donor insemination (DI) as an alternative in parenting. Writing from personal experience, she covers in detail ethical, legal, and biological issues. She includes do-it-yourself procedures for DI (insisting it is not a medical matter) and makes a strong case for DI and open adoption because of children's basic need for a complete genetic history. Startling and controversial on a new social topic, this book is strongly recommended for public legal and medical collections. Karen Hays Jackson, Susanna Wesley Sch., Tallahassee, Fla.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Elizabeth Noble is the author of seven books, including Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year, Childbirth with Insight, and Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination. She is the founder of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, and of the Maternal and Child Health Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 462 pages
  • Publisher: Mariner Books (January 4, 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 039545395X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0395453957
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,615,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Elizabeth Noble was born and raised in Australia, where she completed studies in physiotherapy, philosophy, and anthropology. She was an American Field Service Exchange Student to Tucson, AZ in 1961.

In 1973 after living abroad, she returned to the USA and founded the Section on Women's Health of the American Physical Therapy Association.

Her first book was Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year, now in a revised 4th edition. After its publication she was invited to create a video with MGM of an exercise program she designed for Marie Osmond during her first pregnancy. Two more books resulted: Marie Osmond's Exercises for Mothers-to-Be, and Marie Osmond's Exercises for Mothers and Babies.

She wrote the first book for expectant parents of multiples, now in its 3rd edition, Having Twins--and More. Her interest in psychology led her to write Primal Connections: How our Experiences from Conception to Birth Influence our Emotions, Behavior and Health and Childbirth with Insight. A fierce advocate for the rights of children, she wrote Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination and The Joy of Being a Boy.

Her decades of presenting seminars, and professional membership in National Speakers Association, honed her interest in communication. Her website, ennobler.net provides resources on international communication issues as does her latest book, Winners Speak Globish.

 

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT BOOK, June 25, 2000
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This review is from: Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination: A Complete Resource Guide (Paperback)
How did Elizabeth Noble conceive with a sperm donor she knew but without having sex with him? How did her family feel about it? This is an thought provoking book which not only tells Noble's story but has an interesting chapter on donor offspring and their reactions at learning as adults that they have biological fathers who are not the fathers they grew up with. While this is a good book I would also recommend to anyone planning to by this book to also buy Helping the Stork: The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination by Vercollone. Vercollone's book helps you discuss DI with your donor offspring so they don't become bitter...which was Noble's experience.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible INSENSITIVE HORRIBLE book, October 27, 2003
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This review is from: Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination: A Complete Resource Guide (Paperback)
This is a terrible book. It refers to children by DI as "illegitimate" and compares donor insemination to adultery. Its a terrible book and I don't recommend it to anyone.
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7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars It's NOT What You Do but HOW You Do It!!, May 5, 2004
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F. Auer (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination: A Complete Resource Guide (Paperback)
Nothing in life is perfect and nothing we do ever matters, from conceing out children in the most natural and "normal" of ways to using any sort of infertility assistance-- what truly matters in the end is the WHYs and the HOWs of everything we do.

This is an ugly, embittered, and even mean-spirited book and I'd advice anyone very much in lvoe with a partner, male or female, who is infertile, to NOT read this book: it'll ake your already fearful feelings worse, and for no logical reason.

In a perfect world, we'd all be able to conceive at the drop of a hat. But the world is not perfect and neither is nature, yet does not make our lives any more beautiful and worthwhile.

If you love someone fiercely and they, for not fault of their own, cannot conceive but you still want to create a family together, then do everything in your power to form a family-- by sperm, egg, embryo donations or adoption.

In the end, it''ll make little difference-- for yourself, your partner, or your offspring.

Because what truly matters is love, genuine love.

Your children will feel the love between you, before and after they've been brought into the world and within your family. That lvoe will make them secure forever, regardless of how they arrived at your doorstep.

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