Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story Book

Introduction     xi
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes ...
Meth Houses, Red Delicious Apples, and Infertile People     3
Pottery Barn, Wendy Spizziri, and Evil Catalogs     13
The First and Fourth Times I Knew I Wanted to Be a Father     27
Pills, Parents, and the Revenge of the Noodle Club     37
Baby, Baby, and Two More Babies     53
Periods, Parties, and Something That Was Nothing     61
The Second Time I Knew I Wanted to Be a Father     79
Faults, Fertility Fears, and Testicles on Ice     87
So This Sperm Walks into a Lab ...
Dr. GQ, Wailing Babies, and the Bathroom of Sin     105
Testosterone, Kyle, and a Metaphoric Foot to the Groin     127
The Third Time I Knew I Wanted to Be a Father     133
Endocrines, Dr. Leya, and the Intrepid "I" Word     139
Peanut, Doulas, and Tears in a Des Moines Hospital     153
Iodine E-mail from Daughter to Mother     165
Postcoital, Misconceptions, and a Room for Baby     169
Death, Love, and Crying Babies in Catholic Churches     183
The Fast, the Furious, and an Iris Through the Looking Glass     193
More Death, More Love, and More than Words     199
Turkeys, Cancer, and Alfred's Only Eye     209
Sex Doesn't Make Babies, Doctors Do
IUI, Genauseau, and the Pine Valley Dilemma     219
Tourists, Birthdays, and the Red Blood of Failure     229
Cocktails, IUI #2, and the Flat Tire That Obviously Hated Infertile People     237
Flashlights, Blood Streaks, and Text Messages from a Toilet     257
Acupuncture, Afghanistan Babies, and the Urologist Who Wasn't George Clooney     263
Facebook, Braces, and a "Sopranos"-esque Ending     279
Conclusion     289
Acknowledgments     295
About the Author     296
About the Blog     297