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Waiting for Daisy is about loss, love, anger and redemption. It's about doing all the things you swore you'd never do to get something you hadn't even been sure you wanted. It's about being a woman in a confusing, contradictory time. It's about testing the limits of a loving marriage. And it's about trying (and trying and trying) to have a baby.
Orenstein's story begins when she tells her new husband that she's not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after she's done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal, from "fertility sex" to escalating infertility treatments to New Age remedies to forays into international adoption. Her saga unfolds just as professional women are warned by the media to heed the ticking of their biological clocks, and just as fertility clinics have become a boom industry, with over two million women a year seeking them out. Buffeted by one jaw-dropping obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual in America and Asia, along the way visiting an old flame who's now the father of fifteen, and discovering in Japan a ritual of surprising solace. All the while she tries to hold onto a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures and disappointments. Waiting for Daisy is an honest, wryly funny report from the front, an intimate page-turner that illuminates the ambivalence, obsession, and sacrifice that characterize so many modern women's lives.
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Matthew Porter
reviewed Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother on April 08, 2007
Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
The publication I work for has recruited Peggy Orenstein as a writer, so her publishing company sent me a copy of her newest book. I didn't know much about her, other than she wrote an article for The New York Times Magazine (is it okay for little girls to loooooove princesses, pink and glitter?) that I loved.
Now I feel like I know EVERYTHING about her. This book is a memoir of Peggy Orenstein and her devoted husband trying to get pregnant. For a year....then two....then six.
They try *everything* imaginable, from IVF to Chinese hamster guts to Italian nun hormones (no, I'm not making this up) to good old-fashioned sex. Nothing works - at least, nothing works for six years. I've yet to find out what eventually brings Daisy, the couple's young daughter, into the world. But it's more interesting than it sounds to read about all the differnt ways a pair of strangers tries to get pregnant. Because rather than a gets-old-fast "and then I tried this, and then I tried that" account, Orenstein consistently ruminates over one of the great feminist questions of our day: when should a woman get pregnant?
Indeed, one of the best achievements of second-wave and third-wave feminism is that women have the opportunity to accomplish more in their careers and personal lives before having children - or not having children at all. Orenstein was on the fence about having kids; then her biological clock went off like an alarm clock on the first day of the school year. She's my kind of feminist: doesn't buy into any of the crap about only women who have children as valuable, how sad you must be if you want to have children, and (what she struggles with the most) you shouldn't wait too long to have kids.
But then you could end up like Peggy Orenstein and be in your late thirties, spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on chances (which at times feel like snake oil, I'd imagine. Quite the paradox.
Trying to get pregant - rather, a feminist trying to get pregnant is a really fascinating memoir.
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