Lori Gottlieb and the New Family
In 2008, after two years of failing to make a child organically, we learned the doom Kathy had already been feeling for more than a year was justified: I was diagnosed with male-factor infertility. Our only real chance to move forward would be in vitro fertilization. We couldn’t afford it; we couldn’t afford not to do it. One way we tried to work through that diagnosis, our anger, and our options was to start a secret infertility blog, “Less Than a Million.” This post and what comments from 2008 that are attached to it come from that blog.—gb
I am a week behind on this, but did you notice that Lori Gottlieb’s lukewarm praise for settling on a man (reprised last week on Talk of the Nation) exists in part because of ART? In vitro fertilization allowed Gottlieb the liberty to conceive sans partner; however, it also complicated her search for a partner. I suppose it is possible that the article might have been written in a pre-ART world, but it seems unlikely.
