In this memoir, author Meisner, a creative writing teacher at Mount Royal University in Canada, describes how she and her partner started their family with concurrent pregnancies. With much humor and reflection, she reveals what led to their decision to give birth rather than adopt, and charts their search for a donor who wants to maintain some contact with the children. From conception through birth, both of their pregnancies are described in detail, never losing sight of the fact that birth is a miracle no matter the circumstances. Distributed by Brunswick Books of Toronto, Canada. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Girl meets girl. Girl marries girl. They want to have babies - but they need a little help. Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner's light-hearted, poignant and informative true story of two lesbians who want to have children. For a variety of reasons, one being that Natalie's wife is a woman of colour who was adopted into a white family, the
