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We've Launched New Choice Mom E-Guides!
Our Choice Mom E-Guide to Home Insemination is now available on the website, for the many women who can benefit from expert insight on fertility and sperm, and Choice Mom stories and how-to advice.
Every two weeks for the next several months I'll be rolling out a new e-guide on a different topic. Most of them 20-page downloadable PDFs on our favorite topics and ChoiceMoms.org keywords ("how to deal with stress," "building a support network"). A comprehensive collection of the best of our insights, to give you fine-tuned access to our website library of more than 400 articles.
I'd like to keep these e-guides available for free to our community, but I can only do that if members of the Choice Mom community who benefit from our discussion boards and information can find their way to donating to the cause -- paying it forward so that women can continue to benefit from free and low-cost resources at ChoiceMoms.org. Can you donate $5? (use this button, or use "Send Money" function at Paypal.com and send to choicemom @ gmail.com)
- Next up: an e-book for Choice Moms of multiples.
- Coming soon, regional guides: "So you want to be a Choice Mom in..." for D.C., New York City, Chicago and many more.
- An updated e-guide to embryo donation.
- An e-book about IVF. Do you want to share your story? What did you learn through the process? How did medications affect you? What did it cost? Deadline: September 1.
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Update on Choice Mom Networking Events
Two more days for early-bird registration to our next event!
We'll be in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, September 9.Registration is open for this afternoon of in-depth conversation, a great lunch, free parking, inexpensive childcare. Take advantage of a special $129 Choice Mom rate (ends Saturday, August 18!) for an overnight at the Westin downtown. Sponsor California Cryobank is offering a free vial of sperm in a raffle drawing, along with other prizes.
I'm looking for women interested in meeting at a weekend retreat at Earthrise in northern San Francisco in 2013. And on October 20, we'll have a small gathering in Orange County, California. Send an email to info @ choicemoms.org to express your interest in either of these.
Use the EVENTS tab at ChoiceMoms.org to find up-to-date information.
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Commentary: I started a series based on my recent reading of Oriah Mountain Dreamer's "The Invitation." Find the first blog here. Read the second blog, "Can Mothers Have Longings?," here.
Home Insemination: NEW E-guide, sponsored by The Sperm Bank of California
Fertility: If you are CMV negative
Popular Articles of the Month
Telling and Talking: My son, 8, met his bio-dad
Thinking: Typical success rates for women over 40
Becoming: Post-partum depression
Highlights: Choice Mom Resources
(if these links don't work for you, use the Search box on the website for these titles)
Regional Guides: "So you want to be a Choice Mom in Toronto"
Directory: Choice Mom-friendly fertility clinics
Five Myths About Choice Motherhood
Support from city to city
The Choice Chat podcast is a great tool for hearing from experts and fellow moms; this post will lead you to all of them (http://www.choicemoms.org/blog/226/what_choice_moms_are_listening_to)
Storybook for Children: "I Felt You Flutter in My Heart," illustrated by six Choice Kids, and the perfect size for young fingers. A simple and bright story about how much we love them.
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Talking Amongst Ourselves
I am putting together a new community discussion place at Big Tent, which will be introduced in September. In the meantime, join us at:
(general one, offers specialized topics and stages, from Thinking to Being, just like ChoiceMoms.org)
(for the challenges of becoming or being an "older" mom)
Choice Moms on Twitter: @ChoiceMoms
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Visit ChoiceMoms.org for ongoing resources dedicated to connecting and informing the Choice Mom community.
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