Choice Moms: Building Strong Families Together

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Not only are single women who proactively choose motherhood growing in number, but we're turning to each other for support, advice and resources in innovative and empowering ways. This new website brings together some of the amazing information and communication tools available to the worldwide Choice Mom community.

What's New on the Choice Chat podcast

NEW Episode 12: Negotiating with a known donor.
Episode 11: Felicia, on taking a leap of faith, miscarriage and newborn days
Episode 10: What donor-conceived offspring tend to want to know.
Episode 6: How to carefully choose a sperm bank.

Check out the blogs:

• Becoming: Week 10 from Cathi about the struggles, and rewards, of being a new mom.
  
• Thinking: Beautiful essay from Jenny about being at the crossroads of an emotional, moral and philosophical decision; Kim struggles with the 'to be or not to be a mother' debate.
  
• Being: Jennifer asks how women decided to have two...the debate about settling for Mr. Good Enough continues...we have an interesting comments field related to the "dad" term.
  
• ChoiceMom: Interesting comments on the view of a Baptist minister about strong women and weak men; John McCain and his view that every child looking for adoptive parents needs both a mother and a father.
  
• Trying: Terri talks about her 7th BFN (no conception) and turning 40...and updates us in comments that her 8th attempt WORKED!!!!.
  
• Waiting: Julie wonders if she should share her many IUI disappointments and attempts with family and friends.

Sample Q&A:

• What to do when you're waiting to try, waiting to deliver, waiting to adopt.
  
• Recommended reading with our kids
  
• What do I need to know about using a known donor?
  
• Safe at-home insemination procedures with fresh or frozen sperm
  

Check out the resources particularly useful to the Choice Mom community, such as the Choice Mom Guide to Fertility and the Choice Mom Guide to Adoption

Our simple RSS feeds enable you to sign up for automatic notification of the newest blog entries, podcasts and topics that interest you, whether you are in the Thinking, Trying, Waiting, Becoming or Being stages of Choice Motherhood. If you need help with this, or downloading the podcast, contact our website developer.

As always, welcome to the discussion and the journey.