Double Pregnant
Two Lesbians Make a Family
La description
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 couple decides not to take the anonymous sperm clinic route. Natalie and Viviën want their children to have some connection to their donor if possible. Taking matters into their own hands leads the couple to a series of often-hilarious “dates” with potential donors, all of whom have wildly different opinions on how the donation process should go and also of what this new, twenty-first-century version of a family will look like . “This book is so full of life and love, of effort and desire and the determination of two extraordinary women devoted to each other and to having a family. ”— Chapelle Jaffe, Canadian actor “What an accomplishment, to have written a page turner on a subject like this that is both moving and very funny. ”— Inge Fraters, Editor-in-Chief, KJIK Magazine & Know How Sonoma Publishing “A passionate and engaging account of a lesbian couple's struggle to have a family. The book is not about sexuality or gender identity; it's about love. ”— Beth Everest, writer, professor and editor "
Reviews
“Passionate and engaging account of a lesbian couple’s struggle to have a family. The book is not about sexuality or gender identity; it’s about love.”
- Beth Everest, Writer, Professor and Editor
“…an honest recollection of the journey [Natalie and her wife] embarked upon while being pregnant at the same time.”
- Calgary Journal
“This story implemented so firmly in my mind I completely missed my stop on the train ride home. I want everyone I know to go and see this play. I want it to be performed in schools. It does such a lovely job of conveying a reality that many are oblivious to: that lesbian and gay couples are just as destined to raise families as anyone else is. They just might have to jump a few hilarious, and horrendous, hurdles to get there.” – Gay Calgary Magazine
“This story implemented so firmly in my mind I completely missed my stop on the train ride home. I want everyone I know to go and see this play. I want it to be performed in schools. It does such a lovely job of conveying a reality that many are oblivious to: that lesbian and gay couples are just as destined to raise families as anyone else is. They just might have to jump a few hilarious, and horrendous, hurdles to get there.”
- Gay Calgary Magazine
“A touching and amusing love story about two women, two babies and one happy family.”
- Winnipeg Free Pres
“What an accomplishment, to have written a page turner on a subject like this that is both moving and very funny.”
- Inge Fraters, KJIK Magazine, Know How Sonoma Publishing
“Reading about Meisner’s struggles to not just get pregnant, but to get pregnant at the same time as her wife, was a tad surreal and very rewarding.”
- Outwords Magazine
“Meisner’s book is, above all, a love story, and a close-to-the-bone account of one couple’s hopeful and ultimately rewarding journey to parenthood.”
- Calgary Herald
“This book is so full of life and love, of effort and desire and the determination of two extraordinary women devoted to each other and to having a family. Their journey is both delightfully humorous and at times heartrendingly desperate, but they had the courage to solve the riddle, and in the process, they created enchantment.”
- Chapelle Jaffe, Actor