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Trying: Love, Loose Pants, and the Quest for a Baby First Edition
Author(s): Mark Cossey (Author)
- Publisher: Summersdale
- Publication Date: 6 May 2013
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849533989
- ISBN-13: 9781849533980
Book Description
‘Here again, Mr Cossey?’ asked the young Spanish embryologist, shooting me a welcoming smile as I followed him down the corridor. He had recognised me by sight and that wasn’t good. I was now the one thing you don’t want to be in a fertility clinic.
A regular.
Martha wanted a baby. Mark wanted a baby. What’s the worst that could happen?
In four years of baby-making boot camp, Mark and Martha face The Calendar, the joy of sober, scheduled sex, hostile cervical mucus, IUI and IVF. Through a combination of ignorance and outrage, Mark survives ejaculating into a small jar, stabbing his wife, having his sperm turned pink and group sex with whales.
Written with genuine laugh-out-loud humour and complete honesty, Trying is a noholds-barred welcome to the world of the infertile written by a man who has lived through it all and come through with his ultimate dream realised – his own family.
It says a lot when you can call two years of sleepless nights a happy ending.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Whether or not you have any point of reference with infertility Trying is a warm, insightful and enormously entertaining story of a couple’s bid for parenthood.’
― Spirit FM Book Club
‘Cossey uses humor brilliantly to relate the difficulty that he and his wife lived through when trying to start a family.’
― Library Journal (US)