If you have Starfish Envy, this is the place to start.
I really want to emphasize start, because this is by no means an exhaustive list of the resources available to you. These are simply some of the resources that have been helpful to me and to women I know.
I hope they can be helpful to you as well.
(This page will remain a work in progress. Please feel free to make suggestions if there's a resource that's been helpful to you that you feel I should add.)
INSEMINATION RESOURCES/SPERM BANKS
ADOPTION RESOURCES
to find your local FFA: childwelfare.gov/nfcad
BOOKS
ADOPTION
Adopting on Your Own, Lee Varon (a suggestion from InventingLiz)
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption, Barbara Katz Rothman
The Handbook for Single Adoptive Parents, Hope Marindin
Talking with Young Children About Adoption, Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher
Adopting in California, Randall B. Hicks
The Adoption Resource Book, Lois Gilman
CHOICE MOM/SINGLE MOMS BY CHOICE
Knock Yourself Up, Louise Sloan
In Her Own Sweet Time, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Choosing You: Deciding to Have a Baby on My Own, Alexandria Soiseth
Everything Conceivable, Liza Mundy
Behind Closed Doors, Moving Beyond Secrecy and Shame, edited by Mikki Morrissette in affiliation with the Donor Sibling Registry
Choice Moms Guide to Fertility, compiled by Mikki Morrissette
Choosing Single Motherhood, Mikki Morrissette
GENERAL
Spirit Babies: How to Communicate with the Child You're Meant to Have, Walter Makichen
The Single Parent Resource, Brook Noel with Art Klein
Our Babies, Ourselves, Meredith Small
GETTING PREGNANT
Both of these books are pretty much Must Read:
Taking Charge of Your Fertility, Toni Weschler, MPH
Making Babies, Sami S. David, Jill Blakeway
BEING PREGNANT
The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Campanion for Parents to Be, Tori Kropp
Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Fit & Pregnant: The Pregnant Woman's Guide to Exercise, Joan Marie Butler, RNC, CNM
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
The Infertility Cure, Randine Lewis, Ph.D.
WEBSITES
fertilityfriend.com (this terrific website helps you chart your cycle in great,and helpful, detail)
DOWNLOADS
Circle & Bloom I downloaded their fertility meditation program. It's pretty great.
FILMS
TELEVISION
BLOGS
HEALTH RESOURCES
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch website (there's also an iPhone app)Pulling Down the Moon's fertility yoga and meditation DVD is relaxing and invigorating. Wish I did it more often...
RADIO SHOWS/PODCASTS
Choosing Single Motherhood with Mikki Morrissette
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