Books for Adults-Parenting/Talking with Your Kids |
- Before You Were Born...Our Wish For A Baby, by Janice Grimes. This is a series of books written for preschoolers that explore the different ways babies are conceived, including IVF, single parents, same-sex parents, surogacy, and donor sperm and egg. The illustrations in each book are the same, but the text changes depending on the subject.
- Hope and Will Have a Baby, by Irene Celcer. Written for ages 5-8, this series of books tells birth stories about surrogacy, egg donation, embryo donation, sperm donation, and adoption. The beginning and end of each book is the same, but the middle section is specific to each topic. Contains some religious overtones.
- How Babies and Families are Made: There is More than One Way!, by Patricia Schaffer (ages 5-9). This is a basic sex ed book for families formed in alternative ways. It includes a discussion of miscarriage, cesarean delivery, twins, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, adoption and stepchildren. Surrogacy and donor egg are not discussed, but the book in inclusive enough to open the door for this discussion. The book may be too technical for the younger end of the range, but it is still a worthy addition to your sex ed library/all families are different and the same collection.
- How I Began: The Story of Donor Insemination, by New South Wales Infertility Social Workers Group (ages 10-14). This story explains how a couple uses donor sperm to conceive a child. It contains nudity and descriptions of sex, so it is better suited for older children.
- Let Me Explain: A Story About Donor Insemination, by Jane T. Schnitter (ages 6-10). This book tells how donor insemination is used by a heterosexual couple.
- Mommy Did I Grow in Your Tummy?: Where Some Babies Come From, by Elaine Gordon & Kathy Clo (ages 4-8). This story explains the different ways babies are made. It includes IVF, egg donation, sperm donation, surrogacy, and adoption.
- My Story: Child's Introduction to Donor Insemination, by Sheila Cooke (ages 4-8). This is an older book that gives an overview of donor insemination for younger children.
- Where Did I Really Come From? Sexual Intercourse, DI, IVF, GIFT, Pregnancy, Birth, Adoption and Surrogacy, by Narelle Wickham (ages 6-12). A sex education books that tells abut different ways to create a family. Contains nudity.
- Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates by Dr. Diane Ehrensaft. This book makes the case for telling your children about the way they were conceived and gives lots of practical suggestions. I interviewed Dr. Ehrensaft for Creating a Family on Feb. 6, 2008 about parenting children conceived through Assisted Reproduction. You can listen to this show on the radio page of this website.
- Flight of the Stork by Anne Bernstein. This book is about how kids think about sex, reproduction, and how families are created. It is not necessarily specific to kids conceived through ART, but the information on the developmental stages of a child's understanding is very helpful for parents when discussing the special way the child was conceived. This book is was revised in 1994, but the information on child development is still current.
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