Fertile Heart:

Debra Doubrava PhD

Description

Celebrate the magical story and whimsical illustrations with YOUR child of becoming a single parent by choice and how wanted and loved they truly are.
Fertile Heart: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made celebrates the courageous and empowering journey to single parenting by choice with the assistance of fertility angel helpers. Fertile Heart is modeled after Fertile Love, which was inspired by the author’s own fertility struggles and ultimate experience of how she and her husband (like other couples) made a baby with the help of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Fertile Heart was written as a read aloud love story and family heirloom for a single parent by choice to share with their little one to celebrate and explain how their magical child came to be in the world. The illustrations are gender and race inclusive, and journaling prompts at the end create an opportunity for each parent to add elements specific to their own life journey and path to parenthood.

Sujets

• Medical
• LGBTQ+
• Psychoeducation
• Bibliotherapy
• Egg donation
• Surrogacy
• Fertility
• Single-parent
• Artificial insemination
• Infertility
• Self-help
• In vitro fertilisation
• Psychology
• Medicine
• Diversity
• Inventaire des voies de communication historiques de la Suisse
• Parent
• Family Life
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 20 juillet 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765241493
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Fertile Heart:

The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made

Debra Doubrava, PhD

Illustrated by Nicole Smith-Merry, MS Julia Parker
Copyright © 2023 Debra Doubrava, PhD.

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Illustrated by Nicole Smith-Merry, MS Julia Parker

ISBN: 979-8-7652-4148-6 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-4149-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023908087



Balboa Press rev. date: 07/10/2023
Foreword
As a psychologist with over 20 years of experience helping prospective parents prepare to use fertility assistance in their quest to have children, I was thrilled to see Fertile Love: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made (2022) and now Fertile Heart: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made (2023) by Debra Doubrava, PhD. I recommend the reading of books as a helpful way to introduce children to their own story. These books, with their simple narratives and whimsical, brightly colored illustrations, offer an opportunity for parents and children to have a gradually more detailed discussion of the fertility journey and the magic and love that helped bring a very special being into the world.
- Joan L. Bitzer, Psychologist

Fertile (adj.) bearing in abundance.

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart
go walking around outside your body.
-Elizabeth Stone

Dedicated to our loved ones and to families everywhere
who are made by magical decisions and fertile hearts.
May YOU all live abundantly ever after!!!
Once upon a time (by the way
many truly magical stories begin this way
and this truly IS a magical story)...
there was a person who had a full life and a fertile heart.