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Baby B
Baby B
Author: Michael Ryan
First published as an essay in The New Yorker, Baby B is a fascinating story of technology, babies, and unconditional love — I have been telling my friends that what I am injecting into my wife, Doreen, this week is crushed, powdered Chinese hamster ovaries. This is not quite the truth. I am injecting her with cells from C...  more »

Baby B is an embryo-one of four that have been implanted into Michael Ryan's wife, Doreen. Their story is told from the rarely voiced perspective of the hoping-to-be father. As they face the prospect of failure one day and of quadruplets another, the couple must endure an emotional roller coaster of fear, exhaustion, and self-doubt.

With candor and humor, Ryan chronicles an adventure and a love story: a strange and awe-inspiring medical process that, if everything goes just right, results in human life.
ISBN-13: 9781555973988
ISBN-10: 1555973981
Publication Date: 5/1/2004
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Graywolf Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Fascinating personal account of one man and his wife's struggle with infertility.


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