Read This: Waiting for Daisy

Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Rom by Peggy Orenstein

My review

I remember hearing about the first test-tube baby before I was ten years old. With new technology, new opportunities, and new torture for women, we’ve come a long way baby. From nun’s urine to not being sure whether she really wants a baby or just wants to be pregnant, Orenstein’s experiences at once exhaust, confound, and offer hope. Not having been through fertility treatments myself, I felt outside much of what is happening in this book. Yet, I found the chapter “Jizo Saves” about the bodhisattva who protects lost, miscarried, aborted, and dead children cathartic and enlightening.

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