tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65566932275028410382024-02-07T12:24:58.532-08:00Giving the Baby BackDaffodil Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16717449858483592519noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556693227502841038.post-13543668319759334872013-09-30T10:41:00.000-07:002013-10-26T11:03:17.695-07:00<i>Giving the Baby Back: finding motherhood through infertility, foster care, and adoption</i> is the story of how I became a mother. Which is to say, by any means necessary. And I used all of the means.<br />
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While my <a href="http://www.daffodilcampbell.com/">blog</a> leans towards the irreverent with an extra helping of oversharing, writing this book has been a change of pace for me. A thousand word blog post is a project I can get my head around. Sixty thousand words? Not so much. But it is a quick read - very unlike the process it took to write it.</div>
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Anyone who has thought about being a parent for more than a minute is aware of all the risks and challenges involved in raising a child.<br />
Anyone who has thought about parenting and decided to go ahead and <i>become </i>a parent, only to be faced with a very difficult path to parenthood can assure you: actually manifesting a child in need of parenting can be more difficult than the lifetime of parent/child drama that lies ahead.</div>
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At times during the last 20 years, I have had many moments of wonder.</div>
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Wonder at the cost of infertility drugs.</div>
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Wonder at every living thing's determination to propagate (or not).</div>
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Wonder at the miracle of life and it's simultaneous fragility and tenacity. </div>
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Wonder at the amount of poop and vomit that can be generated by something that has only been out in the world for a week and has a stomach the size of a walnut.</div>
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Parenthood - before, during, and after the baby is finally in your arms - is humbling. It is the one true way to learn that we have no control over life. We're just here to live it. And maybe clean it up from time to time.</div>
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If you are thinking about parenting - in all of it's many, many forms - or trying to become a parent, I hope you will read <i>Giving the Baby Back</i>. It's an honest, messy recounting of all of the many stories and people involved in helping to create my family. It takes a village, not just to raise a child but to be lucky enough to have one to call your own in the first place.<br />
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Paperback can be purchased via this website (in the top right corner)<br />
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please email daffodilcampbell@live.com for more information<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">"By going into foster parenting hoping to adopt, I probably became a foster parent for the wrong reasons. But I continue to foster because I have come to understand how valuable the experience is for everyone involved." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">"Giving the Baby Back" documents one young woman's single-minded pursuit of motherhood, and the relationships and opportunities that developed along the way. A personal, sometimes anguishing reflection on decisions made, risks taken, and how it feels to raise another woman's child. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.390625px;">From the dusty streets of Puerto Rico to the shiny fertility clinics of Boston, and ending at a non-descript courthouse in Hawaii, this story explores the many ways it is possible to become a parent, and the determination and patience sometimes required to succeed.</span></div>
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