She looks just like you
Subtitle: a memoir of (nonbiological lesbian) motherhood
By: Amie Klempnauer Miller
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807004692
Description: After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became ... what? Mommy's little helper? A faux dad? As a midwestern, station wagon-driving, stay-at-home mom and as a nonbiological lesbian mother Miller both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere, she wrestled with the anxieties and challenges of first-time parenthood-including neurotic convictions that her child was chronically ill and the muddled confusion of sleeplessness. But unlike most mothers, she experienced pregnancy and birth only vicariously. Unlike biological parents, she had to stand before a judge to adopt her own daughter. And unlike most straight parents, she wondered how to respond when strangers gushed, "I bet Daddy's proud," or "She has your eyes."
Table of contents: title: Babymaking; title: No waiting, womb two; title: Segues; title: Mise en garde; title: Shock and awe; title: Mommy and me; title: Words; title: First floor, Maslow's; title: Flight; title: Shards; title: For better or for worse; title: Anniversary.