by Suzy Becker
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This electronic edition published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © 2013 by Suzy Becker
Excerpt from “Natural Resources,” copyright © 2002 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., from The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950–2001 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Becker, Suzy.
One good egg : a memoir / Suzy Becker.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ePub ISBN 978-1-60819-327-1
1. Becker, Suzy. 2. Infertility, Female—Patients—United States—Biography. 3. Mothers—United States—Biography. 4. Fertilization in vitro, Human—Popular works. I. Title.
RG135.B43 2013
618.1’780092—dc23
[B]
2012043595
First U.S. edition 2013
Electronic edition published in July 2013
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Table of Contents
Title page
Dedication page
Table of Contents
What Took Me So Long (The Condensed Version)
Step Two
I Can, He Can, We Will
As You Wish, Jellyfish
The Best Laid Plans
A Bad Chapter
If at First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth You Don’t Succeed
Instant Convert
A Little Bit Pregnant
In A Parallel Universe
Tour de Fetus
It’s A Boy!
M’eternity
The Home Stretch
A Room with a View
Postpartum Impressions
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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