Gay impregnated

Nothing seemed more significant than that. I wanted my child, if possible, to get to know where they came from and to have it be from a person I knew and loved.

Maybe my kid would one day ace the LSATs? . I ask whether it’s difficult for his friend to be into mpreg while pursuing such a typically masculine profession. He looked on with jealousy at women waddling onto buses with ankles puffy and pink from the excessive weight. “These last blood tests didn’t come out as we’d expected.”

This came as a shock.

If earlier generations had fought for the right to choose, it seemed like I should use it. I would need to find another donor, preferably an anonymous one from our local sperm bank ― someone my child would likely never meet. Her novel “Failing the Trapeze” won the Nilsen award, and other work has recently appeared in The Rumpus, Creative Nonfiction, and New Orleans Review.

Some prefer a C-section; others like the idea of giving birth to eggs.”

Would he accept pain relief like an epidural? My dad kept silent, but my mum said, ‘It’s not right. “Indemnify the clinic — accept all risk.”

As it turned out, though, there wasn’t any risk. Such quiet intimacy, such relief — until more devastating news hit.

Did I, for instance, want my child to have musical talent? In the empty cafe he often scribbles out his stories: servants forced to become pregnant by amphibian kings who need an heir to the throne; a man named Quinn carrying two different men’s babies at the same time after forgetting to take his contraceptive pill; a brutish ex-Marine becoming kinder when he finds out he’s going to become a father.

Prolly get more slip-on shoes cause bending may be difficult”). On the Instagram account of Trystan Reese, a trans man from Portland who gave birth to baby boy named Leo, he clutches his son as his smooth face yawns like a little seal pup. “What if they’re right and this was a terrible idea?” And what if I had taken my family on a journey that would end in sadness?

Or the baby?”

“Not in IVF,” she confirmed, which, due to my age, had already been decided on as my path to pregnancy.