In Her Own Sweet Time: Egg Freezing and the New Frontiers of Family

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This trailblazing memoir examines the trialsand modern scientific solutionsof balancing career and love with the realities of reproductive timing. Women are making massive strides in gender equality, edging out men as the new majority in the workforce. But, because of their brief window for childbearing, this also means a drastically shifting paradigm for motherhood and family planning.

In this 2nd edition, Lehmann-Haupt has updated the inspiring, honest account of her own efforts to reconcile modern love and modern life with the latest medical research. In Her Own Sweet Timewill resonate with a generation of young women who want it allcareer, family, and the perfect partnerbut havent yet figured out how it all fits together. Join Lehmann-Haupt as she interviews women and travels the world to explore and understand the new frontiers of family.

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A talented writer and fierce feminist.Rachel [is] a woman who dares to be different. Gail Sheehy, author of Daring:My Passages, A Memoir.
This book offers extraordinary, fresh, and well-synthesized information that will be useful to doctors, therapists, women, and couples who are striving to understand the complex worlds of fertility and relationships. Its author is thoughtful, honest, compassionate, and funny. She reminded me of my daughter and her friends, all those Ophelias who are now in their thirties and struggling with the stormy seas of motherhood, commitment, and work. Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
Ms. Lehmann-Haupt reminds women that sometimes baby makes two, not three, and that in either case, they wont be going at it alone. The New York Times

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Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is one of the nations premier experts on the future of family life, career timing, and the influence of science and technology on fertility and pregnancy. The age of motherhood is on the rise across the developing world, and as a result many women and couples are becoming increasingly reliant on alternative choices to create their families. This includes advanced reproductive technologies like egg freezing, invitro fertilization, the use of donor eggs, and the option to become a single mother by choice. As the author of In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood (Basic Books, 2009) she has influenced and been an inspiration to thousands of women who are searching for the best ways to balance their desires for a successful career, a good relationship, and children. Her articles on the topic have been featured everywhere from the New York Times to Babble.com. She has been profiled by The Chicago Tribune for her practical and brave choice to freeze her eggs when she was thirty-seven; she has appeared on Good Morning America speaking on the topic, and has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times. In her writing and speaking, she gives a personal face and offers life strategies to the most relevant social trends that intimately affect womens lives. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York, O magazine, Self, Outside, Wired, and her essay The Multi-tasking Man, appeared in What Makes A Man: 21 Writers Imagine the Future, edited by Rebecca Walker (Riverhead Books, 2005). She graduated with distinction in English literature from Kenyon College, and has a Masters in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.