false 56883 3 <div><div><i>Waiting for Daisy</i> is about loss, love, anger and redemption. It&#8217;s about doing all the things you swore you&#8217;d never do to get something you hadn&#8217;t even been sure you wanted. It&#8217;s about being a woman in a confusing, contradictory time. It&#8217;s about testing the limits of a loving marriage. And it&#8217;s about trying (and trying and trying) to have a baby. <br>Orenstein&#8217;s story begins when she tells her new husband that she&#8217;s not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after she&#8217;s done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal, from &#8220;fertility sex&#8221; to escalating infertility treatments to New Age remedies to forays into international adoption. Her saga unfolds just as professional women are warned by the media to heed the ticking of their biological clocks, and just as fertility clinics have become a boom industry, with over two million women a year seeking them out. Buffeted by one jaw-dropping obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual in America and Asia, along the way visiting an old flame who&#8217;s now the father of fifteen, and discovering in Japan a ritual of surprising solace. All the while she tries to hold onto a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures and disappointments. <i>Waiting for Daisy</i> is an honest, wryly funny report from the front, an intimate page-turner that illuminates the ambivalence, obsession, and sacrifice that characterize so many modern women&#8217;s lives.</div></div> 2188234 6 2 2007 Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Rom total:376|5:52|4:150|3:132|2:36|1:6| 376 1334 532 102 4 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 08 19:15:33 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 21 22:01:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Jun 11 19:03:21 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 03:18:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 19:03:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Nov 30 20:50:04 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 20:50:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 19:14:36 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 19:31:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 15:01:03 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 12:02:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:42:50 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:42:50 -0800 2009 It was Peggy Orenstein's husband, documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki, who encouraged her to write Waiting for Daisy__on one condition: she had to be brutally honest. "I couldn't let myself off the hook or make myself look better than I was or make it all OK," she admits. Reviewers praise...

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