A prayer, fashioned after traditional tekhinot, women’s prayers, for a child
A contemporary poem that addresses “the stain” of blood which, when trying to get pregnant, “becomes a sign of failure, of sadness, of emptiness, of death”
A brief prayer before undergoing in vitro fertilization
Affirmation of wedding blessings when a couple decides to have children
A prayer to be recited by a couple upon deciding to have children
The author suggests adding an unlit candle to the Shabbat candlelabrum each week until the baby is born
Describes the practice of going to a mikveh (ritual bath) as it relates to the desire for conception
A prayer to be read by the partner of a woman being inseminated with donor sperm in the doctor’s office
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