Making Babies
personal IVF stories
Theresa Miller

Around the world 15% of people who want to have a baby are unable to do so. And their struggles with infertiity often lead them to try IVF. But only about a third of this number go home with a baby in their arms.
Making Babies tells 14 personal stories of IVF, taking us inside the world of egg harvesting, blastocyst transferal, and hormone injections. From single mothers, to long-term heterosexual and gay couples, Making Babies tells real life stories ranging from the heartbreaking to the inspirational. These are stories of personal endurance, loss, unwavering dedication and sacrifice and, above all, confirmation of the inexplicable love that stems from the act of becoming a parent — whether through natural means, reproductive technology, surrogacy, or adoption.

Theresa Miller

Theresa Miller has twenty years' experience in the media, starting as a reporter at Channel Nine News in Adelaide, then working for Good Morning Britain, BskyB's 24-hour news channel, The European Business Channel, and CNN’s World Report. Since her return to Sydney, Theresa has freelanced as a reporter, presenter, and producer for Channels Nine, Seven, SBS, and ABC TV. In 2000, Theresa was a media adviser to the Sydney Lord Mayor during the Olympics. Since then she's worked as a media trainer and journalism lecturer, and produced for ABC Radio National's 'Life Matters'. She and her husband Stuart live in Sydney with their IVF daughter, Zoë, and their recently born 'home grown' baby, Sienna.

Reviews

Offering parents a degree of hope, as well as a realistic appraisal of the IVF experience, Making Babies makes for dramatic and compulsive reading - The Age

Published

Australia 2007 (Scribe)