[.ca] Family Bound: One Couple's Journey Through Infertility ... (ISBN 0595274293)

What an eye-opener!:
This book truly opened my eyes to the life of infertility and adoption. For the author (Carrie) to let others inside her personal experiences is extremely admirable. It was inspirational to read about a couple's journey to become parents from her own perspective.

This book will speak to many couples:
This book reminds us of the powerful drive of all living things: To reproduce itself. Carrie Ostrea's experience will speak to many couples who experience infertility. They will find their own feelings and frustrations acknowledged in this poignant portrayal of the emotional, physical and sociological effects infertility has on a couple's relationship. Like Beverly Barna's book says, Infertility Sucks and we can see throughout Ostrea's book what miseries she went through. The grieving over something so fundamental as giving birth is painful to read about. But there is a bright light at the end of this tunnel: Adoption. Ostrea's story has a happy ending with good advice on adoption to boot. Gisela Gasper Fitzgerald, author of ADOPTION: An Open, Semi-Open or Closed Practice?

Opened My Eyes:
This amazing journey opened my eyes and mind to all the couples who are dealing with infertility. I've been following their story for a couple of years. Now that I've read the book, I can't wait to share it with all my friends!

Interesting but annoying:
This book was interesting and sucked me in quickly. It's Ostrea's diary that she kept starting from when she and her husband attempted to get pregnant. They went through fertility drugs, IUI, IVF and still could not get pregnant. They then investigated domestic adoption and ended up eventually adopting a boy from Russia. The story was touching, but I really resented her thoughts on Russia - treating it like a big dangerous, third-world country. She did concede that Moscow has some benefits that the outer regions of the country don't have, but I got tired of her attitude. Plus her insistence that they must have a white baby was pretty annoying as well. Also, the book was really poorly edited (if at all), which got annoying to notice all the errors. I'm guessing it was self-published due to the low quality of the editing.

A revealing memoir offering personal insight:
Family Bound: One Couple's Journey Through Infertility And Adoption by Carrie Ostrea is a revealing memoir offering personal insight into the difficulties of grieving due to infertility, of working with the adoption system, of adjusting to a new baby, and so much more. Offering very practical advice accompanied with real-life insights, and presented in a day-by-day journal-style format, Family Bound is recommended as revealing and insightful supplementary reading for anyone considering adoption.