For Those with Empty Arms

In Australia, as in much of the developed world, the average age of first-time mothers is continuing to increase. Alongside this trend, more and more women find themselves confronting the emotionally bumpy and financially burdensome road to conception through Assisted Reproductive Technologies. For Those With Empty Arms is a new book that will speak with eloquence to many women, who carry the burden of repetitive IVF cycles in silence.
 
After receiving the news that in vitro would be their only hope for biological children, award-winning poet Emily Adams had to learn to live in a new world of needles, embarrassing tests, long waiting periods, and expensive doctor’s appointments.
 
In this beautiful and touching book of poems and essays, Emily tells the story of the diagnosis and the chaotic years that followed. Despite the many instances of disappointment, she learns how to continue to hope. Emily Adams weaves a powerful and compassionate story for any woman who is desperately trying to conceive but can’t.



AUTHOR

Emily Harris Adams considers herself a long-expecting mother. She’s seen the frustrating world of infertility: the often humiliating doctor visits, the astonishing price tags for treatments, having to explain why she doesn’t have kids, the shock of finding out a friend is going through the same struggle, waking up with her arms cradling a non-existent baby, and needing to suddenly cancel a round of in vitro for health concerns. Emily is also a poet. She lives in Provo, Utah.
 
For Those with Empty Arms is available from www.exislepublishing.co.nz and wherever good books are sold. RRP $19.99