Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is one of the nation’s premier experts on the
future of family life, career timing, and the influence of science
and technology on fertility and pregnancy. The age of motherhood is
on the rise across the developing world, and as a result many women
and couples are becoming increasingly reliant on alternative
choices to create their families. This includes advanced
reproductive technologies like egg freezing, invitro fertilization,
the use of donor eggs, and the option to become a single mother by
choice. As the author of In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected
Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood (Basic Books,
2009) she has influenced and been an inspiration to thousands of
women who are searching for the best ways to balance their desires
for a successful career, a good relationship, and children. Her
articles on the topic have been featured everywhere from the New
York Times to Babble.com. She has been profiled by The Chicago
Tribune for her practical and brave choice to freeze her eggs when
she was thirty-seven; she has appeared on Good Morning America
speaking on the topic, and has been quoted on the front page of the
New York Times.
In her writing and speaking, she gives a personal face and offers
life strategies to the most relevant social trends that intimately
affect women’s lives. Her writing has appeared in The New York
Times, New York, O magazine, Self, Outside, Wired, and her essay
“The Multi-tasking Man,” appeared in What Makes A Man: 21 Writers
Imagine the Future, edited by Rebecca Walker (Riverhead Books,
2005). She graduated with distinction in English literature from
Kenyon College, and has a Masters in Journalism from the Graduate
School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
“A talented writer and fierce feminist….Rachel [is] a woman who
dares to be different.” – Gail Sheehy, author of Daring:My
Passages, A Memoir.
“This book offers extraordinary, fresh, and well-synthesized
information that will be useful to doctors, therapists, women, and
couples who are striving to understand the complex worlds of
fertility and relationships. Its author is thoughtful, honest,
compassionate, and funny. She reminded me of my daughter and her
friends, all those Ophelias who are now in their thirties and
struggling with the stormy seas of motherhood, commitment, and
work.”
— Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
“Ms. Lehmann-Haupt reminds women that sometimes baby makes two, not
three, and that in either case, they won’t be going at it alone.”
–The New York Times
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