Fertile Heart:: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made

By Debra Doubrava PhD, Nicole Smith-Merry MS and Julia Parker

Fertile Heart: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made celebrates the courageous and empowering journey to single parenting by choice with the assistance of fertility angel helpers. Fertile Heart is modeled after Fertile Love, which was inspired by the author’s own fertility struggles and ultimate experience of how she and her husband (like other couples) made a baby with the help of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Fertile Heart was written as a read aloud love story and family heirloom for a single parent by choice to share with their little one to celebrate and explain how their magical child came to be in the world. The illustrations are gender and race inclusive, and journaling prompts at the end create an opportunity for each parent to add elements specific to their own life journey and path to parenthood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798765241493

Debra Doubrava PhD

The author’s path to motherhood was anything but straightforward. From battling breast cancer at age 33 to getting remarried in her forties with a ticking biological clock, Debbie wondered if she should let go of her fertile dream to have a baby borne of her own body. But her faith was restored when she fell in love and she and her new partner embarked on a journey to make a child through assisted reproductive technology. As a psychotherapist specializing in identity issues, play therapy services, and trauma informed care with diverse humans of all ages and stages of life, Dr. Debbie combines professional insight with her own personal story in this As If Book (www.asifbooks.com). Debra Doubrava PhD LPC RPT-S lives, practices, and teaches gratefully and abundantly ever after in South Central PA. She and her husband proudly parent their oh so spirited furbabies and truly magical daughters.

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