Catawampus: The Fertility Process from a Man's Perspective

Stuart and his wife Julie decided they were ready to have a baby. She went on vitamins and they went on one last vacation because they thought it would be no time at all before she was pregnant. But thats not exactly how things went. For nearly two years they endured grueling fertility treatments beginning with charting temperatures and predicting ovulation on to oral fertility drugs through a laparoscopy a slew of IUIs and multiple IVFs and finally a course of homeopathic remedies. Catawampus tells this tale of the madness and confusion of fertility treatments and all that those treatments entail but this time its Stuart that tells the story. So specimen collecting? Sure. Syringes large and small? Yes. Heartache frustration and anger? Of course but Stuart also shows what else was going on at the time because despite the fact that the fertility process can dominate a couples focus life continues to unfold. As such the book is about a relationship between husband and wife between parent and child about friendship and ultimately about what it means to be a father. Oh yeah its also very funny. And filled with a choice selection of rants about popular culture references to movies ranging from the ridiculous to the mostly-still-ridiculous citations of literary classics and a little bit of Nashville thrown in for fun. In the end its entertaining and poignant writing and a necessary and underrepresented perspective of an important hot-button issue.