“Family Balancing”: Should We Tinker With Nature?

By Erica Kain

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The response to the news that I’m pregnant with a girl has been joy, as well as laughter: ”Whoa, three girls? Now you have to try for a boy.”
Do I?
After the misdiagnosed miscarriage, the hyperemesis, the bleeding, the leaking, and the general drama associated with this pregnancy, I hadn’t given much thought to another pregnancy. In fact, a tubal ligation began to sound like a viable option to me. Read More