Inconceivable

Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning

By: Valerie Bauman

Narrated by: Valerie Bauman

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics.

Inconceivable is a window into the unfair legal, financial, and medical entanglements that compel many single women and LGBTQ+ couples to take their fertility into their own hands.

©2024 Valerie Bauman (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

An amazing personal journey to becoming a mother!

Wow, I am in awe of this book and could not stop listening from the moment I started it. This book is real and raw and honest. It was both scary and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your journey.

Personal and Unconventional Journey to Motherhood

Bauman's style of writing is very compelling (think undercover journalist) yet her very personal memoir is somehow beautifully intertwined. She imbeds the stories of many women and men wanting to build or help create a family system with their own gametes. These stories are the stories that are supposed to be untold. Private, personal, sad, happy, surprising, devastating, and beautiful. I laughed, cried, gasped, and was awed by Bauman's journey and the journey of many others she shares. After reading her memoir I noticed it was on Audible and Bauman was the narrator. Why not, I had the credits, and this story was too touching to not hear it read by the author. I'm so glad I got the audible version as well! I was immersed in her journey and felt her excitement, pain, sorrow, determination, and joy through her emotional read. This is a great book. I learned so much, and feel everyone trying to conceive a family unconventionally owes it to themselves to at least take this journey will Bauman to learn all the ins and outs of conceiving when it seems so unconceivable.

Down-to-earth read

Great read-kept me engaged and entertained while providing insights into a relatively unknown world. Highly recommend this read!

A "must read" for single mothers by choice who are TTC!

I really admire the author's vulnerability and strength. Her book is a helpful resource for those of us going through the same journey.
I really like when audio books are read by the author. Valerie speaks clearly and her emotions come through as she tells her story.

Appreciate this book

It’s hard to find books that talk about this topic in a way that feels human. Thank you!