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As Featured In

Spread The Jelly: Searching For Our “Baby Mama” (September 2025)

Lilith Magazine: Why I Wrote “The Mother Code” (August 2025)

Daily Skimm:
A New, Gendered Fertility Wealth Gap Grows (July 2025)

WBUR: There are so many ways to make a family (July 2025)

Literary Hub:
The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir (July 2025)

Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Daily: The popularization of egg freezing has created a new ‘fertility wealth gap’ (July 2025)

Gloria: What I Learned About Using Donor Eggs (July 2025)

NPR: Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year (June 2025), Book of The Day (May 2025)

Fair Play Policy Institute: Are Mothers "Allowed" To Be Creative? (May 2025)

The Wall Street Journal: Freezing, Storing and Thawing My Eggs Cost Me $33,179. I Still Didn’t End Up With a Baby. (May 2025)

Romper: My Powerful, Impossible Wish For My Baby To Look Just Like Me (May 2025)

The Guardian: How sure was I that I wanted a baby? About 55% certain (May 2025)

Oprah Daily: How My Mother's Mental Illness Altered My Path to Parenthood (May 2025)

Hadassah Magazine: Books on Motherhood in All Its Permutations (May 2025)

TIME: You Don’t Have to Be Certain You Want Kids to Have Them (May 2025)

The New York Times: Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket (July 2019)

Podcasts

On the fence about motherhood? A new memoir explores why that may be the norm

How to Financially Prepare for IVF:
What No One Tells You

Cracking ‘The Mother Code’ with
author Ruthie Ackerman

Paying Attention to Our Deepest Desires and Illuminating What We Need to featuring Ruthie Ackerman

Affording Parenthood: Exploring the True Cost of Raising Children

What is enoughness?

The Mother Code with Ruthie Ackerman

Losing the Book Deal, but Finding the Story with Ruthie Ackerman

What If You’re Not Sure
You Want Kids?

The Mother Code, Mother Wound, Motherhood Ambivalence, and Navigating Motherhood with Author, Ruthie Ackerman

The Power of Owning Your Story with Ruthie Ackerman

Ruthie Ackerman on The Mother Code

Rewriting the Mother Code: Ruthie Ackerman on Her Journey from Childfree to Choosing Motherhood with Help from a Donor Egg

Motherhood, Menopause & Mental Health: Ruthie Ackerman on Life After COVID

What If You’re Not Sure? An Honest Take on Career, Identity + Motherhood with Ruthie Ackerman

The Myth of The Bad Mother, with Ruthie Ackerman

Connect: ruthie@ruthieackerman.net

Send all publicity inquiries to:
Peter Dyer, pdyer@penguinrandomhouse.com

Send all book marketing inquiries to:
Ayelet Durantt, adurantt@penguinrandomhouse.com