Publishing July 7th, 2026 | Hardcover | 24 pages
There are lots of ways to make babies. But no matter how it happens, every family is special because families love each other no matter what.
When a curious little girl named Leah notices a baby at the splash pad, she begins to wonder what she was before she was a baby. Through a gentle, age-appropriate conversation with her parents, Leah learns that while many babies are created from their mommy and daddy’s pieces, her parents needed help from another mommy and daddy—and that makes her story even more full of love.
Pieces of Leah provides a loving introduction to the topic of embryo adoption and alternative family building. Inspired by her own experience with infertility, author Haylee Woodcock wrote this story as a tool to help parents explain to their children born via embryo adoption or other IVF/adoption-related paths how they came to be.
