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How to Get Pregnant: The Classic Guide to Overcoming Infertility, Completely Revised and Updated

Sherman J. Silber

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For decades this book has been the most popular resource for couples trying to conceive. Now thoroughly revised and updated to provide cutting edge information on all the very latest treatments the new hardback edition of How To Get Pregnant will be the ultimate guide for prospective parents in the 21st century. One in every five couples is infertile and with more and more people putting off pregnancy until later in life, Dr. Silber's compassionate, informative book is in greater demand than ever. The comprehensive text explains not only the essential facts of getting pregnant but also how to solve once-insurmountable fertility problems with the latest high-tech findings, tests and procedures-including the revolutionary antral follicle count, which allows women to disover how many eggs they have left and may determine whether they have to find a way to preserve their eggs. For all couples determining whether to have a child, this book will be the only resource they will need, addressing all concerns they may have.

The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility

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Review by American Journal of Human Reproduction &Fertility 4 out of 5 stars.
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Biodemography is a sullied concept in anthropology. It ought to be about the biological and evolutionary basis of demographic events that determine Darwinian fitness. Usually it is merely descriptive, and I have come to expect that titles with biodemography in them will disappoint. This book is a nice surprise: it has many pieces that do just what biodemography ought to do.
The strength of the book is that is it a collection of pieces (12 chapters) from different fields in anthropology, biology, epidemiology, psychology, and even sociology that are not obviously related and tempts scholars to read outside their fields. Anthropologists, for example, learn early on that phenotypic plasticity is what humans are about, and it never occurred to me to question the assumption that phenotypic plasticity is a good thing until I read the second chapter of the book, by Hughes, Burleson, and Rodd. Environmentally cued development may have costs not incurred by genes coding for canalized development. For example, there may be costs associated with information acquisition.
Most human reproductive ecology is based on plastic responses to the food supply or energy output, and we ought to be developing models that compare the costs of this kind of response to fixed responses. Valeggia and Ellison in Chapter 5 use Ellison's energy balance model (see Ellison, 2001) to interpret data on the duration of lactational amenorrhea in the Toba of Northern Argentina. Unfortunately, the beauty of Ellison's energy balance model is its weakness. It explains all the data we have or ever will have on ovarian suppression. In this sense it is not a true scientific model since it is impossibe to falsify.
The Toba have breastfeeding patterns similar to the !King Bushmen of Southern Africa. The !King are known for their long lactation periods and low fertility, and after Melvin Konner and Carol Worthman's landmark piece in 1980 establishing the intense lactation patterns of !Kung and suppressed ovarian activity, the 4-year-wide birth intervals of !Kung were attributed to lactational suppression. But the Toba have a surprisingly short period of lactational amerorrhea - half of all lactating Toba women have resumed cycling by 9 months postpartum, illustrating that breastfeeding intensity is not solely responsible for variation in lactational amenorrhea. Since there are no comparative data (Konner and Worthman's data were much less detailed), the piece does not elucidate the role of energetics, but Valeggia and Ellison describe some plausible physiological mechanisms for a regulatory role of food on ovarian activity.
Some variation in the timing of life history events previously attributed to plasticity can now be attributed to genetic variation. In Chapter 9 James Murray and colleagues describe differences in fertility among Honduran men with different alleles at the dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2)/TaqI/site. DRD2/Taq1/A1+ men have earlier age at reproduction and higher fertility than DRD2/Taq1/A1- men. In the past, they argue, the higher fertility of the DRD2/Taq1/A1+ allele was balanced by higher mortality in carriers that today produces excess morbidity. They summarize a large body of literature about genes with similar effects that may be responsible for so-called diseases of modernization (e.g., hypertension).
Like all edited volumes, this book varies in quality. Because the statistical methods and the theoretical content change with each chapter, the book is unlikely to be suitable for standard undergraduate courses. Undergraduates could grasp the conclusions, but not where they came from, and there are too many statistical techniques and too much theory and biology to introduce in a semester. Anderson and Low in Chapter 4, for example, find that the higher fertility of unmarried women disappears when covariates are included. This is an interesting but questionable finding. Many of the covariates (like age at first birth, age at marriage, and schooling) are competing risks. Women who become pregnant young are less likely to be married and receive less schooling, and a different model incorporating interactions among these terms might produce a different answer.
There are many other pieces by prominent scholars on many issues. This book should give readers a lot of new ideas with which to approach their own research problems, including up-to-date literature reviews in fields outside their own fields. It would be a great choice for a journal-club-like course in which students and faculty can hash out the issues and the consequences of better data or different statistical methods.
American Journal of Human Biology (Wiley-Liss), pages 101-102, Volume 16, Number 1 January/February 2004.

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The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility takes an interdisciplinary look at the subjects of fertility and reproduction.
Key topics include:

- anorexia as a reproductive disease with evolutionary origins;
- the evolutionary basis of menarche;
- the familial (genetic) basis of having boys versus girls;
- twin fertility;
- extramarital childbearing.

This book is for advanced level students and researchers who study human reproduction and fertility.

Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Lawyer's Guide to Emerging Law & Science

Charles P. Kindregan

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As more people turn to assisted reproduction, the legal issues surrounding it have become increasingly complex. Beyond representing patients or clinics, numerous legal problems are arising from the technology's application. Disputes in divorce are the most common, but this technology impacts the law in other areas, including personal injury, insurance, criminal law, and estate planning. Drawing from multiple legal sources, this book presents complex information in a direct, balanced and fair manner. Includes glossary, sample forms and checklists, and bibliography.

An Atlas of Human Blastocysts

Lucinda L. Veeck, Nikica Zaninovic

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If you had a dependable method for determining the healthiest and most viable conceptus from a cohort of growing preembryos, replacing more than a single one in order to achieve good pregnancy rates would be moot. Sometime in the not-so-distant future, this may be a reality. Taking a step towards that future, An Atlas of Human Blastocysts vividly illustrates the typical and atypical morphology of mammalian blastocysts. The atlas demonstrates that extended culture of blastocysts is now achieveable in the laboratory and points us toward the day when it will be possible to choose between a number of healthy hatched blastocysts.

Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry

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This collection addresses the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, and political forces that affect reproductive behavior. For their part, anthropologists have only recently begun to apply their characteristic approaches to the study of reproduction. Drawing on new ethnographic and historical research and on a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors to this book indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions.

Fertility Awareness Handbook: The Natural Guide to Avoiding or Achieving Pregnancy

Barbara Kass-Annese, Hal C., M.D. Danzer

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Don't bother with this one 2 out of 5 stars.
44 of 46 people found this review helpful.

A MUCH better book is Toni Weschler's "Taking Charge of your Fertility". "Fertility Awareness Handbook" provides far less useful information. While it gives a general overview of reproduction and fertility signs, it doesn't provide truly useful information on how to use FAM to avoid or achieve pregnancy. I am someone who is trying to achieve pregnancy, and I found this book's single page on "how to get pregnant" a joke. I agree with the previous reviewer, this book basically tells you "you can get pregnant anytime".

Save your money!!!! GO TO THE LIBRARY FOR THIS INFO!! 1 out of 5 stars.
11 of 15 people found this review helpful.

If you truly want to learn about NFP, go to the library. There are TONS of accurate information in many books offered there. This book gave a fraction of the information needed to truly practice NFP, and the small amount of information given was very unclear and confusing. Had I not had prior NFP background, I would have read this book and said "So basically, this book is telling me that there is no safe time of the month, and I can get pregnant at any time."--information that any woman knows anyway. Save your money and go to the library, there is much more information there.

Biomedical and Demographic Determinants of Reproduction (International Studies in Demography)

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This volume surveys the state of knowledge and research on the determinants of human reproduction. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it integrates information from demographic, epidemiological and biological studies of fertility.

Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception

Sarah Franklin

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New Reproductive Technologies, such as in vitro fertilization, have been the subject of intense public discussion and debate worldwide. In addition to difficult ethical, moral, personal and political questions, new technologies of assisted conception also raise novel socio-cultural dilemmas. How are parenthood, kinship and procreation being redefined in the context of new reproductive technologies? Has reproductive choice become part of consumer culture?

Embodied Progress offers a unique perspective on these and other cultural dimensions of assisted conception techniques. Based on ethnographic research in Britain, this study foregrounds the experiences of women and couples who undergo IVF, while also asking how such experiences may be variously understood.

Human Spermatozoa in Assisted Reproduction, Second Edition

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Now in second edition, this massive volume covers every aspect-clinical and scientific-of the use of normal and abnormal sperm in assisted reproduction and assisted fertilization. The book contains 35 chapters by world-class authorities. Their contributions are organized into three parts: basic concepts of spermatology and fertilization, male factor diagnosis, and male factor treatment. Part 4 describes laboratory techniques not covered in their respective chapters.

A Spiritual Path to Overcoming Infertility: Creating Your Miracle Family Now

Matthew Mcquaid

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Award-Winning Finalist in the Women's Health category of the Best Books 2006 National Book Awards!

Nine million couples suffer the shattering effects of infertility. Unable to create the families they so dearly want, they feel isolated, depressed, and blameworthy, and fall prey to despair, which can make conception less likely and ultimately threaten even the strongest marriages.

Confronting infertility head-on, Dr. Matthew McQuaid and his wife, Michelle, grew to understand it as an obstacle that was as much spiritual as it was scientific. Adopting mind/body medical techniques such as meditation and yoga, they developed a state of profound well-being, relaxation, and unwavering faith. Eventually, their devotion was rewarded in the birth of their son Luke. Now, the McQuaids' well-earned formula for success is offered to other couples who hope to overcome infertility and create miracles of their own.

"Plenty of books focus on medical issues: this one focuses on the spirit, from reducing the stress associated with infertility and using mind/body techniques to improve medical outcomes, to undertaking emotional and spiritual changes that can lead to health improvements and fertility. Dr. Matthew McQuaid offers all the keys to emotional health, and connects them to fertility improvement, making it a "must" for any with trouble starting a family." - California Bookwatch

"Regardless of where you are on your journey with infertility, the reduction of stress and the realization that you need emotional care as well as physical care can be a great turning point for many couples. This book is very helpful in all of these respects." - Kim Elise Goldman, About.com