Fertility Books - Page 10

The Baby Solution: Your Essential Resource for Overcoming Infertility

Daniel Kenigsberg, Lauren Hartman

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Practical, frank, and compassionate advice from an infertility specialist.

A diagnosis of infertility can be devastating for the woman or couple who is ready for a baby, but those suffering with infertility should know that there is still hope. Fortunately, there's a helpful, compassionate resource that offers readers just that.

The Baby Solution is a step-by-step, practical guide to overcoming infertility. Reassuring and friendly, this book will give readers an insider's view on getting expert care, providing information about intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilization (IVF), and other standard infertility treatments, as well as the latest state-of-the-art care. It also includes such alternative means of improving fertility as acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. This essential resource gives readers tips to help them financially negotiate a field where the cost of treatment is high and the business concerns of clinics and doctors can sometimes override a patient's best interests. This guide will tell readers how to choose a doctor or a clinic that will give them the best chance of success, how to get the most out of their insurance coverage, and how to keep their relationship intact during treatment. Third-party reproduction options, including sperm and egg donation, surrogacy, and embryo donation, are also discussed.

Healing Gourmet Eat to Boost Fertility (Healing Gourmet)

Healing Gourmet, Victoria Rand, Melissa Stevens Ohlson, Beverly Shaffer

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Eat for health, for healing, for life

Can something as delicious as Sesame Salmon Roulades really help increase your chances for conception? Every day, believe it or not, medical researchers are making surprising discoveries about the link between diet and infertility--and Healing Gourmet is dedicated to bringing the latest scientific breakthroughs into your kitchen.

With this complete nutrition guide, you'll learn how to increase ovulation with all-natural meal plans and healing foods that you can find in your local supermarket. You'll learn healthy ways to alleviate fertility problems caused by Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a common hormone imbalance that causes infertility, as well as insulin resistance, syndrome X, endometriosis, and other conditions. You'll also find essential nutrients that contribute to healthy sperm, and you'll discover a whole arsenal of safe and effective fertility boosters hidden in everyday foods.

With Healing Gourmet, the recipe for good health is simple. Every book in the series includes:

• Foods to manage illness and foster health
• Strategies for smart shopping
• Three weeks of meal plans
• Fifty easy-to-make and delicious recipes

Healing Gourmet®

With a professional team of medical experts, nutritionists, and culinary chefs, Healing Gourmet turns the most up-to-date research into mouthwatering recipes and your kitchen into a healing haven. Visit our website, healinggourmet.com, for the latest updates and more fertility-boosting meal plans!

Childfree After Infertility: Moving From Childlessness to a Joyous Life

Heather Wardell

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Only If You're Looking to Reaffirm Your Childfree Decision 2 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I just could not relate to this author. I'm happy that childfree worked for her, but there is a huge difference between making the decision to live childfree before you exhausted your treatment options and making the decison after coming to the logistical end of treatment (whether it be due to the insurance, finances or probability of success running out...). This book speaks to the former group of decision-makers; people who I would argue are closer to being childless by choice rather than chance.

My husband and I are nearing the end of our fertility treatment options and, in all honesty, are leaning more toward childfree than adoption, but not because we haven't seriously considered the latter. If you have no interest in adoption whatsoever, then you may be able to better relate to this book. If, however, you are struggling between the two, I think you'll find this book a little too one-sided and simplistic to be of much assistance. A better book would be "Sweet Grapes: How to Stop Being Infertile and Start Living Again" by Jean and Michael Carter.

Editorial Review:

There are many books on infertility, and on being childfree. Childfree After Infertility: Moving from Childlessness to a Joyous Life puts the two together, focusing solely on the formerly infertile, and how they have created happy, childfree lives. Including the stories of many who have made this transition, the book shows the infertile man or woman that it is possible to put infertility aside, and choose to live childfree, not childless. The book's upbeat tone leads the reader through what can be a difficult transition with grace and humour.

Infertility can be devastating, affecting all facets of life. Readers of Childfree After Infertility will learn how their infertility has affected their lives, and how choosing to release their infertility and become childfree can open up a vast array of possibilities and opportunities that might never have existed had they remained childless.

Getting Pregnant Naturally: Healthy Choices To Boost Your Chances Of Conceiving Without Fertility Drugs

Winifred Conkling

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You May Not Have Tried Everything! Today, many couples who experience problems getting pregnant look to the miracles of modern science for help. Yet for the more than five million Americans of childbearing age who have failed to conceive within a year or more, the good news is that as many as half go on to get pregnant and have healthy babies. Getting Pregnant Naturally is filled with dozens of little-known tips for increasing the odds of conceiving and offers the essential information any couple should have before they resort to expensive, invasive, high-tech fertility treatments -- • The most common causes of infertility or subfertility in both men and women • How the age factor relates to ability to conceive• Why fertility and infertility can flutuate from month to month• How to recognize and test for the signs that ovulation is taking place• How to change your lovemaking to increase the likelihood of conception • How men and women can increase their their chances of conception through nutritional supplements• Age-old herbal remedies that have been shown to increase fertility• Homeopathic therapies that can work• The mind-body connection:fertile ideas to boost your fertilityAnd Much More, Including:

Resource information on fertility centers,
natural medicine, and adoption

The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact On Love And Relationships

Abraham Morgentaler

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Viagra, the untold stories..... 5 out of 5 stars.
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Dr. Morgentaler, a practicing Urologist and Professor at Harvard University, has written a great book about Viagra that demystifies this wonder drug and in plain English, underscores its value and its pitfalls. Each chapter is devoted to real clinical cases that demonstrate how love, aging, relationships and physical changes can make any man or woman seek the advise and solice of a physician or therapist. Dr. Morgentaler does not dispute the value of Viagra in the right circumstances. Rather, he points out that in many cases, men and women seek the drug but come to understand that, in fact, they need a greater appreciation of their partner, or an understanding of the normal sequelae of aging. Dr. Morgentaler also has chapters on the use of Viagra in Gay relationships and in cases of prostate cancer. A final chapter answers "frequently asked questions" in a most honest and understandable fashion. I recommend this book to any adult, male or female, who is curious about Viagra,and who has questions about sexual function and dysfunction. A terrific read!

Editorial Review:

In The Viagra Myth Dr. Abraham Morgentaler (a practicing urologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School) shows us that while Viagra has proved enormously helpful to many men, it has also uncovered previously ignored aspects of identity and authenticity in sexuality and relationships. Some men, for example, may fear telling their partner they are using Viagra, yet still struggle with the hope of being loved for their true self. Women who discover their partner has resorted to a secret sexual enhancer may complain, "I thought it was me who turned you on . . ." Viagra may improve a man's sexual abilities, but there may also be a profound cost involved.
If you or your partner is using or considering Viagra, or even if you are only wondered what it might be like to have a better sex life, this book is essential reading. It will provide insight and instruction about the reality of quick-fix solutions, sexuality, personal growth, and meaningful relationships.

Sexuality and Fertility after Cancer

Leslie R. Schover

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"Finally! Such a comprehensive resource for survivors has been long overdue." --Michelle Melin, M.P.P., Director of Patient Services Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization

"An excellent, well-researched book that responds to the needs of survivors." --Anna Meadows, M.D. Director, Division of Oncology and Children's Cancer Research Center Children's Hospital of Phildadelphia.

Now as never before cancer survivors are discovering their potential for renewed sexuality, which many may never have thought possible. In this comprehensive new book, the leading authority in the field carefully and reassuringly explains your options and gives you the accurate, up-to-date information you need to take advantage of them. Now you can make the decisions that are best for you based on recent medical advances and the newest perspectives. This unique guide covers:
* The kinds of sexual problems both men and women are likely to face after treatment --and state-of-the-art solutions
* The most effective infertility treatments
* How to assess the risks of pregnancy
* The latest information on body image, low sex drive, performance anxieties, medications, sex aids, and reconstructive surgery
* Special topics such as sex after breast or prostate cancer, and the specific problems facing gays, singles, and survivors of childhood cancers.

A Little Pregnant: Our Memoir of Fertility, Infertility, and a Marriage

Linda Carbone, Ed Decker

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A Little Pregnant: Our Memoir of Fertility, Infertility, and a Marriage 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This is a FABULOUS book for anyone who has been struggling with infertility!! I loved how this book has the male and female perspectives of each step of the journey. I laughed a lot and cried too. I highly recommend this one:)

Love Conquers All 5 out of 5 stars.
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Linda Carbone and Ed Decker have created a masterpiece. An honest account of one of the most intimate experiences of their lives (their struggle with infertility), it is written in alternating chapters (her account, his account)overlapping and independently moving the story forward. Their humanity, humor, heartbreak and ultimate triumph draw the reader in and never let go. I would recommend this book for anyone who believes in the human spirit and its ability to make lemonade out of lemons. You won't be disappointed!!

Editorial Review:

A Little Pregnant is a poignant and refreshingly honest account of a husband and wife struggling over the course of a decade to have a child. Linda Carbone and Ed Decker offer a moving appraisal of their wrenching, confusing, frustrating, and sometimes comic ordeal. She feels ambivalent about having children; he has an urgent need to have them, at all costs. In alternating chapters, husband and wife present their own powerful versions of their descent into medical and marital turmoil -- as well as their story's unexpected happy ending.

Six Steps to Increased Fertility: An Integrated Medical and Mind/Body Program to Promote Conception

Harvard Medical School

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Useless 2 out of 5 stars.
51 of 53 people found this review helpful.

If you had problem with conception for some time, chances are that you already did your 'homework' and read about all possible causes and treatment on the Internet, or discussed it with your doctor. This book is a very general summery of infertility problems, and mainly a big ad for the authors' treatment plan that is available, I assume, in the hospital where they work. I would not recommend this book to anybody - you can definitely find more useful info online, and definitely cheaper!

Editorial Review:

YES, YOU PROBABLY CAN GET PREGNANT
...and the really good news is that most of you can conceive naturally, without expensive high-tech intervention. The six-step mind/body fertility enhancement program from Harvard Medical School could give you the answer.

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Practical Laboratory Andrology

David Mortimer

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This practical manual on sperm analysis presents the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that are used in andrology laboratories to analyze and assess male infertility. Diagnostic areas include: semen analysis and the biochemical, immunological and microbiological examination of human semen and spermatozoa; computer-aided sperm motility analysis; sperm ultrastructure; and assessment of sperm transport through the female tract and sperm fertilizing ability. The clinical relevance of various diagnostic procedures is also discussed. Therapeutic topics include sperm washing techniques, semen cryopreservation, and insemination procedures. The volume also covers safety in the andrology laboratory, technician training, and quality control. The text is extensively illustrated and will be an invaluable resource to all scientists and technicians who diagnose male infertility. It will also be of interest to researchers working in human gamete biology and reproductive physiology. The detailed methods described in the book are relevant to all hospital, commercial, and university laboratories involved in infertility diagnosis and treatment.

Wanting Another Child: Coping With Secondary Infertility (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

Harriet Fishman Simons

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An Excellent Read for Those Coping, or if You Know Someone 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I had no expectations when I opened this book, having read a number of books on infertility. What a pleasant surprise to discover that Ms. Fishman Simons knows the subject of secondary infertility so well and provides in her book just what couples experiencing this very much ignored problem need for guidance. While reading it was emotionally difficult at times, I found many perspectives that matched what I had felt and some insightful comments on how to get past secondary infertility. I highly recommend this book to anyone coping with secondary infertility, certainly as a beginning to "recovery," and to family and friends of the secondary infertile couple.

Editorial Review:

Couples who learn that they suffer from secondary infertility - the inability to concieve or carry a child to term following the birth of one or more children - are ofen surprised when they find themselves caught between two worlds; that of the fertile and infertile. This work provides a resource for those experiencing secondary infertility and the professionals who treat them.