Fertility Books - Page 12

Increase Fertility and Achieve Conception the Natural Way: Boost your Chances of Getting Pregnant and Prepare for a Successful Birth and a Healthy Baby ... Therapies, Diet and Simple Exercise regimes

Anne Charlish

Amazon Price: $14.39 List Price: $15.99 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Southwater Amazon Marketplace: 21 new & used starting at $3.92

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Biographies & Memoirs -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Personal Health -> Women's Health -> Pregnancy & Childbirth -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Exercise & Fitness -> Pregnancy

Editorial Review:

The perfect approach for the modern parent to be : shows how making the right kinds of lifestyle and diet decisions can help optimize your chances of conceiving and having a healthly pregnacy.

Love & Infertility: Survival Strategies for Balancing Infertility, Marriage and Life

Kristen Magnacca

Amazon Price: $21.95 List Price: $21.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: LifeLine Press Amazon Marketplace: 30 new & used starting at $3.95

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Personal Health -> Women's Health -> Pregnancy & Childbirth -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Relationships -> Marriage
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> General

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Read it! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Kristen is both funny and wise. She's been there, both professionally and personally, and she's learned from it. Through anectodes and practical tips, she shares her victories and lets us, too, learn from her failures. Her book is an honest, practical and easy to read compilation of very personal anecdotes and well-researched strategies for finding balance during a very trying time. Read it-- you'll be glad she is holding your hand on the rocky journey to parenthood!

A GREAT BOOK!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book is a must read, she talks about struggles couples face when going throw infertility and ways to gain control back, This book makes you feel like your not alone, other couples face the same obstacles as you do!

She lets you into her home and heart by sharing stories of her infertility experience and what steps her and her husband took to solve their own problems. I felt like she was speaking to me through her book like a friend. she's honest, down to earth, funny, practical and educated. She has wonderful tips and techniques that are very helpful in dealing with you husband your family and your life. It gave me a new prepective and new hope, I would reccommend this book to everyone.

Editorial Review:

In Positive Conceptions, Kristen Magnacca offers her firsthand experience of infertility--the heartbreak, depression and miscommunication--and how she and her husband, Mark finally devised the much needed life-saving strategy that led them to achieving pregnancy.

Guide Me Through This Barren Land

Vicki Caswell

Amazon Price: $15.19 List Price: $18.99 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Pleasant Word-A Division of WinePress Publishing Amazon Marketplace: 19 new & used starting at $11.57

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Religion & Spirituality -> General
Subjects -> Religion & Spirituality -> Spirituality -> Devotionals
Subjects -> Parenting & Families -> Fertility

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Seek Hope and Empowerment Elsewhere 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I don't think this book was written for women going through fertility treatment, but more for those who have reached the point of ending their pursuit to have a biological child. I didn't find it useful at all...it was actually depressing. It's like having a pity party with someone who has the same problem as you and misery loving company. I was hoping for uplifting devotions that bring hope. Instead it is an intimate glimpse into this woman's pain and struggles with infertility. If you are looking to "identify" with someone who is grieving this book may be helpful, but if you are looking to move beyond the grief I would not recommend this book. Two books I recommend are Hannah's Hope by Jennifer Saake Hannah's Hope: Seeking God's Heart In The Midst Of Infertilityand Inconceivable by Julia Indichova if you are seeking hope.Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and StatisticsIf you are looking to be empowered through your journey I highly recommend I Am More Than My Infertility by Marina Lombardo and Linda J. Parker.I Am More Than My Infertility

Editorial Review:

A unique devotional that addresses the questions infertile couples ask on a personal and spiritual level. Readers will come away each day feeling that more of their burden has been lifted.

Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social, Emotional & Ethical Considerations

Susan Cooper, Ellen Sarasohn Glazer

List Price: $15.00 By: Perspectives Press (IN) Amazon Marketplace: 31 new & used starting at $0.44

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Personal Health -> Women's Health -> Pregnancy & Childbirth -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Disorders & Diseases -> Genetic

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Don't start infertility treatment until you read this! 5 out of 5 stars.
27 of 27 people found this review helpful.

I can't believe that anyone let me start the process of infertility treatment (beyond the clomid stage) without telling me to read this. I found it on my own when having to decide whether my only chance to have a child, egg donation, was right for my husband and myself. I only WISH someone had told me about it sooner. It would have helped me think about all of "this" in a not so crazy way. It's technical, but, those of us who go through infertility procedures know more about the getting pregnant process than most books and online souces give us credit for. These authors treat us like intelligent human beings.

This is a wise book ! 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 15 people found this review helpful.

As an infertility specialist, I'd heartily recommend this book to all infertile couples - and their doctors as well. The forte of this book is the superb way in which emotional issues have been discussed.

I could have lost my mind several times without this book 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 15 people found this review helpful.

This compassionately written book has provided a constant reference and framework within which to think during the hugely emotional period of infertility. It has managed to normalise to some extent the weird world in which readers of this book dwell. It has contributed largely to my change of views on the right of the child to know its biological history. I would recommend it as essential reading for anyone going into third party parenting.

Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

Elaine T. May

Amazon Price: $14.95 List Price: $14.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Harvard University Press Amazon Marketplace: 25 new & used starting at $0.50

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> History -> Americas -> United States -> General
Subjects -> Nonfiction -> Social Sciences -> General
Subjects -> Nonfiction -> Social Sciences -> Sociology -> General

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Suitable for teething 3 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Elaine Tyler May's "Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness" fills an important gap in American social history. Through the use of myriad sources--largely secondary sources but also a collection of more than 500 letters sent to the author by voluntarily and involuntarily childless people--May concludes that the issue of reproduction and the social, economic, and political responses to it changed over time. The author decided to explore the topic after witnessing the public spectacle of the "Baby M" case, in which a surrogate mother hired by an infertile couple to bear their child chose to keep the baby instead of relinquishing custody as required by prior arrangement. Media reports on the case presented surrogate motherhood as a recent phenomenon, a claim May found to be erroneous upon further investigation. The press also presented infertility as a recently discovered problem, another claim the author easily refuted. It was how the media framed the Baby M case that interested the author the most, namely how public and private life in America interacts regarding the issue of childbearing. Reproduction as a private activity and its importance, or perceived importance, in the public sphere forms a central component of the book's structural framework.

Beginning in colonial times, reproduction and the public sphere were inseparable. The economic importance of children to the family, and the family as a pillar of the larger society, led to great social pressure on women to bear as many children as possible. The overtly religious atmosphere of the time labeled the childless sinful. May points out that many of the women accused of witchcraft either had no children or less than the customary number. With the creation of the American nation and the subsequent expansion to the shores of the Pacific, childbearing became an important tenet of the Manifest Destiny ideology. Male settlers broke the soil and built civilization; women populated it with children. Simultaneously, society began associating children with familial happiness. No less a figure than George Washington waxed optimistic about the importance of the "connubial life" in which children figured prominently. Another shift occurred when massive immigration into the country during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century fundamentally challenged the prior conceptions of childbirth. Descendents of the original Anglo-Saxon colonists began issuing dire warnings about "race suicide" as white childlessness increased. The emergence of eugenics was a direct result of the social strains caused by the immigration of "unfit" races. The fear of alien peoples also inspired a great concern about who should or should not have the right to bear children. Sterilization became the answer.

Starting in the post-World War II years and continuing for some time after, laws appeared on the books allowing physicians to sterilize some men and a large number of women deemed "feebleminded" or mentally unfit. The sterilization efforts eventually zeroed in most heavily on the poor and minority groups. Despite the flurry of public activity to stimulate the "right" sorts of childbearing, many women proved amazingly resistant to these pleas. A growing number passed up the opportunity to have children in favor of other pursuits. Public concern with all things children soared during the Baby Boom, when a huge increase in the number of methods and treatments to cure infertility took place in a country obsessed with equating children with happiness, success, and domestic security. After the tumult of the 1960s, and accelerating in the 1970s and beyond, voluntary childlessness not only increased but also gained a measure of acceptance even as the infertile sought even more intricate and expensive medical procedures in an effort to cure their problem.

May's study is at its best when examining the problems of childlessness from the colonial era to the 1960s. In these chapters, she strongly ties the issue of barrenness to historical cause and effect. She cites, for example, films, statements made by noted public figures such as J. Edgar Hoover, and numerous magazine articles published during the 1950s to make a strong argument for the centrality of reproduction in American society during that time. There is such overwhelming evidence in support of childbearing in the post war years that it is not difficult at all to imagine the intense pressure placed on those individuals and couples unfortunate enough to suffer from infertility. May allows us to see how damaging the absence of children could be to a couple. A man applying for work in the 1950s and early 1960s could miss out on numerous job opportunities if he and his wife did not have children because employers thought such people were irresponsible or untrustworthy. Workers without children continue to suffer in the office and factory today, as employers still tend to pay employees with children higher wages.

"Barren in the Promised Land" falters once it moves beyond the 1970s. After briefly discussing the reemergence of a new pronatalist movement in the 1980s, May resorts to a laundry list of the pros and cons of voluntary and involuntary childlessness culled from her letters. Unfortunately, the reader never gets a sense of how the comments in these letters tie into the larger framework of American society. Where is the examination of institutional response to the issue of childbearing after the 1970s? More specifically, how did the childlessness issue shape the larger social, economic, and political landscape in the late 1980s and after? In the introduction to her book, May explains that the Baby M case inspired her to write this study of childlessness. Strangely, the author mentions the case once or twice and then never refers to it again. A chapter devoted solely to this incident might have shed further light on the thorny issue of public versus private spheres as they relate to reproduction, thus giving the study additional weight. Moreover, it is an excellent example with which to specifically examine the convoluted situation that childlessness became in the 1980s and 1990s.

Editorial Review:

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, from the association of barrenness with sin in colonial times, to the creation of laws for compulsory sterilization in the early twentieth century, from the baby craze of the 1950s, to the rise in voluntary childlessness in the 1990s, to the increasing reliance on startling reproductive technologies today, Elaine Tyler May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

Handbook of the Laboratory Diagnosis and Treatment of Infertility

Brooks A. Keel, Bobby W. Webster

Amazon Price: $157.95 List Price: $157.95 In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. By: CRC-Press Amazon Marketplace: 15 new & used starting at $4.81

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Medicine -> General
Subjects -> Medicine -> Reproductive & Sexual -> Medicine & Technology
Subjects -> Medicine -> Specialties -> Obstetrics & Gynecology

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This is a collection of al that is known to man about impotence and its causes, treatments and symptoms. As a way to measure all the knowledge of the modern world this book is a great tool for those wanting to know everything that is known about impotence. [...]

Editorial Review:

This book provides comprehensive, detailed, and step-by-step descriptions of materials and methods currently used in laboratory procedures within the infertility clinic. It addresses the numerous highly sophisticated procedures resulting from research in the area of laboratory diagnosis and treatment of infertility. Among those procedures covered are:

The Fertility Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know (Fertility Sourcebook)

M. Sara Rosenthal, Masood Khatamee

List Price: $17.00 By: Contemporary Books Amazon Marketplace: 37 new & used starting at $0.01

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Disorders & Diseases -> Physical Impairments
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Sex
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> General

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This book is practical and easy to understand 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book is a practical resource. I found it easy to understand and quite comprehensive. I found it refreshingly honest and straightforward and feel it better prepared me for the technological road that i was heading down. Sometimes we can get lost in our treatment and i feel that having this book as a resource allowed me to always know where i was in the various stages of testing and gave me a glimpse of what was ahead.

Baby Steps: A Bloke's-Eye View of IVF

Jason Davis

Amazon Price: $13.22 List Price: $16.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Allen & Unwin Amazon Marketplace: 24 new & used starting at $10.15

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Parenting & Families -> Family Health
Subjects -> Parenting & Families -> Family Relationships -> Fatherhood
Subjects -> Parenting & Families -> Parenting -> General

Editorial Review:

Written from the male perspective, this unique and heart-warming guide chronicles one couple’s struggle to get pregnant and their eventual success with In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This first-hand account offers insights into what a man will encounter during IVF treatment and advice for dealing with the frustrations and fears that come with this difficult process. With humor and frankness, the author shares his and his wife’s tumultuous and rewarding adventures with IVF that ended with the long-awaited arrival of a baby.

Peyronie's Disease: A Guide to Clinical Management (Current Clinical Urology)

Amazon Price: $133.52 List Price: $145.00 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Humana Press Amazon Marketplace: 25 new & used starting at $115.78

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Medicine -> General
Subjects -> Medicine -> Internal Medicine -> Urology
Subjects -> Medicine -> Specialties -> Surgery -> General

Editorial Review:

Previously considered rare, Peyronie's disease affects nearly 10% of adult men. Recent advances in wound-healing disorders have substantially increased the understanding of Peyronie's disease and its pathophysiology. In Peyronie's Disease: A Guide to Clinical Management, international authorities review the current nonsurgical and surgical therapeutic options for dealing with this fibrotic disorder. A variety of state-of-the-art research techniques is discussed, including tissue analysis, cell culture of fibroblasts derived from Peyronie's plaques, and animal models that attempt to mimic the in vivo process of tunica albuginea fibrosis while also providing an opportunity for manipulation with novel therapeutic techniques.

Although there is no cure for Peyronie's diseases, this text discusses treatments that may result in physical improvement or help to stabilize the scarring process. For those with a more advanced disease, surgical options to correct the deformity in an effort to make the patients functional again are reviewed. Also discussed are the many misconceptions about Peyronie's disease, so that a practicing physician will be able to diagnose, treat, or refer the patient more appropriately. An accompanying DVD reviews the most frequently performed operations, with tips on patient selection and surgical techniques for correction of Peyronie's disease.

As the first medical text on the subject, Peyronie's Disease: A Guide to Clinical Management provides an up-to-date summary of the etiology, natural history, and pathophysiology of this disease as well as presents a review of the available medical and surgical treatment options.

Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story

Matthew Miller

Amazon Price: $11.66 List Price: $14.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: HCI Amazon Marketplace: 22 new & used starting at $6.89

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Biographies & Memoirs -> General
Subjects -> Biographies & Memoirs -> Specific Groups -> Special Needs
Subjects -> Biographies & Memoirs -> Memoirs

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

A romantic, comedic, and heart-wrenching memoir from a want-to-be-dad turned syndicated blogger

Constance got her period for the tenth month in a row, and I stood in the bathroom having never felt like less of a man in my entire life. 'I think it's time,' I said. 'We should buy an over-the-counter sperm test so I can know it's my fault already.' One trip to the pharmacy, two home-fertility tests, and four days later, I officially had a low sperm count, and our inability to conceive finally attached itself to the word we had avoided uttering in ten months of unsuccessful sex. We were infertile, and it was, indeed, my fault.'

. . . And so Miller and his wife join the ranks of the 6.1 Americans who have issues with infertility.

One of a man's most prized prerogatives is the ability to produce a child. But what happens when that ability is challenged? Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew M.F. Miller came across that dilemma when he and his wife Constance's plans to have a child were thwarted by fertility problems. Miller's solution was not to mope, but to reach out to other 6.1 million couples in America who encounter the same situation. Maybe Baby is a romantic comedy--a book about love, inappropriate moments at the urologist's office, reproductive clinics, survival, and (hopefully one day) triumph--all through the eyes of a man. It is about the intense love and connection that adheres to any flavor of family unit, biological or otherwise.

Maybe Baby is a book that offers women comfort and insight on what their partners are thinking and going through, while encouraging men who are experiencing infertility--whether it is their medical problem or their wives'--with humor, honesty, and practicality.