Description
Book SynopsisThis friendly guide combines professional and personal advice on every aspect of fertility and infertility.
Trade Review"a complete guide to getting pregnant" (
Walsall Chronicle, Thursday 14th June 2007)
"…combines the views of both patients and professionals, in order to give clear and concise advice." (Ledbury Reporter, Friday 15th June 2007)
“The book combines their professional and patient perspectives to give expert, clear and concise advice to anybody planning a baby.” (Hereford Journal, Wednesday 20th June 2007)
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended 5
Chapter 1: In the Beginning 7
Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps 21
Part II: Planning a Pregnancy 43
Chapter 3: We’re Trying! We’re Trying! (to Get Pregnant) 45
Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP 71
Chapter 5: Great Expectations But: Early Pregnancy Loss 81
Part III: Tests and Investigations 95
Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist 97
Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 .107
Chapter 8: It’s a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal Sperm Problems 133
Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions 145
Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinics and Funding Treatment 147
Chapter 10: All The ‘I’s: Introducing IUI, IVF, and ICSI 165
Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) 177
Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF 189
Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm! 207
Chapter 14: ‘Babies on Ice’: Egg Freezing and Fertility Treatment 211
Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg Donor Treatments 219
Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab 227
Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You Can Do 241
Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Wait after Embryo Transfer 243
Chapter 18: What’s in Your Freezer? Frozen Embryo Transfers 261
Chapter 19: If at First You Don’t Succeed: Trying IVF More than Once 269
Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options for Non-Traditional Families 281
Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me and Baby Make Four! 283
Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and Single Mums 295
Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices 305
Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas 317
Part VII: The Part of Tens 333
Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep You Sane!) 335
Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medications and Where to Find Them 339
Index 345
