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#	Title	Hits	Rating
21	Experiencing Infertility : An Essential Resource	1147	0.00
	One of every six couples in America is experiencing infertility, a devastating crisis that affects men and women individually and as a couple. This comforting and informative book addresses the medical, financial, and emotional issues that couples must work through while resolving their infertility. Written in a question-and-answer format, this sympathetic book offers practical advice on how to contend with the emotional ups and downs of infertility-from learning how to communicate feelings more effectively to coping with the losses of failed treatments or miscarriages. Warm and practical, the book is divided into twelve chapters, grouped according to the four stages involved in resolving infertility: crisis, acceptance, resolution and epilogue. Addressing the crisis phase are chapters on communicating effectively in a crisis, viewing infertility through the eyes of a parent, coping with family and friends, dealing with stresses at work while going through medical treatment, dealing with the medical establishment, and working through loss. For the stages of acceptance and resolution the authors offer chapters on deepening one's faith, knowing when to stop medical treatment, and practical advice for couples deciding to live child-free or considering adoption. An extensive section at the end addresses issues and concerns of professionals dealing with infertility patients. In addition, there are self-help exercises and a guide to resources. Originally titled What to Expect When You're Experiencing Infertility in hardcover.
22	The Complete Fertility Organizer : A Guidebook and Record-Keeper for Women	1806	0.00
	If you are one of the millions of women facing the challenges of infertility, you know that gathering and keeping track of all of the information involved can be difficult. This book, the first of its kind, helps you establish a solid organizational framework for working through the entire infertility evaluation and treatment process. It provides you with a comprehensive record-keeping resource while you are seeking safe and effective pregnancy. With its easy-to-customize "personal conception plan," The Complete Fertility Organizer lets you organize and maintain control of all of the information involved. You will be able to easily track essential vital data such as fertility charts, procedures, medication records, test results, insurance, and physician information. If you become pregnant, you will be able to record information related to the prevention of miscarriage and premature labor, and use the tracking tools to help promote a healthy pregnancy. Whether you are just suspecting that you may have an obstacle to becoming pregnant or youre already undergoing extensive infertility treatments, The Complete Fertility Organizer delivers indispensable support and guidance.
23	How to Get Pregnant : With the New Technology	1565	0.00
	The bestselling author of "How to Get Pregnant" returns with the most recent developments on this vital topic, including information on ovarian tissue freezing, MESA, TESE, and ICSI procedures, vasectomy and tubal ligation reversal, and more.
24	The Couple's Guide to Fertility: Updated with the Newest Scientific Techniques to Help You Have a Baby	1287	0.00
	As many as one in six American couples of child-bearing age has trouble conceiving, despite the fact that medical advances in the field of fertility have never been so numerous. A trusted handbook now in its third edition, The Couple's Guide to Fertility culls all of today's state-of-the-art options into one compassionate, thorough source. The only fertility book written by a world-class urologist and a leading OB/GYN, along with a professional writer who has experienced infertility himself, The Couple's Guide to Fertility is uniquely geared to advise both male and female readers on topics ranging from hormone therapies to surgical treatments, including in vitro fertilization, as well as options such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, and the use of egg and sperm donors. An extensive listing of fertility specialists and clinics coast to coast helps readers participate fully in their own care. Complementing the cutting-edge science, true first-person accounts from a variety of scenarios provide comforting testaments and gentle emotional support from the patients' perspective. A crucial handbook for anyone struggling to conceive, this new edition of The Couple's Guide to Fertility contains the answers that millions of potential parents need and want.
25	How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient : Your Guide to Getting the Best Possible Medical Help to Have a Baby	1812	0.00
	Infertility affects as many as one in five American couples -- but to the couple trying to have a baby, infertility is a deeply personal, individual matter. The infertile couple will have no trouble finding books that describe in dry medical jargon what treatments are available and how they work. How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient is the first book to speak to the very real emotional and practical aspects of infertility treatment today, telling what treatment feels like from the patients point of view. This is the book that will help the couple to decide which course of action is best for them.Peggy Robin interviewed more than one hundred infertility patients for this book, and you will benefit from their trials and errors, as well as their successes.How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient explains:How to go from infertility diagnosis to effective treatment as quickly as possibleHow different treatment regimens might affect your general health and life-styleHow to find insurance that will pay for your fertility careWhich tests are crucial and which can be avoidedWhen to switch doctorsWhat options are available for nontraditional couples: unmarried partners, gays and lesbians, those who face religious strictures, and others How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient may be the most valuable book on infertility you can buy.
26	Conceptions & Misconceptions : A Guide Through the Maze of in Vitro Fertilization & Other Assisted Reproduction Techniques	1457	1.00
	People struggling with decisions about assisted fertility finally have a road map in Arthur Wisot and David Meldrum's informational and compassionate book, Conceptions and Misconceptions: A Guide Through the Maze of In Vitro Fertilization and other Assisted Reproduction Techniques. Wisot and Meldrum give readers the right questions to ask and the means to interpret the answers. The compassionate tone may have been gained through personal experience (coauthor Wisot and his wife Claudia have quadruplets, achieved through ovulation-inducing drug therapy in the early '70s) as well as the two doctors' years of successfully helping infertile couples have babies. <br><br>Conceptions and Misconceptions includes a detailed review of the reproductive cycle of both female and male, discussion of the causes of infertility, and an explanation of reproductive testing, treatments, and techniques. It also discusses the high risks associated with both in vitro pregnancy and multiple births, and addresses the future of assisted reproduction. This book is not light reading, yet it's exactly what the doctor ordered for those with questions about assisted reproduction. Rarely is hard-core science successfully explained in a clear, friendly, informational tone. It's been done in Conceptions and Misconceptions.
27	High-Tech Conception: A Comprehensive Handbook for Consumers	1246	0.00
	Five million Americans want children but cannot conceive. One million couples seek infertility treatment every year, almost always without prior knowledge of the physical, emotional, and financial costs of high-tech conception (as a rule it is not covered by insurance), and without any way to judge the hard-sell come-ons of what is now a $2-billion, for-profit, unregulated industry that preys on their desperate hopes by promising outcomes that are all too rarely successful. This authoritative, lucid, balanced, and forthright book describes the very latest information on high-tech conception, with information on techniques of fertilization, the latest research, and the nature and risks of the potent drugs used to assist in fertilization and implantation. Its goal is to help infertile individuals become informed consumers by describing the different procedures, and showing them how to interpret and compare clinics' claimed success rates; examine the factors that affect success; critically assess the safety of the different techniques both for the mothers and the babies born through such procedures; and understand the importance of genetic screening in in vitro fertilization.
28	In Vitro Fertilization	1208	0.00
	This guide, based on first-hand experience, presents a complete overview of the options available to infertile couples. The reader is taken through the maze of IVF- related facts and fallacies.
29	Beyond Second Opinions : Making Choices About Fertility Treatment	1404	2.50
	Beyond Second Opinions is both an expos of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well- informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and treatments. Judith Steinberg Turiel, a consumer health activist and herself a veteran of fertility treatments, uses the most up-to-date medical literature to shed new light on difficult decisions patients face today and on reproductive questions society must begin to address now. Those who are seeking a more balanced perspective to help them make better, more informed decisions will find a wealth of information about current reproductive interventionsfrom simple fertility pills to dazzling experimental optionsas well as a discussion of the non- medical forces (economic and political) that shape an individual's treatment choices and reproductive outcomes. Despite quantities of information showered upon patients, they remain woefully misinformed; some fertility treatments may actually reduce chances for a successful pregnancy and threaten a patient's health. Turiel looks beyond surface claims to the real information, often uncovering counterintuitive findings and sometimes scandalous revelations. She exposes a realm of unregulated expansion, unscientific experimentation, and recent scandal over stolen embryos. Weaving together first-hand accounts, compelling stories, a range of scientific information, and lively anecdotes, Turiel addresses the persistent gulfs that separate medical professionals and health care consumers. In the process she arms laypeople with what they might not learn about infertility practices from doctors, patient education brochures, and the newspaper.