Amazon Description:
This comprehensive book explains in lucid, assured terms
how to practice the fertility awareness method (FAM), a natural,
scientifically proven but little-known form of birth control.
Fertility awareness is useful for not only couples who are trying to
conceive, but for those who are aiming to avoid pregnancy without
the use of chemical contraceptives. It will be of special interest
to those women who have suffered from infertility.
Recommended for any woman who wants to better understand her body.
CBI Review:
Quite possibly every female over the age of 12 will find
this huge book enlightening, pain saving, and perhaps even
lifesaving. Northrup is a gynecologist who acknowledges the power of
natural therapies and herbs, but also maintains that allopathic
treatments, including surgery, are sometimes best. In Women's
Bodies, Women's Wisdom, she covers the treatment of many
physical concerns--among them PMS, menstrual cramps, breast cancer,
fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, depression, childbirth,
abortion, cystitis, and menopause--explaining how many of these
physical problems have roots in emotional upsets.
Amazon Description:
After seven years of tests and more tests, treatments and more
treatments, Elizabeth Swire-Falker understands what it means to
struggle with infertility. In this frank, reassuring, and thoroughly
researched handbook, she shares her own personal experience and
offers insight into what challenges to expect along the way-from
getting support to finding the right doctor x
to dealing with insurance.
Amazon Description:
[the authors] present a strong case
for creating "better" babies by encouraging parents to rigorously
and proactively improve their health through nutrition and
supplements, exercise, and stress control. Naish, a naturopath,
herbalist, and hypnotherapist who runs a natural fertility clinic in
Australia, and Roberts, a clinical nutritionist, combine forces to
instruct potential parents (yes, dads, too!) on ways to detoxify
their bodies, clean up their local environment, and improve their
reproductive health.
Author:
Janet Jaffe, David Diamond & Martha Diamond
Amazon Description:
This empathetic self-help book argues that when couples find out
that they can't have a baby, they're inflicted with an
"unacknowledged trauma that leaves them feeling not only frustrated
and angry, but sad, frightened, confused, guilty, overwhelmed and
out of control." Here they sympathetically cover the core
psychological issues of the matter, including the initial shock and
denial, the persistent feelings of not being "healthy" or "normal,"
the relationship problems, the loss of sexual privacy, the grief and
the belief that you're not really an adult until you have a child.
Amazon Description:
Mother's Day is not a joyful occasion for all women,
particularly those who would like to have children but cannot. Marlo
Schalesky's Empty Womb, Aching Heart: Hope and Help for Those
Struggling with Infertility does for Christian women what Rabbi Nina
Beth Cardin's Tears of Sorrow, Seeds of Hope: A Jewish Spiritual
Companion for Infertility and Pregnancy Loss did for Jewish women:
provide comfort and camaraderie in the face of infertility and
pregnancy loss.
Amazon Description:
It is a moving and uplifting text that considers the loss
involved in the inability to conceive as well as failed pregnancies.
But Tears of Sorrow is also about healing, reconciliation, and
making the months of pregnancy a spiritual journey. In all of these
endeavours, this excellent book succeeds. One
of the strengths of Rabbi Cardin's work is her acknowledgement that
these issues and traumas affect men as well as women, and that true
healing can only come when both parties face them together.
Amazon Description:
Strong values, unshakable faith, excellent educations,
successful careers, loving families, two cats and a dog. This was
the life Jenna and Mike had built for themselves. They were living
the American Dream. The only pieces missing were the children to run
in the manicured yard and the toys scattered throughout the four
bedroom home. Infertility first
seemed to be a minor obstacle in an otherwise peaceful existence.
After four years of treatments including a series of invasive tests,
two intrauterine inseminations, four in vitro fertilisations, two
frozen embryo transfers and one miscarriage, the obstacle became
nearly insurmountable. In this poignant memoir of their journey,
Jenna and Mike recall their experience together.
Amazon Description:
How we overcome adversity is the measure of our integrity and
character. Specifically, the challenge that fertility patients
endure results in mourning a life that has not been realised. These
patients are described as having their faces pressed up against the
windows of families while they long to embrace the dream they do not
own. This book offers hope and the inspiration of "tomorrow" rather
than being stagnant in "today". For anyone longing to be a parent
and frustrated (or depressed) that it isn't happening, this book is
a must-have. Marina Lombardo and Linda J. Parker provide their
readers with an appealing combination of caring support and
practical information so they can navigate this crisis and arrive at
a happy, fulfilled place with or without children.
"Thank you for such a wonderful experience! I learned so much. I've enjoyed this so much that I'm thinking about becoming an Antenatal Teacher and if I do, I'm definitely going through you." - Jami, Washington
