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The Fertility Guide: A Couples Handbook for When You Want to Have a Baby (More Than Anything Else)

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I've read a lot of infertility books, and this is clearly the best. Not only does it explain normal fertility, and then infertility in clear and understandable detail, it also gives a couple the information they need to be active, informed, and effective participants in the infertility treatment team. If not for this book, my wife and I would have had unnecessary and expensive treatments. Thanks.

This book focused tremedously on what to do when you cant have a baby....and emotional issues...did not have essential info..that a couple would use, it was actually depressing

Collaboratively written by obstetrician/gynecologist John C. Jarreet and fertility-related stress and management counselor Deidra T. Rausch, The Fertility Guide: A Couples Handbook For When You Want To Have A Baby (More Than Anything Else) is a comprehensive, straightforward and "reader friendly" guide specifically for couples wanting to know the medical facts about the variety of options to improve their chances of successful conception. Covering medical terms in detail, yet written specifically for non-specialist general readers seeking to educate themselves on a complex condition, The Fertility Guide covers everything from endometriosis to donor gametes. The Fertility Guide is superbly presented, authoritative, extensive, and highly recommended reference.

I feel this book arms the reader with the information needed in deciding which direction to take once you've found yourself on the path where no hopeful parent wants to be. I love that it validates the many feelings which accompany infertility when society, out of a misguided need to help, often encourages us to squelch these emotions. The book also offers alternatives to "genetic parenting" rather than enforcing treatment as your only hope of getting on with your life. I found Part Two: Understanding the Medical Aspects of Infertility, to be an easy-to-comprehend guide of the workings of the body and a walk-through of the various procedures available to assist in your quest for parenthood. It's my opinion that every would-be parent would feel so much more "in control", something that is rarely felt in infertility, if they would walk into their doctor's office with this book firmly under their arm.

John C. Jarrett, M.D. and Deidra T. Rausch, Ph.D. have spent years helping couples with fertility difficulties. They've teamed up to write The Fertility Guide: A Couples Guidebook For When You Want To Have A Baby, a complete and easy-to-understand manual for people with problems becoming pregnant. Their book is unique among fertility books because they discuss the emotional aspects of infertility, as well as the medical aspects.(...)