The Fertility Handbook: A Guide to Getting Pregnant [Paperback]

C. Maud Doherty MD (Author), Melanie Morrissey Clark (Author)

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C. Maud Doherty, M.D., is an reproductive endocrinologist who has helped hundreds of couples become parents. She is a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.

About the Author

C. Maud Doherty, MD, is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Melanie Morrissey Clark is editor-in-chief of Today’s Omaha Woman and is the coauthor of Straight Talk About Breast Cancer. They both live in Omaha, Nebraska.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Addicus Books; 1 edition (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886039550
• ISBN-13: 978-1886039551
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,513,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money!, April 18, 2002

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Jane Sanders (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fertility Handbook: A Guide to Getting Pregnant (Paperback)

There are some fantastic books on fertility on the market. This one isn't even remotely close. The Fertility Handbook tries to do it all in 135 pages and sadly, ends up doing very little. This little book attempts to cover everything from emotional concerns to all of the causes and treatments of infertility and causes of & living after miscarriage.

What happens is this: important topics get watered down, and so simplified that they aren't practically useful. Want to learn how to chart your temperature? Hope you're a quick learner, because you get one paragraph to figure it out. Wandering how you should take care of your body while trying to conceive? Don't miss it - it's all in one paragraph.

And yet it's puzzling that there are two pages on selective reduction of multiples, something that very few women will have to face. And if they do, I hope women look at more thorough books than this one to make their decision...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ok, July 15, 2011

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Cadance Westover - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Fertility Handbook: A Guide to Getting Pregnant (Paperback)

I thought this book was ok. The book Taking Charge of Your Fertility I ended up buying after this book and I thought that book was a lot more helpful. I would say go with the other book over this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly, thoroughly worthless, November 24, 2005

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CA Cook (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fertility Handbook: A Guide to Getting Pregnant (Paperback)

There are a lot of infertility books out there. Most of them repeat the same information over and over again. This is one of the more worthless specimens of this latter sort. If you haven't read a single infertility book, then you might find something of value in this book. (But I would get it -- or something similar to it -- from the library if I were you.) If you've already done some reading, then skip this one -- there's nothing new in it.