Customer Reviews

A Few Good Eggs: Two Chicks Dish on Overcoming the Insanity of Infertility

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After seeing these two on the Today Show, I ordered the book immediately. But I was extremely disappointed in the way they positioned the whole infertility process.

I've been trying to conceive for almost 3 years, and have read nearly every book there is on the subject. This one insulted me, and made me feel that my infertility was something to laugh about.

I agree with other comments here . . . don't waste your money on this one. Try the books by Richard Marrs, Daniel Potter, or Sherman Silber. These are written by experts that will help you understand the processes you might go through in a comforting and supportive way. The newest one is by Dr. Potter, and is probably the best of the three.

i was so hoping this book would enlighten me and maybe make me laugh. it did neither; i was angry and depressed when i finished it. my wife and i spent years trying to conceive and even though we have the family we always dreamed of, we are facing the issues again trying to have another baby. i have been doing a lot of reading to learn about the new technologies and treatments available to us and this book was useless and somewhat offensive. if you want a book that really helps look to authors like geoffrey sher, md, elizabeth swire-falker and lisa charlesworth. they published books that are worth spending precious dollars on . . . this one is not.

This book was good, but not what I expected based on all the reviews I read on Amazon about it. I was expecting GREAT, not simply good. No big slam, just not worth the hype. Not much different, really, than what is already out there on the bookshelves... which is OK, but I was hoping for something more earth-shattering --not just another non-medical perspective and all the same medical techniques described, blah, blah, blah.

Truth is, I should have checked this book out first at the bookstore to see if it was right for me. It wasn't a total waste of money, but didn't really address what I was looking for. I will pass it along to a friend who is getting ready to IVF...

Bottom line -- I guess you shouldn't buy a book just based on reviews. Do some investigation first.

This book stinks. The authors are way too chatty and way too catty. I read a chapter before bed and had the worst NIGHTMARE of my life. Infertility isn't the stuff that comedians joke about on Comedy Central so I'm not sure why these authors think it's so funny. I don't appreciate the way they belittled what my partner and I are going through and I won't recommend this twit of a book to anyone. Bottom line - leave this book where it belongs -- in a warehouse.

Suffering from the inability to get pregnant is a difficult and arduous journey. Reading this book was worse. Shame on Julie Vargo and Maureen Regan for trying to pass this off as helpful.Clearly all of your friends have written the good reviews. My advise to others is to look for books like "What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant". Now those authors know how to be helpful!!!!!!

I purchased this in hardback after noticing how well it's selling on Amazon.com It didn't take long to realize that sales rank has nothing to with content.

A Few Good Eggs is filled with tiring stereotypes and couches the entire infertility experience in a negative light. I'm surprised that some people have commented that this book made them laugh when I found it down right insulting.

It's quite long for the empty medical content it holds for readers. It appears as though the authors stretched out what they were trying to say by using chatty, meaningless, and often insulting dialogue. My husband had trouble with this book too because he felt that the authors addressed his situation as an afterthought. Yes, the authors had their husbands jot down their experiences but my husband didn't believe these footnotes made the book worthwhile.

I don't believe I'm the only one that feels this way. I mentioned this book in my support group and many other couples seemed to draw the same conclusion. I did order a few other books in paperback (hint: much cheaper, a tad shorter, and much more informative) and found what I was looking for.

All I can say is please don't buy this book. It was harmful and confusing to both me and my husband. I am so sorry I bought it. Shame on Vargo and Regan for taking making this whole process more difficult then it should have been.

Several things about this book disappointed me. The book is very much colored by the infertility experiences of the two authors, who seem to chalk up much of their difficulty getting pregnant to age. As other reviewers have noted, the book provides a LOT of admonishment for women not to delay childbearing past their 20s, which I didn't find particularly helpful. Given this bias, the book makes only passing reference to other (not age-related) factors that result in infertility, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome or male factor infertility. The latter I found especially disappointing, as one half of a couple that is infertile due to male factor issues. I really think that if the authors set out to write a book about infertility, not a memoir, then they should have done a better job of reaching beyond their own experiences and circumstances.

I can see how this book is helpful to women who relate to the authors' experiences. For me, it offered some light-hearted moments, but I would have appreciated a book with a broader perspective on infertility.

A few other minor criticisms: Like another reviewer, I also would have appreciated hearing the experiences of someone who went through IVF. Final gripe: I take exception to the authors' silly remarks about husbands always being happy and ready for the sex involved in baby-making. Many couples dealing with infertility will tell you that sex - for both parties - can become a chore and a reminder that things are not working as we all thought they would. I found their approach to this topic to be somewhat juvenile.

If you are buying this book and are over 35, you probably already know you are too old to have good eggs, waited too long to have kids, or marry the right guy, and were selfish by focusing on you and your career during your 20s. These two seemed to want to just chastise you for not grabbing the first guy you found at 18 and starting to have kids. I also found them a little pompous (as in yea - I had fertility problems but now look at me I have two kids, ha ha). Any woman who is going through infertility does not need this sort of info. I found it almost cruel. However, I could have ignored the stupid criticisms if there was any really useful info in the book. There wasn't. Most of it was very basic. If you are actually dishing out $25 for an infertility book you have probably already discovered cycle days and cervical mucus and the fact you need a fertility specialist. Try another book. This one is a waste of money.

The hard evidence to back up the Two Chicks opinions on why women are infertile relies more on their limited personal opinions than on solid research from a medical standpoint.

Much of the book is repeated in order to stretch it out I would presume.

I really didn't care for the finger pointing by these aging hens that young American women are self absorbed hedonistic twits and that's why they're infertile years later.

That's a simplistic analogy and doesn't contribute anything of value, save for snarky humor.

Also one of the chicks commented that men who like thin lithe women must be gay.
How weird. Guess she's fat and wants to think anyone not hot for her is gay.

There is a plethora of fantastic books handling the topic of infertility and when to have children much better than this featherweight fluff.

I'm happily single and young (under 30) and balk at the scare mongering these two old biddies dish up.