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How To Be A Successful Fertility Patient [Paperback]

Peggy Robin (Author)
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September 22, 1993
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 possible
  • How different treatment regimens might affect your
    general health and life-style
  • How to find insurance that will pay for your fertility care
  • Which tests are crucial and which can be avoided
  • When to switch doctors
  • What 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.


    Product Details

    • Paperback: 448 pages
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1st edition (September 22, 1993)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0688117325
    • ISBN-13: 978-0688117320
    • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
    • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
    • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
    • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,266,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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    5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!!!, September 1, 1999
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    This review is from: How To Be A Successful Fertility Patient (Paperback)
    Any women or couple starting to experience infertility must read this book!!!! This book was a great source of information for my husband and I when we began our trip down the infertility road. During our doctor visits, our doctor would ramble of numerous prosedures, surgerys, test and medications we may have to go through, it would boggle both our minds. We'd go home, look up everything discussed at the appointment in this book and we knew exactly what to expect from any given procedure or test. It help relieve a lot of the stress we were both experiencing.
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    18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great, extremely helpful!!, April 5, 1999
    By A Customer
    This review is from: How To Be A Successful Fertility Patient (Paperback)
    This book provides an honest and candid look at the world of infertiltiy. It gives the reader real examples and descriptions of fertility drugs, procedures, side effects and the effect on your lifestyle. It describes medical conditions and procedures in non-medical terms. Any fertility patient who really wants to have an understanding of what is going on with her body and emotions during the fertility process should read this book. I highly recommend it!
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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Super thorough and informative, December 21, 2006
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    Ivy F. (West Coast) - See all my reviews
    This review is from: How To Be A Successful Fertility Patient (Paperback)
    This book is extremely thorough, covering everything from diagnostic testing, to treatment (high and low tech) to how procedures and medications will make you feel physically and otherwise.

    Written in a very straight forward and easy to understand way, but not dumbed down by any means.

    It's not a self help book designed to make you "feel" better. It's meant to inform and educate. And as out of date as my copy is, it's still very, very relevant to fertility treatments today.

    Not at all negative in tone. It gives a truthful picture of what you should expect when going through any type of treatment for infertility. I'm an IVF veteran and still find it helpful as a reference.

    Cannot recommend this book enough!
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