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The Infertility Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Cope with the Challenges While Maintaining Your Sanity, Dignity, and Relationships

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I found this book to be discouraging and depressing. Infertility is a miserable experience, and reviewing the bad feelings associated with it is counter-productive. We know we're not alone and we know we're on an emotional rollercoaster, now someone offer us something useful. This book reviews all of these feelings in great detail, making one dwell on the helplessness of the situation. The information on handling family and friends was helpful, but overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone dealing with infertility; please find another source of support.

After 3.5 years of trying and a fourth failed IVF treatment, I finally found comfort in the words of Dr. Daniluk. She proved to me that I'm not alone in my anger, jealousy and frustration. Infertility is challenging enough without doubting my emotions, and her words gave me the strength to realize it's okay to feel the way I do.

Her chapters on dealing with friends who have babies, dealing with unwanted advice and dealing with my emotions in general really have given me emotional strength.

Thank you.

Five years ago, when I was undergoing infertility treatment, I could have really used this book. I'd recommend Judith Daniluk's Infertility Survival Guide to anyone who is having problems with fertility. It doesn't contain a lot of medical information - that's readily available elsewhere - rather, it focuses on the emotional and psychological aspects of infertility. There is a lot of good, practical advice on coping with the effects of infertility on different aspects of your life (including your sex life). Daniluk even offers suggested responses to all of those insensitive comments and questions that infertile couples inevitably receive. What's more, she looks at the different ways that women and men respond to infertility. My partner tends not to say a lot about his feelings, and this book would have really helped me better understand what he was going through.

I love this book. The emotional turmoil of infertility is not easily put into words, but it is done fabulously in this book. I've been reading it thinking "Yes, that is EXACTLY how I feel" No, it doesn't sugar coat what this roller coaster ride is like and probably isn't the best resource for anyone who has been trying for less than 1 year to get pregnant or anyone who is not ready to accept that there just may be a possibility that treatments will not work. But, for those of us who know that our fertility is a struggle that will not be easily overcome, if at all, it is a great source of information. I highly recommend it.

This book appeals to anyone going through the mess of emotions when living in a world surrounded with fertile people. It offers the support and encouragement for the many stressful decisions and situations which infertile couples face. I would definelty recommend this approach to infertility.

My partner and I found this book to be tremendously helpful. Daniluk's book contains lots of really useful information on what to expect and how to cope with medical infertility treatments, as well as lots of valuable suggestions and ideas on responding to the comments of others. We found the part on how to deal with family gatherings particularly informative. My partner and I read this book together. We found it helped us stay connected as a couple as Daniluk gave us words to describe the emotions we were each experiencing. We found that by reading Daniluk's book we were in a better position to make treatment decisions during the time we were trying to get pregnant, and we recommend this book to anyone who wants to know how to better cope with the trials and tribulations of being infertile.

This is the most depressing book I've read on the topic and I've read quite a few now. The chapter of what to say to significant and not significant others is about the most useful part of the book, otherwise it is quite discouraging. If you are in the early days of infertility and still having lots of tests and still have lots of hope then please don't read this yet. I finished feeling like I'd better prepare for not ever getting pregnant.