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The Mess in Her Womb: A couple's journey through Infertility by [Dr Chhavi Gandhi Juneja]

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Pranay Ahuja and Drishti Kapoor are quintessential young, happily married couple in their thirties in the Garden city of Bangalore. Their seemingly smooth ride through life is jolted by a hurricane when Drishti learns about her issues of infertility. With constant failures, miscarriages, and continuous In-vitro fertilization procedures, Drishti spirals into depression. The chase for the baby leads to a strained relationship with her parents, finding solidarity in the people with the same circumstances, and resentment towards people with pregnancy announcements. Understanding her deteriorating mental health and initial denial of the treatment, she diverts her chase from the baby towards mental peace.
This is the story of a woman who has everything everyone else wishes for, a loving husband, an extremely supportive set of parents, a blooming career, and financial security. In order to pursue what she can’t have, she risked everything she had. While drowning in the sea of sorrows, she finds solace in her best friend Naina, who like her, is trying to be pregnant through IVF, Mrs. Seema, a successful business owner and her next-door neighbor, and her boss and colleagues at her workplace.

In this contemporary fiction of pain, hurt, rage, disappointment, loss, love, and hope, follow Drishti and Pranay in their mission to find their purpose, rekindle the lost love in their relationship, and build the world they have longed for.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09W94VJYV
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Papertowns India (March 22, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 22, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 480 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #2,008,659 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #44,290 in Contemporary Women's Fiction
- #56,282 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #69,872 in Contemporary Women Fiction

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Dr. Chhavi Gandhi Juneja

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Dr. Chhavi Gandhi Juneja is a Clinical Microbiologist, an Infection Control Officer, and an up-and-coming author of the new novel “The Mess in her womb: A couple’s journey through Infertility.” After serving her time in the reputed laboratories and the hospitals of India before and during the pandemic, she got inspired by the resilience of the human race to survive in the adversities, but at the cost of mental peace and lucidity. The misconstrued decisions against the restoration of mental health and the complete obscurity regarding the importance of it, she took some time out to pen down her experiences with two stigmas ruling our society: Infertility and Mental Health.

As a dedicated healthcare worker, Dr. Chhavi has featured in the Doctors’ day 2020 edition of the esteemed Readers’ Digest.

During her free time, she enjoys a cozy cup of hot chocolate while reading novels by Cecelia Ahern or Nicholas Sparks.

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Erica

A sincere telling of infertility

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2022

We meet the main character, Drishti, as she is experiencing the agonizing pain - both emotionally and physically - of a second miscarriage. For three years, she and her husband have been trying to build a family with the help of IVF or In vitro fertilization.

Quick stats:
According to the CDC, over 6 million women just in the United States have difficulty getting and/or staying pregnant. To give you even more of a perspective of how common infertility is among women, 1 in 4 experience miscarriage, 1 in 8 struggle to conceive.

Chances are, you know someone who has had a run-in with infertility. So why don’t you hear about it? It’s an uncomfortable conversation to have and unfortunately a taboo subject for the majority of society.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘣 paints a picture of what it is like to experience miscarriage and infertility. Throughout the story, there are other women in Drishti’s life who have gone through similar experiences and women who are pregnant and thriving. Drishti’s struggle isn’t just with infertility but all that comes with fighting to feel a baby grow strong and healthy inside her womb. She has a hard time accepting that other women get to have this experience when she is denied it over and over again.

She becomes so obsessed with what she doesn’t have that she forgets what she does have. She becomes angry and frustrated with her loved ones who don’t understand what it means to be unintentionally childless. Infertility doesn’t just take the chance of parenthood away, it takes your sanity, it takes your love, it takes everything. Does Drishti let infertility take everything else from her? You’ll have to read and see!

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How to Cope When You Are Not Expecting

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2022

The Mess In Her Wombs is a necessary story for those who fight infertility. While What to Expect When You Are Expecting is the go-to read for pregnant women, this novel should stand as the How to Cope When You Are Not Expecting. The main character is a lively and adorable Indian woman who fights infertility and, in the process, experiences a rollercoaster of emotions. While she shares her job and family struggles, she helps the reader grow too. Drishti's emotional journey is a lesson and a joy to women, teaching us how to stop burdening ourselves with what we cannot control and enjoy the gifts of health and relationships. I fell in love with Dristhy and Pranay's story. Dr. Chhavy's prose is delightful and left me wanting more.

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A heartfelt, real to life story

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2022

Infertility- a topic that needs to be less of a taboo, be discussed, understood and normalized. The author does a great job of giving us a peak into reality of this tragedy in every day life- not just at doctor's appointments or bad days. I hope this brings us a step closer to being more empathetic to our loved ones going through this nature's brutality.

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Noor

Realistic fiction

Reviewed in India on June 25, 2022

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Pranay Ahuja and Drishti Kapoor are quintessential young, happily married couple in their thirties in the Garden city of Bangalore. With constant failures, miscarriages, and continuous In-vitro fertilization procedures, Drishti spirals into depression. The chase for the baby leads to a strained relationship with her parents, finding solidarity in the people with the same circumstances, and resentment towards people with pregnancy announcements. Understanding her deteriorating mental health and initial denial of the treatment, she diverts her chase from the baby towards mental peace.

In this contemporary fiction of pain, hurt, rage, disappointment, loss, love, and hope, follow Drishti and Pranay in their mission to find their purpose, rekindle the lost love in their relationship, and build the world they have longed for.
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The title reveals the main theme of the book i.e. infertility How strange is the fact that sometimes the basic things one yearns for..a happy marriage, a good caring husband, wonderful inlaws, a good career, money, independence etc..when one has all of these precious things, people find it hard to digest, what a person possibly "not have"? Kids! Where a huge chunk of the population enjoy this blessing, some have to wait for ages getting treatments, praying for a child.

Yes this book is about wanting a child, about loss & grief when one loses her pregnancy, about emotions, treatments & technical jargon but it is also about mental health of the woman as well as the man involved, their stress, struggle & turmoil. Sometimes in wanting a child, the next step after marriage, parents, inlaws, relatives ignore the well being, esp mental, of the couple involved.

This story is about getting back at life, blowing fresh air into your life, focussing on other aspects of your life & not cry over one aspect while ruining your blessings.

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The Versatile Doctor

This Is Not a Story About IVF, This Is a Story About a Woman

Reviewed in India on June 11, 2022

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4.5 Stars

The Mess In Her Womb is a unique novel.

For most of the first half of the book I was thinking about a very important thing that was missing from the story - a layman's guide to infertility. I felt like the tragedy that has befallen Dr. Drishti Kapoor, the protagonist, is so profound and yet so hard to relate to for anyone who hasn't been through the same pain, that the book might suffer for it with respect to average readers.

This is no one's fault but the only people who can understand the depth of the misery, desperation, frustration and the mental pressure felt by a woman undergoing IVF are those who have either been through it themselves or have seen someone close to them go through the ordeal. This is a fact. And is very clearly depicted in the story. Which is why I felt that to make any casual reader, who has neither endured nor observed the pain of infertility, care for this story, a little more narration was needed to bring them up to speed with the pain of accepting infertility and starting the torturous journey through IVF.

Later, however, it became apparent that this wasn't a story about IVF - this was the story of a woman and the ordeals in her life. IVF being one (and the most difficult one) of them.

This book is not the simple story that begins with the protagonist having failed to have a natural conception, then go through the tale and processes of IVF and then to eventually be rewarded for their courage and unwavering determination with a baby.

Dr. Drishti Kapoor is not a superwoman. She is a person scarred by her past, traumatised by her presence and betrayed by her physiology. And the only way that she could get through is with help. A lot of help.

Another point that most readers (especially male readers) would find unfulfilling in this story is what a background role the only significant male character in this story has been given. This is addressed very subtly towards the very end of the novel - the narrator (Drishti) could not have fathomed that the male character was going through a struggle of his own. And it is this realization that drives the story to its conclusion, and not the IVF itself.

The author has taken a bold step by addressing the possibility of a "childfree" life (although I didn't like her using the word "childless" in those scenarios). But in the end the driving force behind a decision of going through IVF or considering adoption (or other options) must be a particular couple's own informed decision, not the outcome of social pressures.

This book truly deserves a five star rating but I am forced to reduce half a star because of a few minor language issues.

Overall the Language of the story is absolutely to the point, a well crafted prose with ease of understanding and, at the same time, depth of picturization of situations and emotions with well written words. Only a few phrases felt out of place so much as to push me out of the moment on the pages. And those instances being mostly in the last quarter of the book, I was not happy.

In any case, Dr. Chhavi Gandhi Juneja has written a beautifully painful story and the story deserves to be read.

I'll recommend this book to mature readers only, I feel young adults under the age of 25 would not appreciate the tragedy of the story. But for anyone who is either a parent or planning to be one, this book is unputdownable.

Warning: Mental Health issues including tendency for self harm; and events that may depress susceptible people need to be kept in mind before picking up this must read.

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Natasha

A decent read

Reviewed in India on July 18, 2022

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Drishti and Pranay want to be parents desperately but they are unable to conceive naturally. And thus begin their journey of infertility and transformation. Even though the subtitle says it is tale of a couple's journey, it is more of Drishti's story. She is the narrator and protagonist.

As they decide to go for IVF treatment, the medicines, hormones and continuous failures take a toll on Drishti's physical, emotional and mental health. The story is about her mental and physical state, her relationships and her outlook on things around her. The pain is real, the issues and stigma are real too. But I didn't like the storytelling style and wasn't drawn into it fully.

I can't say that I agree with all of the author's views on infertility or adoption, but she has talked about an important and often neglected aspect of infertility, that is the mental health of the affected couple. And I must applaud her for that.

Overall, a decent read.

JIGYASA NIGAM

A mess in her womb and in her head

Reviewed in India on April 26, 2022

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Drishti - A doctor by profession have a loving husband pranay but her desire of being a mother is unfulfilled. They both take a oath of IVF but the path is rocky and how this affects their relationship, her relationship with her family, in laws & friends ans most importantly how it affects her mental health is beautifully written by the author.

I haven't read any book on this topic and it literally broke my heart to just imagine what a women have to go through to get her desire of become a mother and wouldn't lie that I cried a lot while reading this book.

It's author's debut novel but I was amazed the way she has written it doesn't seems like she wrote a book for the first time.

The only thing I found little difficult was a lot of biological and medical terms which sometimes might become for everyone to understand but definitely took me back to my school days.

Manoj Bhatia

Emotional read portrayed beautifully.

Reviewed in India on June 20, 2022

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This book is about a woman who has the will to fight. It also talks about mental health and addresses it nicely. The author describes the process of IVF and the mental trauma a person goes through during this process.

The author highlights the social stigma of infertility, the societal pressure it carries, and the journey a parent has to go through. The protagonist's conversation with her brother is very heart melting. The switch from present to past and vice versa added to the reading experience.

The author has a great hand at writing, which makes the book more emotional. Apart from the writing, I really loved the title of the book. The title totally justified the content.

I would surely recommend this book to readers who have the maturity to understand this process and the pain it carries along with it.

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