The Infertility Survival Handbook...

rainbowbright · 06-09-2004, 10:49 PM

Just wanted to recomend this book. I picked it up last week and this has been the most helpful book that I have read about infertililty. I love it!!! Not sure if anyone else will feel the same, but thought I'd post it.

The Infertility Survival Handbook, by Elizabeth Swire Falker.

"Your pregnant friends ( who all seem to be on baby #2 by now) have the nerve to complain about how fat they are, how much baby is kicking, and how exhausting it is to be pregnant-or worse-pregnant again! None of this is anything you want to hear when you are struggling to coneive. Elizabeth Swire Falker has been there. After seven years of infertility tests and treatments, she knows what you are going through. In this frank, thorough, and reassuring handbook, from a lwayer with a background in health advocacy, she shares her own personal experience with infertility and offers insight on what challenges to expect along the way-getting support, finding the right doctor, dealing with insurance, knowing which treatments to try, and when to move on. She helps you navigate the maze of infertility tests and treatments and handle the finaincial strain and marital stress that accompany the treatments. She explains, IUIs, IVF, traditional adoption, embryo adoption, donor eggs, gestation surrogacy, and the virtues of living without children. What questions to ask your doctor and nurse and how to be your own advocate for good medical care. And she reminds you just how normal it is to feel as if you are losing your mind- and your waistline (just one unforunate side effect of infertililty treatments"