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Fertility & Infertility for Dummies

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-470-05750-6
Verlag: WILEY
Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2018
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This friendly guide combines professional and personal advice on every aspect of fertility and infertility. From deciding when to seek help and what help to seek, to the emotional, fi nancial, and medical considerations of fertility treatments, you'll be reassured every step of the way with all the support and specialist advice you need to increase your chances of a healthy and happy pregnancy.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780470057506
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-470-05750-6
  • Verlag: WILEY
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.05.2018
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: UK Auflage
  • Serie: For Dummies
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 704 g
  • Seiten: 384
  • Format (B x H x T): 187 x 233 x 21 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Introduction 1

Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended 5

Chapter 1: In the Beginning 7

Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps 21

Part II: Planning a Pregnancy 43

Chapter 3: We’re Trying! We’re Trying! (to Get Pregnant) 45

Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP 71

Chapter 5: Great Expectations But: Early Pregnancy Loss 81

Part III: Tests and Investigations 95

Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist 97

Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3.107

Chapter 8: It’s a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal Sperm Problems 133

Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions 145

Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinics and Funding Treatment 147

Chapter 10: All The ‘I’s: Introducing IUI, IVF, and ICSI 165

Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) 177

Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF 189

Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm! 207

Chapter 14: ‘Babies on Ice’: Egg Freezing and Fertility Treatment 211

Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg Donor Treatments 219

Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab 227

Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You Can Do 241

Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Wait after Embryo Transfer 243

Chapter 18: What’s in Your Freezer? Frozen Embryo Transfers 261

Chapter 19: If at First You Don’t Succeed: Trying IVF More than Once 269

Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options for Non-Traditional Families 281

Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me and Baby Make Four! 283

Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and Single Mums 295

Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices 305

Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas 317

Part VII: The Part of Tens 333

Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep You Sane!) 335

Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medications and Where to Find Them 339

Index 345