GETTING PREGNANT
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Want to know what your doctor knows about infertility and miscarriages?

This book
  • is 2004 up-to-date
  • gives you web-based backup & updates
  • reads like a story
  • has the range and authority of a college text-book
  • updated edition of Scientific American book "Overcoming Infertility"
Jansen understands the emotionally charged act of picking up his book ... "
Robin Herman, reviewing "Overcoming Infertility" in The Washington Post, describes the book as follows

"It is hard to accept that the term infertility applies ... and it takes courage to open a book that maps out the road ahead."

Contents

"Using a supportive but not overly personal tone, Jansen has created a handbook that in its self-contained chapters and detailed boxes allows the reader to take exactly what he or she needs.

"Jansen has avoided the posture of many infertility specialists who write as though they are your personal doctor -- or worse, your friend -- and can "solve" your infertility if only you follow their detailed advice on high-tech treatments.

SECTION 1. NATURE
   Chapter 1.  Pregnancy and Chance. At the best times it's not 100%
   Chapter 2.  Evolution and 'Infertility'. Why you are more normal than you think
   Chapter 3.  Behind a Successful Conception. How the ovaries, tubes and uterus work
   Chapter 4.  Establishing a Pregnancy. How a pregnancy come forms in the uterus

SECTION 2. TESTS
   Chapter 5.  Diagnosing Infertility. The first round of tests
   Chapter 6.  When Pregnancy's Not Possible. What to do when tests show, NO CHANCE (without help)
   Chapter 7.  When Pregnancy's Not Probable. What to do when the tests show "subfertility"
   Chapter 8.  Tests for Miscarriages. There are a lots you can have done

SECTION 3. SPECIAL TREATMENT
   Chapter 9.  Treating and Preventing Miscarriages. It depends on the cause, and it's getting better
   Chapter 10.  A Low Sperm Count. Treatment for men
   Chapter 11.  Not Ovulating. Ovulation induction drugs
   Chapter 12.  Complications from Gonadotropin Stimulation. Especially OHSS
   Chapter 13.  BLocked Fallopian Tubes. Microsurgical operations and more
   Chapter 14.  Ectopic Pregnancy. Pregnancy in the fallopian tube and other places
   Chapter 15.  Endometriosis: Symptoms and Causes. What to look for
   Chapter 16.  Endometriosis: Treatments. Hormones, operations, IVF and other symptomatic relief
   Chapter 17.  Fibroids and Other Uterine Problems. Not as common as you might think
   Chapter 18.  Abnomarlities Present from Birth. Anomalis of the uterus, intersex and androgen-insentivity syndromes

SECTION 4. ASSISTED CONCEPTION
   Chapter 19.  Helping Nature a Bit. Timing intercourse and orgasms, and more
   Chapter 20.  Helping Nature a Lot. In vitro fertilization
   Chapter 21.  Embryo Storage. When your hopes are in the freezer
   Chapter 22.  Donation and Surrogacy. Look for the traps and pitfalls
   Chapter 23.  "Designer Babies?" Hardly. The near future: a slope that's not as slippery as it looks
   Chapter 24.  Pregnancy. What to expect and what to do when you are

SECTION 5. GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE FROM SOCIETY
   Chapter 25.  Relief from Suffering. Getting good counselling
   Chapter 26.  Your Doctor's Duties. What your doctor should be doing to help you
   Chapter 27.  Embryo Research and Society. Infertility research needs everyone's moral support

 
 
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