The most comprehensive and authoritative guide to getting pregnant and avoiding miscarriage on the web, developed from Robert Jansen's best-selling book.

27 WebPages with special boxes and illustrations covering:

1. Nature. What should be going right ... how your body interacts with nature.
2. Tests. What tests to have done and when.
3. Special treatments. Treatments matched to what's wrong.
4. Assisted conception. Short-cuts to a baby.
5. Society. What to expect from people around you, pregnant or not.

all linked to the most extensive fully-searchable infertility glossary on the web

SECTION 1. NATUREReturn to Top

WebPage 1. Pregnancy and Chance. At the best of times it's not 100%

WebPage 2. Evolution and 'Infertility'. Why you are more normal than you think

WebPage 3. Behind a Successful Conception. How the ovaries, tubes and uterus work

WebPage 4. Establishing a Pregnancy. How a pregnancy forms in the uterus

SECTION 2. TESTSReturn to Top

WebPage 5. Diagnosing Infertility. The first round of tests

WebPage 6. When Pregnancy's Not Possible. What to do when tests show, NO CHANCE (without help)

WebPage 7. When Pregnancy's Not Probable. What to do when the tests show "subfertility"

WebPage 8. Tests for Miscarriages. There are lots you can have done

SECTION 3. SPECIAL TREATMENTReturn to Top

WebPage 9. Treating and Preventing Miscarriages. It depends on the cause, and it's getting better

WebPage 10. A Low Sperm Count. Treatment for men

WebPage 11. Not Ovulating. Ovulation induction drugs

WebPage 12. Complications from Gonadotropin Stimulation. Especially OHSS

WebPage 13. Blocked Fallopian Tubes. Microsurgical operations and more

WebPage 14. Ectopic Pregnancy. Pregnancy in the fallopian tube and other places

WebPage 15. Endometriosis: Symptoms and Causes. What to look for

WebPage 16. Endometriosis: Treatments. Hormones, operations, IVF and other symptomatic relief

WebPage 17. Fibroids and Other Uterine Problems. Not as common as you might think

WebPage 18. Abnormalities Present from Birth. Anomalies of the uterus, intersex and androgen-insensitivity syndromes

SECTION 4. ASSISTED CONCEPTIONReturn to Top

WebPage 19. Helping Nature a Bit. Timing intercourse and orgasms, and more

WebPage 20. Helping Nature a Lot. In vitro fertilization

WebPage 21. Embryo Storage. When your hopes are in the freezer

WebPage 22. Donation and Surrogacy. Look for the traps and pitfalls

WebPage 23. "Designer Babies?" Hardly. The near future: a slope that's not as slippery as it looks

WebPage 24. Pregnancy. What to expect and what to do when you are

SECTION 5. GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE FROM SOCIETYReturn to Top

WebPage 25. Relief from Suffering. Getting good counselling

WebPage 26. Your Doctor's Duties. What your doctor should be doing to help you

WebPage 27. Embryo Research and Society. Infertility research needs everyone's moral support

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