Getting Pregnant: What Couples Need To Know Right Now
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ISBN-13: 9780684864044
ISBN-10: 0684864045
Pagini: 592
Ilustrații: 15 - 25 b-w line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
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ISBN-10: 0684864045
Pagini: 592
Ilustrații: 15 - 25 b-w line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:Revised and Upd
Editura: ATRIA
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Notă biografică
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and educated throughout the capitols of Europe as an obstetrician/gynecologist and fertility expert, Dr. Niels Lauersen has dedicated more than four decades to treating and educating women about their health, in both US and abroad. He is the author of over 100 medical papers published in journals worldwide and he is the founder of The New York Medical Society for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Lauersen is the author of eight books on women's health including his groundbreaking gynecology guide It's Your Body and his international bestselling guide to fertility Getting Pregnant: What You Need to Know. Dr. Lauersen is also the medical director of GettingPregnantNow.org, the premier online site for pregnancy and fertility information.
Coauthor of the bestselling Getting Pregnant, Colette Bouchez is the former senior medical writer for the New York Daily News. Her award-winning work has been honored by the American Cancer Society, The Medill School of journalism, and the American College of dermatology. Her reporting on women's health care issues has received an Emmy award.
Coauthor of the bestselling Getting Pregnant, Colette Bouchez is the former senior medical writer for the New York Daily News. Her award-winning work has been honored by the American Cancer Society, The Medill School of journalism, and the American College of dermatology. Her reporting on women's health care issues has received an Emmy award.
Extras
Introduction: The Really Good News About Getting Pregnant
When I was in medical school in the 1960s, the birth control pill was the prescription of the decade. Indeed, young men and women were far more concerned with avoiding pregnancy than with getting pregnant. Happily, this is no longer the case. Today, getting pregnant is something more and more couples view as a joyous life-expanding experience to be celebrated and cherished. And, too, we have seen the "birth" of the single mother, with many women choosing to honor the alarm on their biological clock by becoming mothers whether or not they have a suitable mate in mind.
Fortunately, along with these changes in our attitude about pregnancy came some equally important scientific advances that made it faster and easier for all women to get pregnant, and for most couples to achieve their parenting goals.
In fact, thanks to what we have learned in the past several years alone, almost every woman who wants to have a baby can have one!
Why I Wrote This Book
Although the field of reproductive medicine continues to explode with new advances, my deep commitment to fertility research goes back several decades. As a member of several key scientific teams I have devoted thousands of hours to reproductive research, and my work has taken me around the world more than three times, to the capitals of Europe where the first "test tube" baby was conceived, to Russia, South America, and the Far East -- anywhere I could learn the latest information on the reproductive system. Beginning in 1990, I joined forces with a team of dedicated physicians and researchers to create a medical center specifically to deal with infertility problems. As a result I have been able to see, firsthand, the exciting, almost miraculous ways in which the field of reproductive medicine has continued to grow, and how it can and does change peoples lives.
Time and again my colleagues and I have witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of our fertility patients who are able to have all-natural conceptions and healthy pregnancies just by making a few simple dietary and lifestyle changes.
As astounding and important as these advances were, as I traveled the country giving lectures and making television appearances, I began to see that too many couples were still not taking advantage of all the possibilities. My colleague and coauthor Colette Bouchez, an award-winning and respected medical journalist and researcher, began to see the same thing, even among her sophisticated urban readers. While we both did our best to bring much of the good news about reproductive medicine to the public, we could see that too often, too many couples were still "in the dark" about all of their options. While some, certainly, had the basic information about such procedures as in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination, both Colette and I were continually amazed at how few people were informed about the really dramatic advances. Indeed, even many physicians were not aware of some of the great and relatively easy new fertility procedures that we knew could change people's lives.
Thus, we conceived the idea for this book -- a resource and a guide to the newest, most important fertility information available today, data that has made and will continue to make a significant difference in people's lives. It is our hope that this book will make a difference in your life as well.
Part One: How the New Discoveries Can Help You
If you are planning to have a baby in the very near future or even if you haven't yet decided when motherhood will be right for you, knowing the factors that could affect your childbearing potential will enable you to take the necessary steps to protect your reproductive options and ensure that your body remains ready for pregnancy throughout your childbearing years. Part One of this book was developed to help you do just that.
It begins by exploring the very latest information on how your reproductive system functions and what biological factors can cause it to malfunction. It also explains how you can use your family history to help predict fertility problems and discusses the preventative treatments you can begin right now. It also shows how the ways in which you and your partner live, work, and play may be affecting your reproductive health, and suggests things you both can do, starting today, to make the most of your most fertile years. In Part One you will also discover:
Here, you'll also find a primer on the most common sexually transmitted diseases, with new information on how to keep even the most devastating infections from harming your reproductive health. You'll learn to recognize the early signs and symptoms -- in both yourself and your partner -- and find out the latest treatment options.
And, finally, you 'll learn important new truths about male fertility, along with vital new ways your partner can protect his virility and his potency, while decreasing your risk of miscarriage and protecting your baby from birth defects.
Part Two: Getting Pregnant Right Now -- More Good News
If you are thinking about getting pregnant in the near future, and especially if you are actively trying to conceive right now, Part Two was written for you. It provides the very latest information on the factors that may influence your immediate ability to conceive, and to sustain a healthy pregnancy.
In this section you'll find:
Want to have a boy? Can't wait to have a girl? We'll tell you how!
In addition, you'll find an exciting new kind of nutritional guide with information on the foods that can increase your fertility and encourage your reproductive health. You will also find all the latest information on the vitamins, minerals, and herbs that can not only influence your ability to get pregnant but help reduce your baby's risk of problems from the moment of conception. You'll even learn how making love on your birthday can give your fertility a secret boost, and may help you get pregnant faster!
Finally, you'll read about the new Fertility Exam 2000, the very latest form of pre-conception counseling that can help ensure your pregnancy right from the start. Included are all the tests and treatments your doctor should be administering to help ensure that any baby you conceive will be healthy right from the start. What's more, with the information provided, you will be able to uncover any potential fertility problems you may not know you have and learn how to correct them before they seriously harm your reproductive health.
Part Three: If You Don't Get Pregnant Right Away -- What to Do
In Part Three you will find the most advanced and most important new technologies developed to help you have a baby, even if you believe you are infertile. The data in Part Three not only will help you understand why you are having a problem getting pregnant, but will offer a multitude of options for solving your problem. Some of what this section offers:
How to tell if you can have a baby long before you try to conceive -- plus how to turn the pregnancy odds in your favor
Superovulation, one of the newest ways for every woman to increase her chances for conception
The surprising truth about fertility drugs, including new information about their safety, and how they can help you have a natural conception
Brand-new time- and money-saving fertility surgeries that require no hospitalization and can help you get pregnant in record time
Because we now know that male fertility is a factor for nearly half of all couples who cannot conceive, this section will also offer the very latest treatments for male fertility, including the brand-new ICSI procedure.
In addition, you'll learn about the astonishing new ways that artificial insemination is helping millions of couples get pregnant, and you'll find information on the breakthroughs that can increase the success of all laboratory-aided conceptions, including in vitro fertilization, and even let you know beforehand which of the new methods is going to be best for you.
You'll also learn about the GIFT procedure and it's newest cousin, called ZIFT, both of which can help you achieve a faster, easier, healthier conception regardless of your age or how long you have been infertile.
Later in this section you will also find the latest information on donor eggs and donor sperm, as well as the new data on embryo freezing. And in a special chapter devoted to the midlife pregnancy you will find all the information you need to help you get pregnant after age thirty-five, including special dietary precautions and the treatments that will and won't help you conceive.
Part Four: Your Personal Pregnancy Planner
In Part Four of this book you'll find a Personal Pregnancy Planner -- a six-month guide that takes you step-by-step through everything you need to do to have a healthy baby, whether you conceive on your own or with laboratory assistance.
Whether showing you ways to protect your fertility from current dangers or helping you restore it from dangers past, the programs in this book were developed to help you have a fast, easy, healthy conception. Not only can you be sure of your ability to get pregnant right now, but you can retain your reproductive options throughout your childbearing years. You have the power to achieve your parenting dreams. Good luck and go for it -- we're on your side!
Copyright © 1991, 2000 by Niels H. Lauersen, M.D., Ph.D., and Colette Bouchez
When I was in medical school in the 1960s, the birth control pill was the prescription of the decade. Indeed, young men and women were far more concerned with avoiding pregnancy than with getting pregnant. Happily, this is no longer the case. Today, getting pregnant is something more and more couples view as a joyous life-expanding experience to be celebrated and cherished. And, too, we have seen the "birth" of the single mother, with many women choosing to honor the alarm on their biological clock by becoming mothers whether or not they have a suitable mate in mind.
Fortunately, along with these changes in our attitude about pregnancy came some equally important scientific advances that made it faster and easier for all women to get pregnant, and for most couples to achieve their parenting goals.
- New information about both male and female biology has given us ways to encourage not only faster but healthier conceptions, with fewer chances for miscarriage and birth defects.
- Discoveries concerning the cause of infertility have given us new ways for men and women to protect their childbearing ability as well as their sexual vitality while they safely postpone childbearing.
- Outstanding advances in nutritional therapy have given us new ways to harness the power of vitamins and minerals and in the process helped us not only reduce the risk of birth defects but also protect and even increase fertility, in both men and women.
- Stellar progress made in the treatment of infertility itself -- including powerful new medications, new forms of microsurgery, and brand-new laboratory-assisted procedures -- has not only allowed more previously infertile couples to get pregnant, but has given us new ways that even parents over age thirty-five can have a safer, healthier pregnancy.
In fact, thanks to what we have learned in the past several years alone, almost every woman who wants to have a baby can have one!
Why I Wrote This Book
Although the field of reproductive medicine continues to explode with new advances, my deep commitment to fertility research goes back several decades. As a member of several key scientific teams I have devoted thousands of hours to reproductive research, and my work has taken me around the world more than three times, to the capitals of Europe where the first "test tube" baby was conceived, to Russia, South America, and the Far East -- anywhere I could learn the latest information on the reproductive system. Beginning in 1990, I joined forces with a team of dedicated physicians and researchers to create a medical center specifically to deal with infertility problems. As a result I have been able to see, firsthand, the exciting, almost miraculous ways in which the field of reproductive medicine has continued to grow, and how it can and does change peoples lives.
- Couples who were thought to be hopelessly infertile are now able to conceive and deliver not just one, but two and three perfect children.
- Those who previously miscarried up to fifteen times are now giving birth to healthy, full-term babies.
- Women who thought they were "too old" to have a baby are now giving birth to wonderful, beautiful children. Even those women who reach menopause prematurely -- in their mid-forties, for example -- have brand-new options for having a baby of their own.
Time and again my colleagues and I have witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of our fertility patients who are able to have all-natural conceptions and healthy pregnancies just by making a few simple dietary and lifestyle changes.
As astounding and important as these advances were, as I traveled the country giving lectures and making television appearances, I began to see that too many couples were still not taking advantage of all the possibilities. My colleague and coauthor Colette Bouchez, an award-winning and respected medical journalist and researcher, began to see the same thing, even among her sophisticated urban readers. While we both did our best to bring much of the good news about reproductive medicine to the public, we could see that too often, too many couples were still "in the dark" about all of their options. While some, certainly, had the basic information about such procedures as in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination, both Colette and I were continually amazed at how few people were informed about the really dramatic advances. Indeed, even many physicians were not aware of some of the great and relatively easy new fertility procedures that we knew could change people's lives.
Thus, we conceived the idea for this book -- a resource and a guide to the newest, most important fertility information available today, data that has made and will continue to make a significant difference in people's lives. It is our hope that this book will make a difference in your life as well.
Part One: How the New Discoveries Can Help You
If you are planning to have a baby in the very near future or even if you haven't yet decided when motherhood will be right for you, knowing the factors that could affect your childbearing potential will enable you to take the necessary steps to protect your reproductive options and ensure that your body remains ready for pregnancy throughout your childbearing years. Part One of this book was developed to help you do just that.
It begins by exploring the very latest information on how your reproductive system functions and what biological factors can cause it to malfunction. It also explains how you can use your family history to help predict fertility problems and discusses the preventative treatments you can begin right now. It also shows how the ways in which you and your partner live, work, and play may be affecting your reproductive health, and suggests things you both can do, starting today, to make the most of your most fertile years. In Part One you will also discover:
- New information on how your immune system affects your fertility, and on the power boosters that can save your reproductive health
- How to tell if your job is harming your fertility
- The influence that alcohol, caffeine, and medication, as well as cell phones, computers, and other new technologies may be having on your reproductive health, and the steps you can immediately take to protect your childbearing options
- The kind of birth control to use to safely postpone a pregnancy without harming your fertility
Here, you'll also find a primer on the most common sexually transmitted diseases, with new information on how to keep even the most devastating infections from harming your reproductive health. You'll learn to recognize the early signs and symptoms -- in both yourself and your partner -- and find out the latest treatment options.
And, finally, you 'll learn important new truths about male fertility, along with vital new ways your partner can protect his virility and his potency, while decreasing your risk of miscarriage and protecting your baby from birth defects.
Part Two: Getting Pregnant Right Now -- More Good News
If you are thinking about getting pregnant in the near future, and especially if you are actively trying to conceive right now, Part Two was written for you. It provides the very latest information on the factors that may influence your immediate ability to conceive, and to sustain a healthy pregnancy.
In this section you'll find:
- Breakthrough treatments for preventing miscarriage -- and what you can do before you conceive to reduce your risks
- The links between dieting and conception -- and how to find your ideal fertility weight
- How your fitness workouts may be blocking your ability to get pregnant -- plus the exercises that can help you get pregnant faster
- How stress affects conception
- How to avoid major pregnancy complications
- How to get pregnant fast -- including how sex affects conception
- What you can do to influence the sex of the child you conceive
Want to have a boy? Can't wait to have a girl? We'll tell you how!
In addition, you'll find an exciting new kind of nutritional guide with information on the foods that can increase your fertility and encourage your reproductive health. You will also find all the latest information on the vitamins, minerals, and herbs that can not only influence your ability to get pregnant but help reduce your baby's risk of problems from the moment of conception. You'll even learn how making love on your birthday can give your fertility a secret boost, and may help you get pregnant faster!
Finally, you'll read about the new Fertility Exam 2000, the very latest form of pre-conception counseling that can help ensure your pregnancy right from the start. Included are all the tests and treatments your doctor should be administering to help ensure that any baby you conceive will be healthy right from the start. What's more, with the information provided, you will be able to uncover any potential fertility problems you may not know you have and learn how to correct them before they seriously harm your reproductive health.
Part Three: If You Don't Get Pregnant Right Away -- What to Do
In Part Three you will find the most advanced and most important new technologies developed to help you have a baby, even if you believe you are infertile. The data in Part Three not only will help you understand why you are having a problem getting pregnant, but will offer a multitude of options for solving your problem. Some of what this section offers:
How to tell if you can have a baby long before you try to conceive -- plus how to turn the pregnancy odds in your favor
Superovulation, one of the newest ways for every woman to increase her chances for conception
The surprising truth about fertility drugs, including new information about their safety, and how they can help you have a natural conception
Brand-new time- and money-saving fertility surgeries that require no hospitalization and can help you get pregnant in record time
Because we now know that male fertility is a factor for nearly half of all couples who cannot conceive, this section will also offer the very latest treatments for male fertility, including the brand-new ICSI procedure.
In addition, you'll learn about the astonishing new ways that artificial insemination is helping millions of couples get pregnant, and you'll find information on the breakthroughs that can increase the success of all laboratory-aided conceptions, including in vitro fertilization, and even let you know beforehand which of the new methods is going to be best for you.
You'll also learn about the GIFT procedure and it's newest cousin, called ZIFT, both of which can help you achieve a faster, easier, healthier conception regardless of your age or how long you have been infertile.
Later in this section you will also find the latest information on donor eggs and donor sperm, as well as the new data on embryo freezing. And in a special chapter devoted to the midlife pregnancy you will find all the information you need to help you get pregnant after age thirty-five, including special dietary precautions and the treatments that will and won't help you conceive.
Part Four: Your Personal Pregnancy Planner
In Part Four of this book you'll find a Personal Pregnancy Planner -- a six-month guide that takes you step-by-step through everything you need to do to have a healthy baby, whether you conceive on your own or with laboratory assistance.
Whether showing you ways to protect your fertility from current dangers or helping you restore it from dangers past, the programs in this book were developed to help you have a fast, easy, healthy conception. Not only can you be sure of your ability to get pregnant right now, but you can retain your reproductive options throughout your childbearing years. You have the power to achieve your parenting dreams. Good luck and go for it -- we're on your side!
Copyright © 1991, 2000 by Niels H. Lauersen, M.D., Ph.D., and Colette Bouchez
Cuprins
Contents
PREFACE:
Getting Pregnant in the New Millennium: Dear Mother-to-Be
INTRODUCTION:
The Really Good News About Getting Pregnant
Part I
New Discoveries: What Affects Fertility Most
CHAPTER ONE
HOW YOUR BODY WORKS: THE LATEST NEWS
• The New Conception Chemistry • The Hormones That Help You Get Pregnant • Getting Ready to Get Pregnant • How Your Life Cycles Function • Why You Get a Menstrual Period • How Your Personal Biology Affects Your Fertility n You Can Prevent Infertility
CHAPTER TWO
SEVEN SUPER FERTILITY THREATS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
• Surgical Adhesions (Scar Tissue) • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease • Fibroid Tumors • Ovarian Cysts and PCOD • PMS • Abortions • Ectopic Pregnancy • A Final Thought About Your Fertility
CHAPTER THREE
YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AND YOUR FERTILITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS, THYROID DISORDER, AND MORE
• The Secret Immune Disorder That Destroys Fertility • Endometriosis, Immunity, and Fertility • A Final Thought
CHAPTER FOUR
FINALLY! THE TRUTH ABOUT MALE FERTILITY
• Problem Within a Problem • Understanding Male Fertility: What Every Woman Needs to Know • Seven Super Male Fertility Threats and How to Avoid Them • The Male Fertility Protection Exam • A Final Word About Male Fertility
CHAPTER FIVE
SEX AND INFERTILITY: WHAT EVERY COUPLE NEEDS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW
• STDs: What Are They? Who's at Risk? • How STDs Are Spread • How STDs Can Affect a Woman's Fertility • How STDs Can Affect a Man's Fertility • An STD Primer: The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Diseases and How to Treat Them • HIV, AIDS, and Your Fertility • STDs: Are You at Risk • A Final Word: Safe Sex, Not Fearful Sex
CHAPTER SIX
YOUR FERTILITY FROM NINE TO FIVE: REPRODUCTIVE HAZARDS OF THE WORKPLACE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
• The Workplace and Your Fertility • The Reproductive Hazards: Who Is at Risk n Computers and Your Fertility n Workplace Cautions • Workplace Fertility Protection Guide • Seven Steps to a Safer Workplace • You Are Not Alone!
CHAPTER SEVEN
FERTILITY PROTECTION 2000: A COUPLE'S GUIDE TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
• The Lifestyle Fertility Quiz • The Fertility Protection Update 2000 • Drug Abuse and Your Fertility • How Climate Affects Fertility • The Time to Protect Your Fertility Is Now!
Part II
The Fastest, Easiest Ways to a Safe, Natural Conception
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE PRE-CONCEPTION EXAM 2000: GETTING READY TO GET PREGNANT
• How Pre-Conception Counseling Works • The Personal Facts Your Doctor Needs to Know • The T.H.E. 2000 Physical Exam n The Newest Diagnostic Tests • Testing for Genetic Diseases • The Final Evaluation • Some Final Advice
CHAPTER NINE
BODY FAT, DIETING, AND FERTILITY: HOW YOUR WEIGHT AFFECTS CONCEPTION
• Too Thin to Get Pregnant? • How Your Body Fat Affects Your Fertility • Overweight and Infertile? The New Links n Finding Your Ideal Fertility Weight • Achieving Your Fertility Weight Goals • Enhancing Your Fertility
CHAPTER TEN
FITNESS, STRESS, AND GETTING PREGNANT
• The Body-Fat Connection • Working Out: The Silent Dangers • The Workouts That Can Encourage Your Fertility • How Yoga Can Help You Get Pregnant • Stress, Anxiety, and Infertility
CHAPTER ELEVEN
FERTILITY DIET 2000: THE FOODS THAT ENHANCE YOUR FERTILITY AND PROTECT YOUR PREGNANCY
• The Fertility Power Boost • The Antifertility Foods • Food Additives and Fertility • Caffeine and Infertility • Vegetarian Diets and Your Fertility • A Food Strategy for Getting Pregnant • Fertility Food Plan 2000
CHAPTER TWELVE
MOTHER NATURE'S BOUNTY: ALL-NATURAL WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR FERTILITY
• The Vitamin You Need Most • More Fertility Nutrients • The Fertility Vitamin-Mineral Support Guide • The Fertility Plants • The Herbal "Cocktail" to Boost Fertility • The Helpful Herbs That May Harm Fertility • All-Natural Male Fertility Boosters • Taking the Natural Approach
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
MAKING LOVE AND MAKING BABIES: HOW TO GET PREGNANT FAST
• Predicting Ovulation • Love, Sex, and Getting Pregnant • Sex and Conception • One Dozen New and Time-Tested Ways to Encourage Conception • A Final Word About Getting Pregnant
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
BOY OR GIRL...IS THERE A CHOICE? THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT GENDER SELECTION
• How Gender Selection Works • Tried and True: The Shettles Method of Gender Selection • Sex and Your Baby's Gender • Do Opposites Attract? The Whelan Method • Eat Chocolate -- and Give Birth to a Baby Boy! • The Electricity of Love • High-Tech Gender Selection • Gender Selection
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
PREVENTING MISCARRIAGE: NOW YOU CAN!
• Understanding Pregnancy Loss • Your Immune System and Miscarriage • Four Powerful Immune Boosters to Save Your Pregnancy • Men, Immunity, and Pregnancy • Preventing Pregnancy Loss • Five Medical Breakthroughs That Can Save Your Pregnancy • Dry-Cleaning, Nail Polish Remover, and Miscarriage • Stress and Pregnancy Loss • Exercise and Miscarriage • Orgasm and Pregnancy Loss • How Water Beds Can Cause a Miscarriage • The Skin Treatment That Threatens Your Pregnancy • Miscarriages and Men • Twenty-One Super Easy Ways to Decrease Your Risk of Miscarriage Before and After You Conceive • You Can Stop a Miscarriage • Getting Pregnant Again
Part III
If You Don't Get Pregnant Right Away:
How Science Can Help
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CAN I HAVE A BABY? HOW TO TELL
• How to Test Your Own Fertility • How Your Family History Can Predict Your Fertility • Take Charge of Your Fertility • Your Basic Fertility Exam • The Fertility Blood Tests • If You Don't Get a Period • Reading Your Body Signals • The Postcoital Test for Fertility Rhythm • Visualizing Your Fertility • Under the Microscope • Looking Inside Your Body • Underwater Vision • Where Do We Go from Here? • Seeing a Fertility Expert
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
THE NEW FERTILITY SURGERIES: NATURAL CONCEPTION MADE FAST AND EASY
• Can Fertility Surgery Help You? • The Procedures -- and How They Can Help • The Nonsurgical Way to Save Your Fallopian Tubes • The Fibroid Surgery That Preserves Your Fertility • The Surgery That Saves Your Fertility -- Even After Cancer • If You Decide on Fertility Surgery • Some Final Advice
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
WHEN HE'S THE REASON YOU CAN'T CONCEIVE: THE NEWEST TREATMENTS FOR MALE INFERTILITY
• Understanding Male Fertility • Good Sperm - Bad Sperm • The Male Fertility Exam • Can He Make a Baby ? How to Find Out Fast • The Fertility Blood Tests • Hot Testicles and Infertility • From Zero Sperm Count to Fatherhood in Less Than Sixty Minutes • When Sperm Can't Leave a Man's Body • Restoring His Sperm Flow • The New Testicle Biopsy • Zero Sperm Count -- and You Can Still Get Pregnant • Love on Ice • Restoring Male Fertility by Reversing a Vasectomy • Overcoming Impotence • A Final Word
CHAPTER NINETEEN
SUPER OVULATION AND OTHER NEW WAYS TO A FASTER, EASIER CONCEPTION
• Super Ovulation • The Most Common Fertility Drugs and How They Work • Lupron and Other "Agonizing" Treatments That Help You Conceive • Growth Hormone • Progesterone • Are Fertility Drugs Safe? What You Need to Know • Fertility Drugs and You
CHAPTER TWENTY
THE NEW ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION: NOTHING ARTIFICIAL AT ALL
• Can Artificial Insemination Help You? • Not All Inseminations Are Alike • How Your Body Helps Your Partner's Sperm • Getting Your Body Ready for Insemination • The Insemination Process • Donor Sperm • A Final Word About Insemination
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
THE A.R.T. OF CONCEPTION: THE NEW IN VITRO FERTILIZATION AND HOW IT CAN HELP YOU CONCEIVE
• The A.R.T. of Conception • How In Vitro Fertilization Works • Preparing Your Body for IVF • Preparing Your Partner for IVF • Making Your Baby • When Science Plays Mother Hen • Giving Your Baby Back to You • Confirming Your Pregnancy • Improving Your Pregnancy Rate • The Natural Cycle • Will Your IVF Be Successful? • Ensuring the Health of Your IVF Baby • Improving the Odds of Your IVF • A Final Word
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
THE GIFT OF LIFE -- AND OTHER NEW TECHNOLOGIES
• What Is the GIFT Procedure -- and What Makes It Special • Increasing Your Pregnancy Success Odds • Natural Pregnancy After GIFT • More Conception Options • ICSI • Improving Your Pregnancy Odds • Ensuring Your ICSI Baby • A Final Thought
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
THE SCIENCE OF MOTHERHOOD: DONOR EGGS, FROZEN EMBRYOS, AND MORE NEW WAYS TO HAVE A BABY
• Stopping Your Biological Clock • Your Donor Pregnancy • Selecting a Donor • Getting Pregnant • Bonding to Your Donor Baby • Egg Freezing • Good Eggs -- No Pregnancy • More Pregnancy Options n The New Surrogacy • Motherhood
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
THE MIDLIFE PREGNANCY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• A Woman's Body • You're Only as Old as Your Eggs • Preserving Your Good Health • Your Fertility Exam • Getting Pregnant • IVF After Forty • The GIFT for Women Over Forty • Increasing Your Pregnancy Odds Even More • Protecting Your Pregnancy • Preventing Birth Defects • The Older New Mom
Part IV
Your Personal Pregnancy Planner:
A Six-Month Guide to a Safe and Healthy Conception
PLANNING YOUR PREGNANCY STEP-BY-STEP
RESOURCES
INDEX
PREFACE:
Getting Pregnant in the New Millennium: Dear Mother-to-Be
INTRODUCTION:
The Really Good News About Getting Pregnant
Part I
New Discoveries: What Affects Fertility Most
CHAPTER ONE
HOW YOUR BODY WORKS: THE LATEST NEWS
• The New Conception Chemistry • The Hormones That Help You Get Pregnant • Getting Ready to Get Pregnant • How Your Life Cycles Function • Why You Get a Menstrual Period • How Your Personal Biology Affects Your Fertility n You Can Prevent Infertility
CHAPTER TWO
SEVEN SUPER FERTILITY THREATS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
• Surgical Adhesions (Scar Tissue) • Pelvic Inflammatory Disease • Fibroid Tumors • Ovarian Cysts and PCOD • PMS • Abortions • Ectopic Pregnancy • A Final Thought About Your Fertility
CHAPTER THREE
YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AND YOUR FERTILITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS, THYROID DISORDER, AND MORE
• The Secret Immune Disorder That Destroys Fertility • Endometriosis, Immunity, and Fertility • A Final Thought
CHAPTER FOUR
FINALLY! THE TRUTH ABOUT MALE FERTILITY
• Problem Within a Problem • Understanding Male Fertility: What Every Woman Needs to Know • Seven Super Male Fertility Threats and How to Avoid Them • The Male Fertility Protection Exam • A Final Word About Male Fertility
CHAPTER FIVE
SEX AND INFERTILITY: WHAT EVERY COUPLE NEEDS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW
• STDs: What Are They? Who's at Risk? • How STDs Are Spread • How STDs Can Affect a Woman's Fertility • How STDs Can Affect a Man's Fertility • An STD Primer: The Most Common Sexually Transmitted Diseases and How to Treat Them • HIV, AIDS, and Your Fertility • STDs: Are You at Risk • A Final Word: Safe Sex, Not Fearful Sex
CHAPTER SIX
YOUR FERTILITY FROM NINE TO FIVE: REPRODUCTIVE HAZARDS OF THE WORKPLACE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
• The Workplace and Your Fertility • The Reproductive Hazards: Who Is at Risk n Computers and Your Fertility n Workplace Cautions • Workplace Fertility Protection Guide • Seven Steps to a Safer Workplace • You Are Not Alone!
CHAPTER SEVEN
FERTILITY PROTECTION 2000: A COUPLE'S GUIDE TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
• The Lifestyle Fertility Quiz • The Fertility Protection Update 2000 • Drug Abuse and Your Fertility • How Climate Affects Fertility • The Time to Protect Your Fertility Is Now!
Part II
The Fastest, Easiest Ways to a Safe, Natural Conception
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE PRE-CONCEPTION EXAM 2000: GETTING READY TO GET PREGNANT
• How Pre-Conception Counseling Works • The Personal Facts Your Doctor Needs to Know • The T.H.E. 2000 Physical Exam n The Newest Diagnostic Tests • Testing for Genetic Diseases • The Final Evaluation • Some Final Advice
CHAPTER NINE
BODY FAT, DIETING, AND FERTILITY: HOW YOUR WEIGHT AFFECTS CONCEPTION
• Too Thin to Get Pregnant? • How Your Body Fat Affects Your Fertility • Overweight and Infertile? The New Links n Finding Your Ideal Fertility Weight • Achieving Your Fertility Weight Goals • Enhancing Your Fertility
CHAPTER TEN
FITNESS, STRESS, AND GETTING PREGNANT
• The Body-Fat Connection • Working Out: The Silent Dangers • The Workouts That Can Encourage Your Fertility • How Yoga Can Help You Get Pregnant • Stress, Anxiety, and Infertility
CHAPTER ELEVEN
FERTILITY DIET 2000: THE FOODS THAT ENHANCE YOUR FERTILITY AND PROTECT YOUR PREGNANCY
• The Fertility Power Boost • The Antifertility Foods • Food Additives and Fertility • Caffeine and Infertility • Vegetarian Diets and Your Fertility • A Food Strategy for Getting Pregnant • Fertility Food Plan 2000
CHAPTER TWELVE
MOTHER NATURE'S BOUNTY: ALL-NATURAL WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR FERTILITY
• The Vitamin You Need Most • More Fertility Nutrients • The Fertility Vitamin-Mineral Support Guide • The Fertility Plants • The Herbal "Cocktail" to Boost Fertility • The Helpful Herbs That May Harm Fertility • All-Natural Male Fertility Boosters • Taking the Natural Approach
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
MAKING LOVE AND MAKING BABIES: HOW TO GET PREGNANT FAST
• Predicting Ovulation • Love, Sex, and Getting Pregnant • Sex and Conception • One Dozen New and Time-Tested Ways to Encourage Conception • A Final Word About Getting Pregnant
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
BOY OR GIRL...IS THERE A CHOICE? THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT GENDER SELECTION
• How Gender Selection Works • Tried and True: The Shettles Method of Gender Selection • Sex and Your Baby's Gender • Do Opposites Attract? The Whelan Method • Eat Chocolate -- and Give Birth to a Baby Boy! • The Electricity of Love • High-Tech Gender Selection • Gender Selection
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
PREVENTING MISCARRIAGE: NOW YOU CAN!
• Understanding Pregnancy Loss • Your Immune System and Miscarriage • Four Powerful Immune Boosters to Save Your Pregnancy • Men, Immunity, and Pregnancy • Preventing Pregnancy Loss • Five Medical Breakthroughs That Can Save Your Pregnancy • Dry-Cleaning, Nail Polish Remover, and Miscarriage • Stress and Pregnancy Loss • Exercise and Miscarriage • Orgasm and Pregnancy Loss • How Water Beds Can Cause a Miscarriage • The Skin Treatment That Threatens Your Pregnancy • Miscarriages and Men • Twenty-One Super Easy Ways to Decrease Your Risk of Miscarriage Before and After You Conceive • You Can Stop a Miscarriage • Getting Pregnant Again
Part III
If You Don't Get Pregnant Right Away:
How Science Can Help
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CAN I HAVE A BABY? HOW TO TELL
• How to Test Your Own Fertility • How Your Family History Can Predict Your Fertility • Take Charge of Your Fertility • Your Basic Fertility Exam • The Fertility Blood Tests • If You Don't Get a Period • Reading Your Body Signals • The Postcoital Test for Fertility Rhythm • Visualizing Your Fertility • Under the Microscope • Looking Inside Your Body • Underwater Vision • Where Do We Go from Here? • Seeing a Fertility Expert
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
THE NEW FERTILITY SURGERIES: NATURAL CONCEPTION MADE FAST AND EASY
• Can Fertility Surgery Help You? • The Procedures -- and How They Can Help • The Nonsurgical Way to Save Your Fallopian Tubes • The Fibroid Surgery That Preserves Your Fertility • The Surgery That Saves Your Fertility -- Even After Cancer • If You Decide on Fertility Surgery • Some Final Advice
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
WHEN HE'S THE REASON YOU CAN'T CONCEIVE: THE NEWEST TREATMENTS FOR MALE INFERTILITY
• Understanding Male Fertility • Good Sperm - Bad Sperm • The Male Fertility Exam • Can He Make a Baby ? How to Find Out Fast • The Fertility Blood Tests • Hot Testicles and Infertility • From Zero Sperm Count to Fatherhood in Less Than Sixty Minutes • When Sperm Can't Leave a Man's Body • Restoring His Sperm Flow • The New Testicle Biopsy • Zero Sperm Count -- and You Can Still Get Pregnant • Love on Ice • Restoring Male Fertility by Reversing a Vasectomy • Overcoming Impotence • A Final Word
CHAPTER NINETEEN
SUPER OVULATION AND OTHER NEW WAYS TO A FASTER, EASIER CONCEPTION
• Super Ovulation • The Most Common Fertility Drugs and How They Work • Lupron and Other "Agonizing" Treatments That Help You Conceive • Growth Hormone • Progesterone • Are Fertility Drugs Safe? What You Need to Know • Fertility Drugs and You
CHAPTER TWENTY
THE NEW ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION: NOTHING ARTIFICIAL AT ALL
• Can Artificial Insemination Help You? • Not All Inseminations Are Alike • How Your Body Helps Your Partner's Sperm • Getting Your Body Ready for Insemination • The Insemination Process • Donor Sperm • A Final Word About Insemination
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
THE A.R.T. OF CONCEPTION: THE NEW IN VITRO FERTILIZATION AND HOW IT CAN HELP YOU CONCEIVE
• The A.R.T. of Conception • How In Vitro Fertilization Works • Preparing Your Body for IVF • Preparing Your Partner for IVF • Making Your Baby • When Science Plays Mother Hen • Giving Your Baby Back to You • Confirming Your Pregnancy • Improving Your Pregnancy Rate • The Natural Cycle • Will Your IVF Be Successful? • Ensuring the Health of Your IVF Baby • Improving the Odds of Your IVF • A Final Word
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
THE GIFT OF LIFE -- AND OTHER NEW TECHNOLOGIES
• What Is the GIFT Procedure -- and What Makes It Special • Increasing Your Pregnancy Success Odds • Natural Pregnancy After GIFT • More Conception Options • ICSI • Improving Your Pregnancy Odds • Ensuring Your ICSI Baby • A Final Thought
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
THE SCIENCE OF MOTHERHOOD: DONOR EGGS, FROZEN EMBRYOS, AND MORE NEW WAYS TO HAVE A BABY
• Stopping Your Biological Clock • Your Donor Pregnancy • Selecting a Donor • Getting Pregnant • Bonding to Your Donor Baby • Egg Freezing • Good Eggs -- No Pregnancy • More Pregnancy Options n The New Surrogacy • Motherhood
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
THE MIDLIFE PREGNANCY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• A Woman's Body • You're Only as Old as Your Eggs • Preserving Your Good Health • Your Fertility Exam • Getting Pregnant • IVF After Forty • The GIFT for Women Over Forty • Increasing Your Pregnancy Odds Even More • Protecting Your Pregnancy • Preventing Birth Defects • The Older New Mom
Part IV
Your Personal Pregnancy Planner:
A Six-Month Guide to a Safe and Healthy Conception
PLANNING YOUR PREGNANCY STEP-BY-STEP
RESOURCES
INDEX
Descriere
Revised and updated with 30 percent new material, this classic guide to fertility features new information on a range of treatments and reveals vital facts about techniques that aid conception and help ensure a healthy pregnancy.