This is IVF and other Fertility Treatments: Real-life experiences of going through fertility treatments
158This is IVF and other Fertility Treatments: Real-life experiences of going through fertility treatments
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Overview
Have you recently found out you'll need fertility treatment to get pregnant?
Are you currently preparing to do an IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) cycle? Or maybe you've already had unsuccessful fertility treatment and you're about to start another round.
I'm so sorry that you're having to look to science to help you to have, or increase, your family. It's a shock and also very scary. I know, I've been there too.
It's natural to be excited and, at the same time, anxious and scared. But you are not alone. Wouldn't it be helpful and supportive to read honest, real-life stories from those who have already gone through fertility treatments, such as IUI (intra uterine insemination), IVF and ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection)? All our stories maybe different, but one thing's for sure, we all have the same goal; to get pregnant and to bring our baby home.
This is IVF and other Fertility Treatments is a must-have read, especially if this is your first cycle. But it will still help you if you are on cycle number two, three or four.
When going through fertility treatments, there are physical things you'll do, such as:
• Inject hormones - tough if you don't like needles
• Pop pessaries somewhere you'd rather not think about!
• Have numerous scans (hello Wanda, again!), and blood tests/draws
• Plus, remember stats, facts, dates and so much new information.
However, there's also a part that you can't see, and you won't yet know how it's going to affect you; your emotions and mental health, because:
• Your first cycle is exciting; you're doing something productive and everything is unknown
• You worry every minute, every day about this cycle working
• The extra hormones wreak havoc with your mood - think PMT on speed - and can physically be uncomfortable
• One minute you're Positive Polly, the next minute Negative Nancy appears.
In This is IVF and other Fertility Treatments you'll read:
• That grieving when doing fertility treatment is normal
• The experience of a single mother by choice
• Coping with secondary infertility
• What three different families decided to do with their frozen embryos and
• Lots of advice on taking care of your mental health.
If you know of someone who is going through fertility treatment and you would love to be able to support them but aren't sure what is the best way, this is the perfect book for you. Trust me, they will thank you.
This book has also been written for:
• Patient facing staff who have never had fertility treatment
• Practitioners who are supporting infertile men and women, and
• Health care professionals who are caring for men and women who are pregnant after fertility treatment, because the emotions don't just go away when they are finally pregnant.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781999303549 |
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Publisher: | MFS Books Ltd |
Publication date: | 01/19/2021 |
Series: | This is , #2 |
Pages: | 158 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.34(d) |
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Table of Contents
In This is IVF and other Fertility Treatments you'll be able to read over thirty honestly written short stories covering a whole range of emotions that are felt when planning and/or going through IVF and other fertility treatments. Everyone has a different journey and we are all unique, but the emotions that arise when facing treatment that will decide if you get your take home baby, are the same. The contributors to This is IVF and other Fertility Treatments have all been through fertility treatments, many of them having done multiple cycles. You can read:
The grief of IVF
Imagine if
The truth about IVF
Never apologize
The loss of your embaby
IVF is a treatment for infertility, not a luxury
When IVF fails
Frozen embryos when your family is complete
Juggling IVF and your job
Why male fertility tests are important
The importance of genetic testing
Unconsciously uncoupling?
Was it because of the IVF?
Accepting that fertility treatment is the only way to have a baby
Our fertility treatment story
Going it alone
Sharing my advice on doing IVF treatment
How counselling can help
When IVF doesn't work
That embryo can be a beautiful healthy child
The loss of a cancelled cycle
The importance of your mental health and emotional wellbeing
The financial costs of IVF in the UK
The financial costs of IVF in the U.S
For seventy per cent of people, IVF doesn't work
Focusing on what you can control
Secondary infertility and IVF
The benefits of an IVF planner
I just want to be a mum
The perfect conception vessel
Frozen in hope
Waiting for PGS results
Benefits of IVF affirmations
Things you should know about IVF
Take care of your mental health when doing IVF
Performance anxiety - 3 days it took!
IVF feels like you're doing something
What your partner needs you to know about dealing with IVF
Yoga helped my sense of well being
We've never told anyone we did IVF
Nothing is ever certain when doing IVF
Making babies the hard way
Making changes as a couple changed our IVFoutcome
IVF abroad
Four years and four IUIs ended with divorce