- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton; 1 edition (Jan 13 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393320006
- ISBN-13: 978-0393320008
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.7 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
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A must read for those who are experiencing infertility and who wish to create a family, whether through adoption or through medical treatment. Thorough, thoughtful, sensitive...Experiencing Infertility is filled with valuable insights and is written with emotional understanding by two very empathetic individuals who have lived through it all. -- Aaron Britvan, counselor at law, co-chairperson of the adoption committee of the New York State Bar Association
At the outset, the infertile couple needs a plan for the diagnosis and treatment of their condition. Too often, the medical aspects of infertility overwhelm the patient and the emotional issues are ignored. Peoples and Ferguson address emotional demands enabling the couple to carry on both through and beyond the crisis. -- Daniel Kenigsberg, M.D. Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Long Island IVF
Experiencing Infertility provides comfort and insight into the emotional, medical, and financial ordeal couples face when they endure infertility. -- Perry-Lynn Moffitt, co-author of A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss
From their unique perspectives as former patients and professionals who work in the field, the authors have done an outstanding job of educating all of us. No one should go through this crisis without knowing ...Experiencing Infertility. -- Dr. Ellen Miller, physician specializing in infertility
[Ferguson and Peoples] have written a sensitive guide to the emotional trauma of infertility. The authors successfully discuss the decision-making process and emotional roller coaster that medical intervention, pregnancy loss, and adoption can bring and offer sound ideas, resources, and coping methods. -- Science and Technology
At the outset, the infertile couple needs a plan for the diagnosis and treatment of their condition. Too often, the medical aspects of infertility overwhelm the patient and the emotional issues are ignored. Peoples and Ferguson address emotional demands enabling the couple to carry on both through and beyond the crisis. -- Daniel Kenigsberg, M.D. Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Long Island IVF
Experiencing Infertility provides comfort and insight into the emotional, medical, and financial ordeal couples face when they endure infertility. -- Perry-Lynn Moffitt, co-author of A Silent Sorrow: Pregnancy Loss
From their unique perspectives as former patients and professionals who work in the field, the authors have done an outstanding job of educating all of us. No one should go through this crisis without knowing ...Experiencing Infertility. -- Dr. Ellen Miller, physician specializing in infertility
[Ferguson and Peoples] have written a sensitive guide to the emotional trauma of infertility. The authors successfully discuss the decision-making process and emotional roller coaster that medical intervention, pregnancy loss, and adoption can bring and offer sound ideas, resources, and coping methods. -- Science and Technology
Book Description
One of every six couples in America is experiencing infertility, a devastating crisis that affects men and women individually and as a couple. This comforting and informative book addresses the medical, financial, and emotional issues that couples must work through while resolving their infertility. Written in a question-and-answer format, this sympathetic book offers practical advice on how to contend with the emotional ups and downs of infertility-from learning how to communicate feelings more effectively to coping with the losses of failed treatments or miscarriages. Warm and practical, the book is divided into twelve chapters, grouped according to the four stages involved in resolving infertility: crisis, acceptance, resolution and epilogue. Addressing the crisis phase are chapters on communicating effectively in a crisis, viewing infertility through the eyes of a parent, coping with family and friends, dealing with stresses at work while going through medical treatment, dealing with the medical establishment, and working through loss. For the stages of acceptance and resolution the authors offer chapters on deepening one's faith, knowing when to stop medical treatment, and practical advice for couples deciding to live child-free or considering adoption. An extensive section at the end addresses issues and concerns of professionals dealing with infertility patients. In addition, there are self-help exercises and a guide to resources. Originally titled What to Expect When You're Experiencing Infertility in hardcover.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent guide to the emotional challenges,
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This review is from: What To Expect When Youre Experiencing Infertiliy (Hardcover)
I was given a review copy of this book shortly before my own book, The Unofficial Guide to Having A Baby, was going to press. I thought so highly of this book that I asked my publisher to stop the presses and add it to the list of recommended readings in my book.While my book addresses a lot of the medical issues associated with infertility (e.g. causes of infertility, high tech fertility methods etc.), I was only able to touch upon the emotional issues briefly--a subject that Debby Peoples and Harriette Rovner Ferguson handle superbly in their book. They give you "inside advice" on balancing babymaking with your career, coping with the reactions of friends and family, and much more. I struggled with infertility 12 years ago, prior to the birth of my first child. I've never forgotten how painful that time in my life was. I wish I'd had this book then.
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The women in this book are ME,
By Kristina Heller (Manteca, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Experiencing Infertility An Essential Resource (Paperback)
I was browsing through the bookstore and this book caught my eye. I thumbed through it, and could not put it down. I bought it, and read the entire thing in one night.I cried all night. I relate to the women in that book so much. Everything that was said, I have felt. I especially appreciated the section on Secondary Infertility, since that is what I am facing. Most books and other infertility resources don't even acknowledge that Secondary Infertility is a real problem-it makes those with Secondary Infertility feel so alone. If you're looking for a book that helps you cope, helps you know that you are not alone in your struggle with infertility, and really helps you feel validated in your feelings, then I highly recommend this book.
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It's About Time,
By KD Johnson (Huntintgton Station, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: What To Expect When Youre Experiencing Infertiliy (Hardcover)
It's about time a book on the topic of infertility explored the more emotional aspects of this situation. As men and women, when we are confronted with the possibility of infertility, we are thrown to the scientific wolves and sometimes end up feeling like "road kill." Doctors, labs, medicines and experimental procedures can make us feel like modern day Frankensteins. It was so theraputic for me to read this book. Not merely a scientific forum for informative medical information but more importantly, a bible that helped me move forward emotionally. A must read for anyone going through this experience. Well written and heartfelt. Bravo, Harriet and Debby--thank you so much for sharing your wealth of expertise.
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