Explaining conception to a child can be difficult at the best of times, but a new book tackling the increasingly common issues of IVF has been launched to assist parents. Then There was You – An IVF Story was written by Greenslopes mother Karly Wegner after conceiving her first child through an IVF program, when after a year of being …
In the Know – what no-one tells you about fertility
You will find In the Know a helpful guide along the pathway to becoming a parent. The author, Dr Alice Domar, is is an international pioneer in the relationship between mind and body when it comes to infertility. With her many years of caring for people who have travelled the infertility pathway, Dr Domar is able to clearly explain how …
Overcoming Infertility Book
Written to be as comprehensive as a text-book, as readable as a story, and as useful as a handbook, it joins with the web-site to explain how normal it is to have trouble getting pregnant (understand this and you can make sensible decisions about the reproductive technologies and plan your life) to relate to you what Robert Jansen has written …
The Child Within
In this book the author talks to women who tell of the struggle and sadness of facing infertility or loss through miscarriage and the accompanying merry-go-round of tests, treatment and trauma. While struggling to keep up a brave front, these women plunge to the depths of despair, hating their bodies, and often their partners, and longing for the one thing …
Environmental and Genetic Solutions
Dr. Judy Ford is the founder of Environmental and Genetic Solutions (EGS) and is the world renowned author of GLOW – the principles of healthy ageing and It takes two – reproducing naturally. Dr. Ford provides lectures, consultancy and counselling in areas of natural fertility, healthy ageing (GLOW), law and health that concern genetic and environmental interactions. EGS also specialises …
Battle with the Baby Gods
If you, or someone close to you, have been trying without success to have children and feel isolated or unable to share the experience—overwhelming feelings of loss, inadequacy, resentment or just plain frustration—Battles with the Baby Gods will show you that you are not alone. Amanda Hampson probably knows better than anyone how difficult it is for infertile couples to …
Making Babies the Hard Way
How far would you go to have a baby? Making Babies the Hard Way is a frank account of one couple’s discovery that they cannot have children of their own, and their ensuing struggle through four years of fertility treatment. One in six couples worldwide seek assistance to conceive and 80 per cent of couples undergoing fertility treatment are currently …
Heart´s desire
A story of love….. and longing for a child by Judith Uyterlinde A real life story, told like a novel. A taboo subject, which affects one couple in six: the difficulty of conceiving. A powerful lesson in life, to make you laugh and cry. There are several medical and practical books on infertility and treatments, but first-hand accounts of young …
Swimming Upstream: the struggle to conceive
by David Rawlings & Karen Looi Swimming Upstream goes beyond the mechanics of babymaking into the issues faced by the one-in-six couples who struggle to have a family. This book is for any couple that has ever heard ‘just relax and it will happen’. Co-authored by a man who has been through the struggle (and is also an ACCESS director), …
Sex at 6pm
A personal journey through IVF by Annarosa Berman / published by New Holland Fictionalised memoir In April 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend magazine published an article headlined: Time, ladies: When is the right moment to have children …and why does it matter so much?. The writer, who had her first child at 37, observed that she was surrounded …