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 …
Resources
We have a range of resources for AccessA members: • Information on how to choose an IVF clinic • A patient’s guide to costs • Reviews of the best infertility books to read • Fact sheets on all aspects of infertility – …….medical, emotional and practical. …….These are available to AccessA members only.
A guide to IVF costs
The cost of infertility treatment is not a standard thing as everyone’s treatment will vary, based on a number of variables: • Which clinic you’re attending • Whether or not you’ve got private health insurance • What type of treatment you are receiving • The rebates you can receive from Medicare Please see our FAQs on IVF costs link to …
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 …
IVF Surrogacy
A Personal Perspective by Maggie Kirkman, Linda Kirkman, and Alice Kirkman In May 1988, Linda Kirkman gave birth to her niece, Alice, who was conceived from her mother Maggie’s egg, fertilised by sperm from a donor. Maggie had no uterus and her husband, Sev, had no sperm. It was the first example in Australia (and one of the first in …
Beyond Childlessness
by Rachel Black & Louise Scull Current estimates suggest that around 25% of women in the UK and other English speaking countries who are currently of childbearing age will never have a child. For women, remaining childless can have significant emotional consequences. These may range from an occasional sense of loss, or guilt, to an acute and profound daily sense …