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If you and your partner have received a diagnosis of infertility, you need to know that you are not alone: infertility, especially among men, is on the rise. Even more important, you need a helping hand to lead you through the bewildering, expensive, and sometimes painful medical options and alternative treatments that may let you achieve a successful pregnancy. This essential resource lets you take charge, get started, and determine the best solutions for you. Included in this revealing, helpful guide:

Pages: 116, Paperback, Xulon Press

An updated guide to conception provides new breakthroughs in fertilization and insemination techniques, including information for couples having difficulty achieving a second pregnancy, tips on fertility treatments, and advice on high-risk terms.

Fertile vs. Infertile emphasizes in a very clear way the importance of sexually transmitted infections (STI). In the U.S. alone, about 15 million individuals contract an STI annually. Unfortunately, this field is not given the proper attention by many urologists and gynecologists and by those dealing with infertility. The number of suffering and frustrated patients is therefore extremely high. Young people are rarely informed properly about the high incidence of symptom-free but potentially devastating sexual infections. Hopefully this book will be the badly needed alarm clock for both the lay public and the medical profession.

Dr. Attila Toth's thirty years as a practicing infertility specialist and pathologist have convinced him that the only explanation for the alarming infertility rate, so far out of proportion with natural law, is the increasing presence of contaminating bacteria in the genital tracts of both sexes. In Fertility vs. Infertility, he documents how and why this process has escalated so dramatically over the past few decades of increased sexual activity.

Magnacca journeys into the world of fertility treatments, with many ups and downs. The book helps readers feel less alone in their fertility struggles, and provides "girlfriend to girlfriend" lessons learned that can make the roller coaster of infertility easier.

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Having a child is a cherished dream for most of us. But what happens when nothing happens--or a pregnancy ends in tragedy? Authors John and Sylvia Van Regenmorter share their own experience in When the Cradle Is Empty: Answering Tough Questions about Infertility. With wisdom, compassion, and sound biblical advice, this comprehensive guide helps couples explore their options, get the medical help they need, deal with pressures from family and friends, and protect their marriage.

Who does a woman turn to when, more than anything in the world, she wants to have a child, but her body refuses to cooperate? Sometimes, all you need is a miracle.

In 1998, when thirty-seven-year-old Sandra Watson Rapley and her husband Craig married, both decided that they wanted children right away. Sandra expected some difficulty trying to conceive because of uterine fibroids she had removed years ago. However, she was not prepared for the turbulent-and often times disappointing-road she would have to travel to make her dream a reality. After many failed attempts at drug therapy, ovulation calculation, and in-vitro fertilization, the Rapleys finally learned the devastating truth-fibroids inside Sandra's uterus were preventing a successful pregnancy. Following months of discussion, testing, and counseling, the miracle that the Rapleys were praying for arrived in the form of a surrogate. Their sister-in-law, Victoria, selflessly volunteered to be their embryo's oven, and on August 29, 2001, Victoria gave birth to the Rapleys twin sons.

Intended Parents: Miracles Do Happen is the touching account of author Sandra Watson Rapley's struggle with infertility, through the emotional highs and lows and the exciting time when her dream of having a child is finally fulfilled.

A soul-baring story of the emotional aspects of being an intended parent in a surrogate pregnancy. Fibroids, and the surgery to remove them, left Rapley infertile, with a scarred uterus and fallopian tubes. Things looked grim, writes Rapley in unadorned prose that gives her circumstance a particularly vulnerable quality, until her brother's wife, Victoria, volunteers to be the "oven" for Rapley's fertilized eggs. A valuable frontline story of interest to anyone considering intended parenthood.