Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

More than 1 in 10 couples experience infertility, finding themselves in a “desert”—lost and abandoned, hungering and thirsting, praying and waiting—for a child. Discover the direction, nourishment, and faith provided within this spiritual resource for infertile Catholic couples, their families, and friends. Personal reflections from Catholic women struggling with infertility evoke a heartfelt realism, while passages from Scripture and prayers from the Book of Psalms provide the comfort and hope to trust in God, the “Divine Physician.”

Only Ellen Glazer could produce such a wonderful, compelling collection of information, stories, and hope. The structure of the book enables the reader to learn about the emotional aspects of infertility in a calm, reassuring, and personal way. --Alice D. Domar, director, Mind/Body Center for Women's Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Center, Harvard Medical School and author, Healing Mind, Healthy Woman This unique blAnd of informative text coupled with real life experiences provides tremAndous insight into how deeply infertility permeates all aspects of life -- marriage, friAndships, career, and religion just to name a few. The frankness, honesty, and depth of feeling in personal vignettes written by women, men, and caregivers involved in infertility medicine reaches out and touches the reader in a most profound way. -- Andrew J. Friedman, reproductive Andocrinologist One in six couples who attempt to conceive a child struggle with infertility -- severely impacting every aspect of their lives. This thoroughly revised version of the classic book Without Child includes essays, poems, and the very personal stories of courage and triumph from couples who themselves have experienced infertility. Ellen Sarasohn Glazer -- a clinician who specializes in working with infertile couples -- offers practical and sensitive advice for dealing with the many day-to-day challenges of infertility and shows the profound effect infertility has on emotions, relationships, and careers. This comprehensive resource includes new chapters on topics including cancer and infertility and gestational care. Experiencing Infertility offers infertile couples, their families, and caregivers the wisdom and support they need to face one of life's most difficult physical and emotional challenges. 1. Discovering and Assessing the Problem 2. Navigating Through Treatment Motionless 3. The Patient-Caregiver Relationship in Infertility From the Other Side: A Nurse's Perspective 4. Infertility and Marriage 5. Infertility and Family 6. Infertility and FriAndship 7. Infertility and Career 8. Infertility and Religion 9. Pregnancy After Infertility 10. Pregnancy Loss 11. Multiple Births 12. Moving On 13. Adoption 14. Half Genetically Ours 15. Gestational Care 16. Resolving Without Children 17. Cancer and Infertility 18. Secondary Infertility 19. Parenting After Infertility

Understanding and overcoming the leading undiagnosed cause of infertility, miscarriage, menstrual problems, obesity, and hormonal disruption. Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which causes infertility and repeated miscarriage as well as more cosmetic problems, such as obesity that is resistant to normal weight-loss measures. Not surprisingly, women with this syndrome also suffer from depression and damaged self-esteem as a result. Thus far, medical science has had little to offer women with PCOS. In this book, however, leading reproductive specialist Dr. Ronald Feinberg provides a new way of looking at the disorder, linking it to bodywide metabolic irregularities, insulin resistance, nutrition, activity, and stress-a combination of health issues that collectively make up what he has termed "Syndrome O." And this understanding brings new hope for overcoming it. Written in a compassionate, inspirational, and motivational style, Healing Syndrome O discusses the causes and complications of this condition and provides a targeted plan to help women balance and repair their overall health, overcome symptoms, and, especially, restore their fertility.

When infertility painfully interrupted Elizabeth Hagan's plan to start a family, the path of grace offered her another way. Instead of giving birth to a child, she birthed herself instead. Along the way, she learned you can't control how fast your dreams come true, if they come true at all, but you can find grace for embracing your life in the present tense, grief and all. Through her new book Birthed, Elizabeth Hagan offers her story as a companion and guide for living through your own pain and loss. For the one in eight couples who face infertility, you will know you are not alone and a long season of grief does not have to destroy your marriage or your friendships with childbearing friends. For those friends and family members of infertile couples, there are no "one size fits all" answers to a fertility journey-medically, emotionally, or spiritually-and the worst thing you can say is nothing at all. Adoption is never the complete solution to infertility, and through it all, pain can never be fixed, only lived through. So allow grace to help you begin to live today in the present moment.

This work examines the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer. An analysis is made of the array of medical options available to those with fertility problems, and the financial and emotional toll is assessed.

Hannah’s Hope is intended as a guide to assist you in making wise decisions as you struggle through your grief of not yet conceiving, losing a child, or struggling through the adoption process.