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"Infertility Saved My Life: Healing PCOS From The Inside Out exposes the raw teaching moments of Sarah Willoughby's journey to self-love through Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and secondary infertility. Within Infertility Saved My Life, Sarah Willoughby addresses the challenges and heartbreak she experienced while becoming a mum to three amazing children. She writes about her multiple miscarriages, as well as the trauma she endured, so that anyone still...
2) The Big Lie
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A candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood.
Biology does not bend to feminist ideals and science does not work miracles. That is the message of this eye-opening discussion of the consequences of delayed motherhood. Part personal account, part manifesto, Selvaratnam recounts her emotional journey through multiple miscarriages after the age of 37. Her doctor told her she still "had time," but Selvaratnam found
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For 10 percent of women worldwide, the road to motherhood is bumpy, painful, and heartbreaking. For some, it can cause a complete collapse of emotions. This is the reality for those plagued by infertility. In this book, Christina Oberon will help you discover that infertility does not define you! She helps guide you through the rollercoaster of emotions that infertility brings, so you can find inner joy, which rests on hope.
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In our fast-paced society, most workingwomen are so immersed in their vocations that oftentimes there isn't much free time to ponder what to consider when their life transitions to the most important role...that of "Mom". As a career-oriented woman myself, I was surprised that my closest allies, my BFFs and family members who were already Moms, hadn't given me the "lowdown" of what to expect, as well as expert advice on how to react. It is my goal...
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Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the "process" is vitiated from the get-go, i.e., commissioning a woman to bear, birth, and surrender a baby.
Surrogacy undermines a woman's human dignity. It makes her an instrument in other people's project and attacks her equal gender rights. It also objectivizes and denies the rights of the child to be born.
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A story of fertility, feminism, and family
Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood-it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a medical establishment that didn't know what to do with people like them. With no man factoring into their relationship,...
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Fertile is a revolutionary approach to conscious motherhood. Applying visionary concepts to fertility and pregnancy, Pritam Atma shares a beautifully illustrated guide to heal your body, mind, and spirit in preparation for pregnancy and creating an enlightened child. This book opens a doorway into the unknown mysteries of creation.
This book is written for women who are struggling with fertility, want to consciously conceive, and those who are already...
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Reshni Ratnam is an Australian journalist with more than 15 years' experience.
Her journey to motherhood was emotionally challenging and confronting when her daughter Isla was born via an emergency caesarean at 29+1 weeks' gestation. Two-and-a-half years later her son Rohaan was born during the COVID-19 global pandemic at 34+1 weeks' gestation.
Reshni's book is a compilation of stories and letters of inspiration from mothers who have endured...
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I Still Want to be a Mom helps women stop thinking about how badly they want a baby and just get pregnant. Sometimes getting to parenthood isn't as easy breezy as couples are led to believe and women can't help but wonder what's up with their fertility. After all the years spent telling their body not to get pregnant, now they want a baby. Sometimes doctors don't have satisfying answers or solutions, and dealing with all the decisions can be overwhelming...
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For anyone who has been on the roller coaster of infertility, then this book is for you.
The heartache, the grief and the anger of not being able to give birth to a beautiful baby stays with you and can infect every area of your life.
But, it doesn't have to...
My Last BFN takes you on the author's personal journey of the grieving process after giving up on her dream of having children. This is the aftermath of the infertility journey and the healing...
11) Fourteen Years
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Years ago, I was looking for inspirational story to give me hope through my struggle with infertility. Over many years, I tried everything available in the medical field, including nine failed in-vitro attempts. During this process, I was hopeless and trying to keep my head up. I didn't find a book that spoke to my tired soul and provide solutions for my long-term struggle. I promised myself that if i was blessed with a child, i would write a book...
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"What if I never get to be a mother?" When this doubt first takes hold, it can knock you completely off your feet. You feel cheated, frustrated, and no longer sure of your place in society, your family, or your circle of friends. Now... imagine you could spend time with someone who really understands how you feel, who lets you express all the things that once seemed whiny, self-indulgent, or just plain crazy, and who confides that she once felt that...
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Lisa Manterfield was a sensible 32-year-old when she met The One, a man who sparked a passion for tango, an urge to break down closed doors, and a deep-rooted desire to reproduce. Five years later she was a baby addict, hiding her addiction, plotting a maternity ward heist, and threatening anything that got in her way, including her beloved husband and his pesky practicality.
In this gritty, award-winning memoir, Manterfield traces her spiraling...
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An intimate memoir of miscarriage, premature birth, and motherhood from a bold and brilliant new voice in Atlantic Canada
I am the space between motherhood and longing for it, but it's a space that doesn't exist. I can't be both fertile and infertile, our language doesn't allow for it. So, this is the space I have created for myself. This is where I live. Forever fertile and infertile. A mother to six, a mother of one. I am childless, and with child....
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A practical and emotional self-help guide for anyone affected by miscarriage and pregnancy loss, from the co-hosts of the successful podcast, The Worst Girl Gang Ever. Following pregnancy loss, it can feel like you've forgotten how to speak and need to learn a new language. You can tell your story to a room full of people but if no-one speaks this new language, they won't understand. They will try but ultimately, they won't fully grasp what you are...
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"Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced during fertility treatments, explores the force of grief in imagining possible futures, and confronts...
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