Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey

Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey

by Heather Huhman
Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey

Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey

by Heather Huhman

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Overview

This indispensable, comprehensive, and accessible reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey.

Author Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage of the process—from knowing when to seek medical advice to parenting after infertility, and everything in between. There's the medical nitty gritty: getting a diagnosis (or not); selecting a fertility clinic that's right for you; understanding IUI and IVF and genetic testing; a comprehensive list of medications and their side effects, and much more. There are emotional high and lows: staying hopeful while managing grief and depression, maintaining and strengthening your relationship, and navigating religious and ethical concerns. And then there is the practical and often complicated questions around affording treatments, dealing with your  workplace (including the military), and everything you need to know about insurance and fertility treatments.

Stronger Than Infertility breaks down complicated clinical information and expert medical advice from top specialists in the field. The book includes first-person stories and hard-won advice from women who have been down this long and often painful road (Huhman included) and offers a clear-eyed look at the emotional and psychological landmines that come with the journey. The result is a book that inspires as much as it educates and is a much-needed source of support and inspiration for readers hungry for understanding and hope.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523504329
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Publication date: 08/08/2023
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 638,576
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Heather Huhman is an infertility coach who helps people navigate the complicated world of fertility treatments and other paths to parenthood. She is also the host of Beat Infertility, a podcast where she gets real about infertility, empowers listeners to take back control, and provides them with hope for the future. Beat Infertility currently has approximately 45,000 listeners each month and has received more than 2.5 million listens to date. She lives in Maryland with her husband and daughter.

Table of Contents

Introduction  

THE MEDICAL/PHYSICAL NITTY GRITTY
0 How to Be a Self-Advocate
1 Infertility 101
2 Finding a Fertility Clinic
3 Getting a Diagnosis
4 Understanding Genetics
5 Introduction to Fertility Medications    

PATHS TO PARENTHOOD
6 Timed Intercourse and IUI
7 IVF
8 Preparing for Treatment
9 Let's Talk Multiples
10 Donor Eggs, Sperm and Embryos
11 Surrogacy
12 Adoption
13 Child-Free    

FEELINGS  
14 Emotions
15 Stronger than Infertility
16 Maintaining and Strengthening Relationships
17 Miscarriage and Recurrent Loss
14 Grief and Depression During Infertility
18 Religion and Ethics    

THE PRACTICAL STUFF
19 Insurance
20 Affording Family-Building
21 Infertility at Work
22 Navigating in the Military      

LIFE AFTER INFERTILITY
23 Pregnancy After Infertility
24 NICU
25 Depression and Anxiety After Infertility
26 Parenting
27 Advocating for Benefits and Others 
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