From the Dust Jacket: Today, as many as one out of every six couples dreaming of starting a family is finding that the dream is unexpectedly denied. For couples facing the painful and difficult issues of infertility, the quest to have a child can become desperate and debilitating, affecting almost every aspect of their lives.

Waiting for Baby is the very personal and moving story of one couple’s struggle to have a child. Married for the first time in her late thirties and faced with the tyranny of the biological clock, Mary Earle Chase and her husband felt helpless and obsessed, willing to try almost anything—from acupuncture, to fertility drugs, to consultations with psychics—to get pregnant. The book traces the course of their treatment, providing basic information about the medical interventions most infertile couples undergo. It also illuminates, through their own experience as well as those of other couples, the emotional traumas of infertility and how couples cope with their pain, disappointment, and loss. The story of how the Chases resolved their dilemma through adoption provides an intimate insight into the decision to adopt and the joyous opportunities adoption represents for childless couples.

Beyond the personal perspective, Waiting for Baby offers up-to-date information, advice, and encouragement for couples who face the difficult decisions involved in trying to have a child—either through medical technology or through adoption. Drawing on the experience of other couples and professionals in the field, Mary Chase threads a path through the maze of medical, emotional, and financial choices to help would-be parents ease the impact on their self-esteem, their careers, and their relationships with family, friends, and each other. For those interested in adopting, she examines the new issues surrounding adoption today and offers a positive approach to pursuing it successfully.

The basic premise of the book is that if you truly want to be a parent, you can have a family. Upbeat and inspiring, Waiting for Baby encourages couples to be responsible and aggressive in seeking medical treatment and/or in finding a baby to adopt. Written with humor and compassion, it provides a fresh perspective on a painful problem and offers hope to millions of couples that their dream of becoming parents will come true.

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About the Author: Mary Earle Chase is an author and writer/producer for film and video. She lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband, Bill, and son, Alexander.

From the Dust Jacket: Waiting for Daisy is about doing all the things you swore you’d never do to get something you hadn’t even been sure you wanted. It’s about being a woman. It’s about trying to have a baby. It’s about loss, love, anger, and redemption.

Peggy Orenstein’s story begins when she tells her new husband that she’s not sure she ever wants to be a mother; it ends six years later after she’s done almost everything humanly possible to achieve that goal, from “fertility sex” to escalating infertility treatments to forays into international adoption. Buffeted by one jaw-dropping obstacle after another, Orenstein seeks answers both medical and spiritual in America and Asia, all the while trying to hold on to a marriage threatened by cycles, appointments, procedures, and disappointments. She visits an old boyfriend who now has fifteen children; goes to Tokyo where she meets “parasite singles,” women who are rejecting marriage and motherhood in favor of shopping sprees and foreign travel; and visits Hiroshima where she talks with survivors of the atomic bomb. Orenstein’s saga unfolds just as professional women are being warned and scolded by the media about their biological clocks, and just as infertility has become a boom industry, with over a million women a year seeking treatment. Waiting for Daisy is an honest, wryly funny report from the front, an intimate page-turner that illuminates the ambivalence, obsession, and sacrifice that characterize the lives of so many modern women.

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About the Author: Peggy Orenstein is the author of Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap and Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World. A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Elle, Vogue, Parenting, Discover, MORE, Mother Jones, Salon, and The New Yorker. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Steven Okazaki, and their daughter, Daisy.

After months trying to conceive a child, Jodie Peyton was told by doctors that her dream was not possible. With great persistence, she and her husband desperately searched for an answer. Their journey took them over five thousand miles across the world to Russia, where they discovered her dream through adoption. Waiting for Me is a personal and honest account of the pain and emotional suffering that many couples face with infertility and the adoption process. It is a remarkable story of the presence of a higher power that will inspire readers to have faith, and follow their dreams, no matter what they may be.

Everyone’s journey through infertility is different. Even women who have the same physical problems will have different courses of treatment, different responses, and different emotional ups and downs as they walk this path. But we also have so much in common: the hurt, anger, frustration, pain, sorrow, hope and joy that we have experienced along the way. We are women who have experienced infertility. Some of us have gone on to conceive, others have adopted, and others remain childless. All of us have found peace in the loving arms of our Father God at the end of our journey. We want to share our experiences and thoughts with you. It is our hope and prayer that you’ll be encouraged. This devotional workbook starts with how each woman discovered her infertility, then explores the diagnostic testing pursued, how they processed the official diagnosis, what decisions had to be explored regarding treatment, their experiences during infertility treatment (including pregnancy, miscarriage, and childbirth), and finishes with their experiences in remaining childless, adoption, foster care, child sponsorship, and the emotional healing regardless of the outcome of their infertility journey. Each devotional has a Scripture focus and questions for thought and discussion. Contributors: Julie Arduini, Heidi Glick, Elizabeth Maddrey, Kym McNabney, Paula Mowery & Donna Winters.

From the Dust Jacket: The irrevocable moment in becoming a parent is not the moment you conceive a child; it's the moment you conceive of her. Maybe in your mind she looks partly like you and partly like your husband. Maybe she looks partly like you and partly like some handsome, genius sperm-bank stranger. Maybe she is coffee brown and Peruvian; you are albumen white and Swedish. Maybe she is a he. But whatever your idea of your child, once you have it, once you have thought of her as yours ... nothing can stop you from wanting her.

—from “Heedless Love” by Barbara Jones

With humor, courage, pain, and joy, the writers in this collection of personal essays and fiction share the same dream—the wish for a child. Here they reveal their complicated but mostly successful journeys, whether they involve surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, pregnancy after multiple miscarriages, or adoption. Also included are inspiring accounts of families that defy the traditional definition, from homes with same-sex partners to those with single parents or stepparents.

The first book of its kind, Wanting a Child finally gives voice to the heartbreak, hope, and elation experienced by the many who discover that pregnancy and parenthood cannot be taken for granted.

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About the Author: Jill Bialosky, author of The End of Desire, is an editor at W.W. Norton.

Helen Schulman, author of The Revisionist, teaches in the M.F.A. program at Columbia University.

They both live in New York City with their families.

Jesse Green is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, Premiere, GQ, Philadelphia, Out, Mirabella, and 7 Days, among others. His first novel, O Beautiful, was published in 1992. “Finalizing Luke” is adapted from The Velveteen Father, a memoir that will be published next year.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly: The editors’ Introduction; “Heedless Love” by Barbara Jones (pp. 9-14); “Bringing Home Baby” by Tama Janowitz (pp. 92-100) (the essay was originally published in the October 1996 issue of Vogue, and subsequently collected in Family Wanted: Adoption Stories [2005, Granta Books]); “The Ghost Mother” by Mary Swick (pp. 120-135); “A Love Diverted” by Lynn Lauber (pp. 136-148); “Scarlett O’Hara at the Moonlit Pagoda” by Jennifer Levin (pp. 158-170); and “Finalizing Luke” by Jesse Green (pp. 212-223) (Green also writes about his experience as an adoptive parent in “The Day That Hallmark Forgot,” published in A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents [2005, Riverhead Hardcover]). See also, “Oracles” by Rita Gabis (pp 81-91); and “Fear and Complications” by Michael Bérubé (pp. 200-211).

Secondary infertility is often a “hidden” issue, and couples suffering from the inability to have another wanted child often feel caught in the netherworld between the childless infertile and parents of larger families. Harriet Fishman Simons, a clinician specializing in fertility issues and a support group leader for RESOLVE, an advocacy group for infertile individuals, has been involved in infertility issues for over 20 years. In her book Wanting Another Child: Coping with Secondary Infertility, Simons discusses the plight of the secondarily infertile—the awkwardness of being among infertile couples without children, the pain of watching other families conceive again. The book takes a broad-based look at an issue that is becoming more common as more couples rely on fertility treatments to form their families. Simons weaves personal stories with theory and sociological data. She includes chapters on social and emotional issues (the effects of secondary infertility on the couple as well as friends, family, and coworkers), parenting during secondary infertility issues (helping children cope with their parent’s secondary infertility), and possible resolutions to and strategies for coping with secondary infertility. Simons’s style may be academic, but the information and message is not, and this book is a welcome addition to a new subfield of study. — Ericka Lutz

Moving account of the struggle to adopt a child.

From the Back Cover: Kaye and Craig Halverson assumed they would start their family soon after they were married, but several years passed and their nursery remained empty.

Why was it taking so long for Kaye to become pregnant? Should they seek medical help? Should they adopt?

Kaye began to cringe at the question, “Do you and Craig have any children?” She avoided friends’ baby showers, unable to share in their joy.

She prayed desperately, even angrily.

Was God punishing them?

Did he think they’d be bad parents?

As she began to resolve her crisis, Kaye felt compelled to share her story with other childless, hurting couples.

In an honest, conversational style, she describes her struggle to overcome infertility, offering support and understanding to others facing this crisis.

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About the Author: Kaye Halverson, a former elementary teacher, is now a partner in an interior design firm in Minneapolis. She is a charter member of Minnesota’s RESOLVE, an infertility support group.

Karen M. Hess is director of Innovative Programming Systems, Inc., in Minneapolis. She has written numerous books and articles.

From the Back Cover: THE ONLY GUIDE YOU’LL EVER NEED TO SOLVE YOUR FERTILITY PROBLEMS

Having a baby is the most natural thing we do in life, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. So where do you turn when, after months or even years of trying, you just can’t get pregnant? In What to Do When You Can’t Get Pregnant, world-renowned fertility expert Dr. Daniel A. Potter and Jennifer S. Hanin, both fertility patients themselves, offer a step-by-step guide to the intricate process of having a baby using the latest reproductive technologies. They share insider information on all the important issues and offer essential advice to help you:

• Find a fertility doctor in your area and ensure he’s a good match for you

• Understand every available procedure and choose the one that best suits you

• Adopt a healthy “fertile” lifestyle to increase your chances of conception

• Decide if gender selection technologies such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PCD) and MicroSort will benefit you

• Stay up-to-date on the latest advances in reproductive medicine, including in vitro fertilization (IVF) and extreme procedures like cytoplasmic transfer and ovarian tissue transplant

• Recognize when it may be time to consider egg or sperm donation, surrogacy, adoption, or other alternatives, and much more.

Complete with stories from couples who have traveled this path and smart advice on handling emotional issues caused by the frustrations of infertility, What to Do When You Can’t Get Pregnant is the only guide you will ever need to navigate the complicated maze of technology and science leading to parenthood and make informed choices about your treatment, family, and future.

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About the Author: Daniel A Potter, MD, FACOG, is a world-renowned reproductive endocrinologist and practice director of the internationally acclaimed Huntington Reproductive Center Medical Group in California. Dr. Potter is a frequent speaker at numerous hospitals, conferences, and associations, including The American Society for Reproductive Medicine and The American Fertility Association. An advocate for women’s health care, Dr. Potter also serves as medical director of MicroSort West, director of reproductive medicine and surgery at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, and assistant clinical professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Potter and his wife live in Southern California with two daughters conceived through in vitro fertilization.

Jennifer S Hanin, MA, is a freelance journalist and the mother of twins conceived through in vitro fertilization. Ms. Hanin began her career in radio and television before assuming public relations and marketing roles for major corporations including Compaq, Honeywell, and RE/MAX. She holds an M.A. in Public Relations from the University of Houston, and is author of a master’s thesis: Public Relations as Negotiation: a case study of the Dow Corning Corporation in the silicone-gel breast implant controversy. She has a social service background working with parents and children, and holds a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from Texas Tech University. Ms. Hanin lives in southern California with her husband and daughters.

As would-be parents cycle through the adoption process, they balance anxiety and fear with the life-altering decision of adoption. The emotional toll of this dance can be completely overwhelming and can confuse parents while navigating the decisions of how to expand their families. Drawing on extensive research and the author’s own experience of being adopted, What to Expect When You’re Adopting does not gloss over the realities of the adoption process, but rather leads parents through the many stages and emotional aspects involved and offer practical and sensitive advice allowing you to:
• Make crucial decisions with confidence
• Build a strong foundation for your family
• Separate the myths about adopted children from the realities
• Discover the key to healthy attachment with your child
Dr. Palmer will also deal with the issues of single-parent adoption, infertility and, unusually, the option of remaining childless.

From the Dust Jacket: One of every six couples in America is experiencing infertility, a devastating crisis that affects men and women individually and as a couple. This comforting and informative book addresses the medical, financial, and emotional issues that couples must work through while resolving their infertility.

Warm and practical, the book is divided into twelve chapters, grouped according to the four stages involved in resolving infertility: crisis, acceptance, resolution and epilogue. Addressing the crisis phase are chapters on communicating effectively in a crisis, viewing infertility through the eyes of a parent, coping with family and friends, dealing with stresses at work while going through medical treatment, dealing with the medical establishment, and working through loss. For the stages of acceptance and resolution the authors offer chapters on deepening one’s faith, knowing when to stop medical treatment, and practical advice for couples deciding to live child-free or considering adoption. An extensive section at the end addresses issues and concerns of professionals dealing with infertility patients. In addition, there are self-help exercises and a guide to resources.

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About the Author: Debby Peoples is a past president of Long Island RESOLVE (the national support organization for infertile individuals) and a founder of A Woman’s Place, a center for counseling and support. Peoples lives with her husband and two children on Long Island.

Harriet Rovner Ferguson is a psychotherapist who runs groups and provides individuals and couples counseling for infertility. She has published articles on the emotional aspects of infertility and has conducted workshops for professionals working in the field. Ferguson is a member of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She lives with her husband and two children on Long Island.

Both authors lead training for medical residents and offer workshops on the emotional aspects of infertility.

From the Back Cover: You’ve waited, you’ve cried, you’ve prayed ... and still your parenting dreams havent turned out the way you’d hoped.

When the Cradle is Empty is a compassionate book with answers for couples dealing with this deeply personal heartache. Authors John and Syivia Van Regenmorter share their experience and those of others to help you explore your options, get the medical help you need, deal with pressures from family and friends, and protect your marriage.

Whether you’re dealing with primary or secondary infertility, miscarriage, adoption options, or living positively as a family of two, you’ll find comfort, wisdom—and above all, sound biblical advice—in this essential resource.

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About the Author: After serving in three pastorates, John and Sylvia Van Regenmorter live near Grand Rapids, Michigan, where John is the chaplain for Bethany Christian Services, one of the world’s largest Christian adoption and family services agencies. He and Syivia also serve as co-directors of Stepping Stones, Bethany’s ministry for infertile couples. The Van Regenmorters have co-authored Dear God, Why Can’t We Have a Baby? as well as many magazine articles.

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By the Same Author: Dear God, Why Can’t We Have a Baby? (with Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., M.D.) (1986, Baker Book House) and Embryo Donation and Embryo Adoption: Loving Choices for Christians (2007, PublishAmerica).

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 14: Are You Ready to Adopt? (pp. 139-152).

From the Back Cover: Where does a couple turn when they discover they are unable to bear children of their own?

Ray and Rebecca Larson faced that question and found few answers available for the Christian couple. This book is the result of their experience and their desire to help others deal with the dilemma of infertility. Writing from the perspective of both husband and wife, the Larsons share their private struggles and personal victories.

Your heart will thrill to the message of hope and encouragement presented in this practical and heartwarming book.

When the Womb is Empty provides:

• the options available to childless couples

• the medical reasons for infertility

• a complete guide to agency adoption procedures

• guidelines for independent adoption

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About the Author: Ray and Rebecca Larson have pastored for over eleven years. Prior to their current senior pastorate, they birthed a singles ministry that grew to over 800 meeting weekly. The local church they have led for the past four years has also experienced remarkable growth and life. The Larsons travel nationwide sharing the principles for victorious living found in Jesus Christ. They are also the authors of several other books.

The choice for most of us is not whether to have children, but when. So how do you cope with the discovery that there is no choice? How do you make a life without children? How do you grieve for the child that was never born? When You Can’t Have a Child suggests many possibilities for living rewarding and fulfilling lives without children.

Often enduring years of heartache, couples with infertility number over 7.3 million. Enduring the daunting difficulties of treatment is something few women are prepared for. Based on the personal stories of 200 women determined to overcome infertility, this surprisingly upbeat survivors’ guide gives the kind of hard-won wisdom essential to making it through the process. Not only does the book detail coping strategies, it also presents tips for strengthening stressed relationships and addresses the unique needs of single women and lesbians. An essential guide for women and couples, friends and family, and health care providers and therapists, this book offers the solace and strength needed to prevail even after years of struggle.

From the Publisher: Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance of using baby monitors, the more obviously intrusive use of home drug tests on teenagers, or the way people in public feel free to judge and comment on the family composition of others, monitoring goes on all the time—and even (or maybe especially) when there seems to be no monitoring going on at all.

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About the Author: Margaret K. Nelson is Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. Her recent books include Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America (with Joan Smith; University of California Press, 1999) and The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America (Routledge Press, 2005). She is currently completing a book that is tentatively titled Parenting out of Control: The Roots and Dynamics of Child Rearing among the Professional Middle Class (New York University Press, forthcoming).

Anita Ilta Garey is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Weaving Work and Motherhood (Temple University Press, 1999) and co-editor (with Karen V. Hansen) of Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (Temple University Press, 1998). Her current project is a co-edited volume (with Karen V. Hansen) of essays organized around the concepts of Arlie Hochschild (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). She lives in Rhode Island with her partner, her granddaughter TyAnn, and their two cats.

Heather Jacobson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is the author of Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008).

Rosanna Hertz is Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wellesley College. She is the 2010 President of the Eastern Sociological Society. Her recent books are Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home (edited with Nancy L. Marshall; University of California Press, 2001). She enjoys browsing mom websites and family blogs.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 4: “Interracial Surveillance and Biological Privilege: Adoptive Families in the Public Eye” by Heather Jacobson; and Chapter 8: “Turning Strangers into Kin: Half Siblings and Anonymous Donors” by Rosanna Hertz.

This journal is an invaluable tool to help you manage both the emotional and practical sides of your fertility journey. Each of the ten sections includes worksheets, a notebook partition explaining how to use the worksheets, and, where appropriate, suggested readings and websites for further information. The sections are: charting your fertility signs; daydreaming of your child; natural fertility treatments; fertility decision making; managing friends and family; medical fertility intervention; doctor’s appointments; grief/pregnancy loss; money, money, money; and success! Wishing for a Baby is a unique way keep track of your quest for a child.

From the Back Cover: Without a Doubt is the compelling and heartfelt story of Fiona Whyte and Seán Malone’s quest to have a family together in Ireland. Their unrelenting efforts, first with IVF, then adoption, and finally and successfully through surrogacy with a clinic in India, expose the shortcomings of the current Irish legal system relating to these deeply emotional issues and their heart-breaking human consequences.

Written with profound honesty, Fiona and Seán’s personal story follows the couple through their extraordinary journey that led, ultimately, to the successful birth of twins. Their story highlights the dire need for new legislation to provide for and protect Irish parents and their children bora through surrogacy, and explores the complex legal, ethical and social issues created in this legal vacuum.

Without a Doubt is the emotional story of one couple’s dream of having a family, a damning indictment of the inadequacies of the Irish adoption system, and the urgent need for surrogacy legislation in Ireland today. In Fiona’s own words: “In the eyes of the Irish state I do not exist.” Only now, after three years, has Fiona been recognised as the legal guardian of her twins in what is a landmark judgement in Irish legal history.

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About the Author: Fiona Whyte and Seán Malone live in Miltown Malbay, west Clare, with their children. Their efforts to adopt and then travel to India to seek surrogacy were the subject of RTE’s Her Body, Our Babies. They are part-time farmers and are keenly interested in GAA football and hurling.

From the Back Cover: Without Child helps childless couples face the facts and emotions of infertility and miscarriage; the author biblically and compassionately discusses adoption, “childfree” living, and such ethical matters as medical insemination.

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About the Author: Martha Stout, currently the public relations director of Gordon College, has coauthored Zondervan’s Christian Women at Work.

From the Dust Jacket: Without Child brings scope and depth to a subject that has long been misunderstood. Weaving rich materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology with Laurie Lisle’s own and other personal stories, this groundbreaking book does what no other has done before—presents childlessness in a multifaceted and positive light.

Most women grow up thinking they will become mothers. And many do follow that path. But for those women who are willingly or unwillingly without children, childlessness is a way of life that many of them must constantly defend. Without Child explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness, what it means for women and society, and reminds us of how women can and do embrace this choice.

Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth century social reformers. However, like other aspects of women’s history, this tradition has been forgotten and, in the process, maligned. Without Child brings childless women out of obscurity and places them back in women’s history.

Without Child also challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the life-affirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman’s rejection of the maternal instinct. It also explores the childless woman’s relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body, and to old age.

In the shadow of a culture that claims to adore the child, Without Child brings a long forbidden topic into the light. Wide-ranging, yet intimate, philosophical, yet clear-sighted, this important book will reassure millions of women that they are not alone, not unusual, and, in fact, are part of a long and honorable tradition.

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About the Author: Laurie Lisle is the author of four other books besides Without Child: two biographies of women artists, a history of a girls school, and a memoir from the point of view of a gardener. Raised in Rhode Island, she lives with her husband in Litchfield County, Connecticut and in Westchester County, New York.

From the Dust Jacket: For most couples, having children is a natural event in the course of their lives. But for one in six, building a family becomes a painful process both physically and emotionally. These couples struggle with infertility—a medical condition that has a major impact on every aspect of their lives.

Without Child addresses the concerns of infertile couples, their families, and their caregivers. It provides infertile couples with information, support, advice, and confirmation that they are not alone.

Covering the entire process these couples face, the book discusses diagnosis, treatment, and emotional reactions; the impact of this crisis on relationships, careers, and religious beliefs; and other issues such as pregnancy loss, secondary infertility, adoption, childfree living, and pregnancy and parenting after infertility.

This book touches upon all the treatment options currently available to infertile couples, including medical and surgical interventions, as well as donor insemination and the new reproductive technologies. The book also explores the cost of these alternatives—in physical, emotional, and financial terms.

In addition to supplying important information, the book offers a wide range of personal accounts. In their own words, men and women share the trying times they face in the long path from first attempts at conception to the resolution of their infertility—whether it is in childbirth, adoption, or a choice to remain childfree.

Without Child is a ground-breaking book, providing facts, useful advice, and a compassionate look at the entire process of infertility treatment today. It will prove valuable to everyone who deals with the problem of infertility—friends, relatives, and most of all, the would-be parents who struggle courageously to fulfill their dreams.

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About the Author: Ellen Sarasohn Glazer is a clinical social worker in private practice working with individuals and couples experiencing infertility and/or exploring adoption. She is also on the staff of the psychiatry department at the Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has been involved for many years with RESOLVE, Inc., as a past board member and current active member. She is a group leader for the Bay State Chapter of RESOLVE, Inc., facilitating both pre-adoption and infertility support groups. In addition, she is the author of several articles on parenting. Ms. Glazer lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her two daughters, Elizabeth and Mollie.

Susan Lewis Cooper is a psychologist and Codirector of Focus Counseling and Consultation, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works with individuals, couples, and families. After completing her doctoral dissertation at Boston University in 1979 on the emotional effects of infertility, she became actively involved with RESOLVE, Inc., and has served as a national board member for the past five years. She is a support group leader for RESOLVE of the Bay State, and has worked with individuals and couples experiencing both primary and secondary infertility. She is the coauthor of Preparing, Designing, and Leading Workshops: A Humanistic Approach (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980). Dr. Cooper lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, Marc, and two children, Seth and Amanda.

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Compiler’s Note: The differences between the original and the revised edition, which the author explains and clarifies in an Introduction, are such that it would probably be best to regard the latter as an updated rather than simply a revised edition.

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About the Author: Susan Treiser is currently co-director of IVF New Jersey in Somerset, New Jersey. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as well as a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons, Matt and Adam.

Robin K. Levinson is a free-lance medical writer and editor with more than thirteen years in the newspaper field. The winner of some thirty national and state journalism awards, Ms. Levinson also teaches writing classes. She became pregnant after battling infertility for more than two years. She is currently researching a book on osteoporosis. She lives with her husband and daughter in New Jersey.

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Compiler’s Note: The authors address adoption exclusively as a last resort, when all other options have been exhausted. See, particularly, pp.15-16.

A sourcebook on the problems of, and treatments for, infertility, provides guidelines for selecting a specialist, explains the standard laboratory tests, discusses emotional stress and infertility, and includes numerous self-tests.