From the Back Cover: There’s noting like adoption to make a grown man cry. Repeatedly.

“They called Svetlana tonight and told her we have to go to America and wait sixty days for you. Sixty days! I punched the wall. I paced the room like an animal. I looked at your diapers and your book and I cried angry tears. I can’t leave you like this. I miss you already.”

Two ingredients are necessary for international adoption—domestic logistics (read: mundane) and foreign logistics (read: insane). The two adoptions we’ve completed featured extra doses of both.

The domestic details are fairly predictable: endless forms, cash, home studies, cash, bureaucratic red tape, cash... you get the picture. Though tedious, the details manage to be nerve-wracking—will we make the “definitely parent material” list?

Overseas, things in our country of choice (Ukraine) happen at extreme speeds—extremely slow (We have to wait thirty days for a court date?!) or extremely fast (We’re being picked up in three minutes?!). We begin to wonder if we’re capable of surviving this foreign land, much less bringing home a local to raise as our own.

Throw in sleepless nights, dark orphanage halls, infertility, and the prayers of the saints—and you have international adoption in the real world. Tristan Volodymyr and Maxim Dmitri are our pride and joy. Hello, I Love You is the story of how they came to be ours....

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About the Author: Ted Kluck is coauthor of Why We’re Not Emergent and author of Facing Tyson, 15 Stories, Paper Tiger, and The Reason for Sports. His award winning writing has also appeared in ESPN the Magazine, Sports Spectrum Magazine and on ESPN.com’s Page 2. An avid sports fan, he has played professional indoor football, coached high school football, trained as a professional wrestler, served as a missionary, and taught writing courses at the college level. He currently lives in Michigan with his wife and children.

From the Back Cover: Each year donor insemination (DI) offers a pathway to parenthood for the hundreds of thousands who turn to family-building alternatives. Although DI is considered as often as adoption, couples facing male infertility, as well as single women and lesbian couples, have had few places to turn for information about this method, which has been shrouded in secrecy.

In Helping the Stork, parents-to-be, as well as friends and family, doctors, and counselors, can explore the choices and challenges raised by this alternative to overcoming childlessness. This comprehensive handbook moves through each step of the process: reaching a solid decision about whether donor insemination is the best choice for a family’s future; handling the difficult issue of privacy; selecting a donor and getting started; and learning to thrive as a family meeting DI’s added challenges. Full of wisdom from medical and mental health experts, Helping the Stork is also enriched with stories from many families who share their insights and experiences.

This book is a reassuring, supportive, and helpful guide that no one considering or going through the process of donor insemination should be without.

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About the Author: Carol Frost Vercollone, M.S.W., became the first clinical social worker to join the staff of the national infertility organization RESOLVE, and currently offers workshops for those involved with donor insemination.

Heidi and Robert Moss have two children conceived with the help of a donor, and share their experiences throughout the book. Heidi created a DI hotline for a RESOLVE chapter, and earned her degree in social work in order to counsel parents to be. Robert is a college biology professor and contributor to both science and education journals.

Discusses the controversial topic of human reproduction technology by examining the ethical aspects used to help infertile couples have children.

From the Back Cover: For couples who want a family, infertility—the inability to have a baby—can be a crushing blow. While modem medicine has more ways to treat infertility than ever before, some people question the ethics involved. In High-Tech Babies: The Debate Over Assisted Reproductive Technology, author Kathleen Winkler describes the amazing techniques available to help infertile couples, including intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy. She also looks at even more cutting-edge methods that may be available in the future. Winkler examines the different arguments over assisted reproduction in order to help readers form their own conclusions about this controversial subject.

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About the Author: Kathleen Winkler holds a master’s degree in journalism from Marquette University. Her previous books for Enslow Publishers, Inc., include Cosmetic Surgery for Teens: Choices and Consequences and Bullying: How to Deal With Taunting, Teasing, and Tormenting.

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About the Author: Brian Kearney Holds a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley. He spent seven years doing scientific research in genetics and molecular biology. His work has been published in various scientific journals, including Nature, as well as in books written for scientific audiences. Since leaving the university, Dr. Kearney has worked as an educator and writer for a number of agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and for several companies in the biotech and pharmaceutical fields. His first book written for a general readership, The HIV Drug Book, was published in 1995.

From the Publisher: Millions of women go through life hiding or denying the feelings that result from the loss of a pregnancy through miscarriage or abortion, the inability to conceive, giving up a child for adoption or the choice not to have children. Roughly 75% of women in the U.S. fall into one or more of these categories of missed motherhood, although many have a child at some point. Rather than being able to explore and express their feelings and receive the support they need to integrate their losses and create joyful lives, these women often suffer in silence, and so does our entire society. The authors two sisters use their own experiences, along with those of 12 other women, as a starting point for a much larger story. Their healing journeys are followed by specific steps that readers can take to create a culture of understanding and support so countless women can move out of the closet, grieve their losses, experience their wholeness and move into joy.

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About the Author: Kani Comstock was training as a research scientist when she first experienced missed motherhood. Her life then took a different course. She has lived and worked in Japan, traveled widely especially in the Pacific region, designed cultural and educational exchange programs, developed and directed four organizations including the Hoffman Institute, and wrote a prior book, Journey into Love. For the last few decades, Kani has been a Hoffman Process Teacher and Coach. Throughout life, she has been fascinated with exploring the unknown, striving to understand why we do what we do, and creating programs that enable us to grow into wholeness. She lives in Ashland, OR.

Barbara Comstock studied East Asian cultures, then earned an MS and an MFA in textile art and sculpture. Making art in Nepal, she also assisted on a feature-length documentary filmed at a Buddhist monastery. After years of designing and producing custom clothing and making and showing her art, she had a life-changing experience and joined the Hoffman Institute. Barbara has delighted in designing and directing programs, teaching in, training teachers for and coaching graduates of the Hoffman Process. It has never been her priority to have children. She lives with her husband, who has been her partner for 25 years, in Ashland, OR.

From the Back Cover: One in six couples will experience the agony of infertility. Approximately 50 percent of those couples will eventually conceive and carry to full term ... 50 percent will not.

Whether an infertile couple eventually has a child or not takes second place to the agony of waiting, to the pressure of coping with a daily grief that affects every area of a couple’s life—from career decisions, to the marriage relationship, to faith in God’s wisdom and compassion.

How a couple faces this crisis can mean the difference between times of destruction and bitterness or times of emotional maturity and spiritual growth. A Hope Deferred is a Christian couple’s guide to coping positively with the wait. It is a book that voices gut-level emotions while offering hope and encouragement in a practical way.

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About the Author: Jill Baughan is a freelance writer and instructor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Although she and her husband had a birth child in 1981, they have struggled most of their married life with infertility. “I know the desperation the infertile couple feels. I’ve been there. And, in many ways, as a result of our current struggle with secondary infertility, I am there. I know what hurts. But I’ve found what helps. And that’s what I want to share with my readers.”

At 24 Aly was diagnosed with breast cancer while trying to conceive her first child. After 3-1/2 years of treatment, which included chemotherapy, bi-lateral mastectomy, radiation, more than four surgeries, Aly was deemed cancer free! Infertility would be the next battle Aly faced. This story of hurt, healing, hope and perseverance will surely be a blessing to you or someone you know that is in need of a book about hope!

From the Back Cover: Infertility affects as many as one in five American couples—but to the couple trying to have a baby, infertility is a deeply personal, individual matter. The infertile couple will have no trouble finding books that describe in dry medical jargon what treatments are available and how they work. How to Be a Successful Fertility Patient is the first book to speak to the very real emotional and practical aspects of infertility treatment today, telling what treatment feels like from the patient’s point of view. This is the book that will help the couple to decide which course of action is best for them.

Peggy Robin interviewed more than one hundred infertility patients for this book, and you will benefit from their trials and errors, as well as their successes.

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About the Author: Peggy Robin’s experience as a two-time successful fertility patient laid the groundwork for this book. She is a committed community activist and author of several books, including Saving the Neighborhood and Outwitting Toddlers. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two daughters.

The author is an infertility counselor as well as a psychiatric nurse and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology. Her goal in this paperback book is to treat the reader like one of her infertility patients by offering empathy and comfort. She wants to give readers methods to becoming their own best counselor. Information in her book is designed to inform the reader of common feelings and problems between individuals, couples, friends, and family associated with infertility. About the Author: Joyce Sutkamp Friedeman, an infertility counselor and psychiatric nurse, holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Social Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She counsels infertile clients in her private practice in Cincinnati. In addition, she consults to fertility centers in the Greater Cincinnati area, with clients who choose assisted reproductive technologies, including the use of donor gametes. Joyce formed the first infertility support group with the Greater Cincinnati RESOLVE, Inc. Chapter (a local, state and national organization which provides support and information to the infertile population as well as to interested health care providers).

From the Dust Jacket: In How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting, twenty writers share their stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, premature delivery, giving up a child for adoption, and other related losses. So many of us hear these stories only after we live through a loss of our own. This book raises a question: is that the only time to have the conversation.

With a foreword by Kim Jernigen, this collection picks up where other pregnancy books leave off and offers diverse, honest, and moving stories that can guide us when the unforeseen happens.

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About the Author: Award-winning authors Jessica Hiemstra and Lisa Martin-Demoor have been co-conspirators for a long time—from finding great shortcuts on their bikes during university to navigating the long, hard roads of grief together. They still love going for walks side by side, whenever geography allows it.

Poet and essayist Maureen Scott Harris was born in Prince Rupert, grew up in Winnipeg, and lives in Toronto. She has published three collections of poems: A Possible Landscape (Brick Books, 1993), Drowning Lessons (Pedlar Press, 2004), which won the 2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and Slow Curve Out (Pedlar Press, 2012). Harris’s essays have won the Prairie Fire Creative Non-Fiction Contest (2006), the Sparrow Prize for Prose (2008), and the WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize (2009).

Gail Marlene Schwartz is a writer and performer living in Montreal. Recent publications include “Pack the Car, Honey” (GO Magazine), “A Few Good Men” (Gay Parent), and most recently her play Crazy: One Woman’s Search for Sanity, in the anthology Hidden Lives, published by Brindle & Glass.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, “Opening the Griefcase” by Maureen Scott Harris (pp. 135-148) and “Loving Benjamin” by Gail Marleen Schwartz (pp. 208-214).

A world-renowned fertility expert tells readers what really works, what doesn’t, and why. Dr. Silber follows his breakthrough bestseller How to Get Pregnant with this guide to the latest medical treatments and techniques for getting pregnant.

From the Back Cover: Shipping chilled semen is an inexpensive and effective alternative to sperm banks. This book explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, etc., how to determine a recipient’s fertile time, prepare and ship chilled semen, inseminate, test for pregnancy, protect privacy, etc. It explains how to predict ovulation with the OPK (ovulation prediction kit), basal temperatures, changes in cervical mucus, changes in the position of the cervix, mittelschmerz (ovulation pains), ferning, or the Ovacue. It explains what to do when the unexpected, such as two ovulations in one cycle, happens, and summarizes key dates in the woman’s reproductive cycle. It explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, and other images the contents of the shipping kit and how to collect semen, prepare for shipping, and ship it. Discusses in detail how to ship semen overnight with express mail carriers such as UPS or FedEx, including many problems that arise and how to deal with them, such as what to do when you need to deliver weekends or holidays, or when carriers do not deliver. It explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, and other images what semen should appear like when the recipient receives the samples and how to evaluate the semen for viability with a microscope and how to inseminate with a syringe, speculum, catheter, or Softcup. It explains how to read home pregnancy tests with many pictures of test results.

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About the Author: I am an admin on a free internet sperm donor group. I am also a donor with dozens of kids. Women looking for a free donor often ask the same questions. So do men who want to be a donor. I write the same answers many times. No doubt people asking the questions can’t find the answers later. So I collected in one convenient location all the answers to the questions people ask most frequently. Good luck to all in your journey and I hope this book helps you achieve your goals.

From the Back Cover: He’s the man of your dreams.

But he doesn’t share your dream of having a child.

He seems to have all the makings of a great dad: He’s kind, fun, and thoughtful—and you’ve even seen him goof around and play with his nieces and nephews. But what do you do when he says, “I’m just not ready to be a father”—and you're ready to start a family? In I Want a Baby, He Doesn't, authors Donna Wade—who wanted a baby when her husband didn’t—and licensed marital therapist Liberty Kovacs, answer your most worrisome questions, including how to:

• Begin those difficult conversations about having a baby

• Deal with personal and practical challenges—from money to fertility

• Understand and show respect for his emotional concerns

• Resolve the conflict amicably—for both of you

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About the Author: Donna J. Wade has successfully faced the challenge addressed in I Want a Baby, He Doesn't with her husband. She first told her family’s story in a self-published book. Through extensive world travel, Donna has performed volunteer work as an editor in a newsletter for the American Women's Club in Lausanne, Switzerland. She lives in Sacramento, California, with her husband, Ken, and their Dalmatian, Bella.

Liberty Kovacs, Ph.D., M.F-T., is a licensed marital/family therapist and holds a Ph.D. in marital/family therapy from the California Graduate School of Family Psychology. Dr. Kovacs has published articles about marriage in a number of professional journals and mainstream publications, such as Family Therapy, The Sacramento Bee, Body and Soul, and Good Housekeeping, London. Dr. Kovacs lives in Sacramento, California.

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Compiler's Note: See, particularly, Chapter 15: Treating Infertility (pp. 151-162) and Chapter 16: Adoption as an Option (pp. 163-173).

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About the Author: Carmen Martínez Jover was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, in 1959. Since 1969 she lives in Mexico City. Due to her years of infertility led her to paint the roller coaster of emotions she went through. She participates with infertility support groups throughout the world.

It’s Washington, D.C. in 1990 and yuppies Lauren and Mack Weiss seem to have it all—great jobs, nice cars, and each other. All they desperately want is a baby to complete the picture. Laugh and cry your way through their five-year quest with infertility, genetic testing, adoption and more. Lauren’s behind-the-scenes details of the legislative process will captivate you on their roller coaster ride toward parenthood. Feel hope, despair and jubilation in this true and inspiring story.

Basal body temperatures. Hormone injections. Invasive procedures—that leave no room for modesty. Tips on “effective positions” from well-meaning grandparents. When the natural way fails to work these are all added to the so called “fun” process of making a baby. Walk this rocky path to motherhood with author Stacey Rourke as she openly and honestly shares every good, bad, and awkward step of her three-year long journey. Using humor to break through the perils of infertility, she gives the lowdown on all the strange, embarrassing, and heartbreaking aspects. Stacey guides us through an unforgettable path that ends with a kid on each hip and hope for all those suffering with infertility. BONUS MATERIAL: “Morsels of Hope” Success Stories from Infertility Survivors.

From the Back Cover: If you are finding it difficult to get pregnant, you are not alone. One in six couples of child-bearing age in the United States is infertile and the problem is growing. Now Dr. Robert R. Franklin, a world-renowned fertility specialist, offers the comprehensive information you need in the complex process of overcoming infertility.

In Pursuit of Fertility covers all the possible causes of infertility and their treatments, including the latest medical breakthroughs and technological discoveries. This reassuring guide also provides sensitive advice on how to handle the emotional stress accompanying infertility, and explores alternative solutions, such as adoption and surrogacy.

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About the Author: Robert R. Franklin, M.D., a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, is an acknowledged leader in the field of infertility.

Dorothy Kay Brockman is a free-lance writer who lives in Houston.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Part IV. Alternative Solutions, which encompasses chapters on donor insemination, surrogacy, and adoption.

From the Dust Jacket: Millions of people are caught up in a desperate search to have a baby. It seems that becoming a parent should be easier than ever before, yet the demand for infertility services has grown enormously in recent years. Fertility programs promise exciting new alternative, but they also carry high emotional and financial costs. In Search of Parenthood looks at these new methods of conception—artificial insemination, test-tube fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and ovum transfer—and investigates the hope they offer as well as the difhcult dilemmas and personal challenges they present.

A great deal has been written about these alternatives. Some authors extol the wonders of new discoveries; others condemn the technologies as ethically questionable, religiously unacceptable, or socially dangerous. In Search of Parenthood has a different purpose. It is the first book to explore the personal consequences of these new technologies for the many people whose lives they touch. Based on their interviews with over 200 people—infertile couples, surrogate mothers, sperm donors, physicians, nurses, lawyers, and therapists—Judith Lasker and Susan Borg describe the terrible pain of infertility and the “roller-coaster” experiences of people who have tried the new methods. They also offer an indispensable guide to the important social and psychological issues raised by the new alternatives. How much are couples willing to go through to try to become pregnant? Can they afford it? What are the chances of success? Should they tell anyone? How will their efforts affect their marriage and the children they may have? What are the pressures facing single people who try the new methods?

New ways of conceiving that involve a donor or surrogate mother pose additional dilemmas. In Search of Parenthood considers the motives and experiences of these important people, the kinds of relationships they may have with the children who are born, and the effects on themselves and their own families of helping someone else have a baby. The professionals who offer these programs are also represented here. Lasker and Borg describe their reasons for becoming involved with infertility programs and suggest ways that professionals can provide the best possible support to the people who come to them for help.

While In Search of Parenthood focuses primarily on the personal side of the new technologies, it also examines public attitudes and the possible effect of the new methods on society as a whole. Sensitive and candid, the book neither condemns nor endorses the new technologies. Instead it provides infertile people, medical professionals, and the interested public with a much-needed inside look at the complicated world of high-tech conception.

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About the Author: Judith N. Lasker is associate professor of sociology at Lehigh University.

Susan Borg is an architect in New Jersey.

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By the Same Author: When Pregnancy Fails: Families Coping With Miscarriage, Stilbirth, and Infant Death (1981).

In the Year of the Ox details a personal quest that began with Hannah Amgott’s diagnosis of early menopause at age 35 and ends with the adoption of her daughter in China twelve years later. Also a tale of survival and strength, In the Year of the Ox reveals the day-to-day realities of coping with life-threatening illnesses and overcoming the many challenges inherent in the international adoption process.

One in six couples in America will experience reproductive problems. Julia Indichova and her husband were part of that statistic. According to several fertility specialists Julia’s high FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) level was an indication that her body was no longer producing fertilizable eggs. Her only chance of conceiving, they said, was in-vitro-fertilization with a donor egg. After a futile quest for a more hopeful prognosis, Julia searched through a variety of holistic alternatives and finally decided upon a personal healing regimen. She followed it as single-mindedly, as one would follow a doctor’s prescription of antibiotics. Her daughter Adira was conceived naturally, eight months later, and was born on April 29, 1994.

It is over two decades since the first test-tube baby was born. During this period a new belief that all infertile women can now have babies has become widely accepted; indeed, infertile couples may feel great pressure to seek a medical solution. However, the psychological and social effects of the changing experiences of infertility remain confusing, both for those who experience infertility and for wider society. In this book, a distinguished range of contributors, including novelist Hilary Mantel and Germaine Greer, examine the experience of infertility from both male and female perspectives, the psychological aspects of infertility diagnosis and treatment, and the often radical and unexpected effects on kinship. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical backgrounds including Jungian, analytical, and compelling personal reflections, this book aims to unravel the implications of advancing reproductive technology for our understanding of ourselves and our families. About the Author: Juliet Miller is a Jungian Analyst in full time private practice in London. Prior to training as an analyst she worked as a writer and producer/director of documentaries and made films on many aspects of women’s, environmental and social issues. Jane Haynes is a Jungian Analyst working in full time private practice in central London.

From the Publisher: Infertility is a significant health issue and one that has received increasing media attention in the UK and elsewhere in recent years. For affected couples, it is the cause of substantial distress and feelings of isolation that can lead to associated anxiety and depression. This is compounded by a perceived lack of support from health services as well as a lack of available information regarding its management.

This book provides current information and practical advice on the underlying causes, diagnosis and management of infertility in a clear and concise style that is accessible to patients. The book covers all aspects of infertility from investigation, treatment, successful pregnancy and coping with childlessness. The text is written in a plain-spoken style that is easy to read and absorb, with liberal use of bullet points, diagrams, graphs, photographs, tables and other illustrations. Case studies and patient perspectives are included throughout the text to bring key concepts to life.

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About the Author: Melanie Davies’s special interest is infertility and assisted conception and she has worked in this field for 15 years.

Caroline Overton’s special interest is endometriosis and laparoscopic surgery.

Lisa Webber’s special interest is ovulation problems and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Infertility has a medical basis, but it impacts profoundly on the emotional and psychological well-being of couples. In the past, adoption and donor insemination were the only ways infertile couples could hope to become parents. Today, with the rapid development of medical technology and knowledge, comes a bewildering range of options, many of them time-consuming and expensive.

From the Back Cover: For the first time a gynaecologist at the centre of the debate on infertility writes a frank and truthful book for the public. Infertility affects one in eight couples, and yet many are left believing that theirs is “unexplained.” Treatment without a diagnosis is questioinable. Robert Winston, Director of the largest clinic giving the test-tube baby treatment on the National Health Service explains:

• how to ensure you get all the relevant tests

• every known cause of both female and male infertility, and the treatments

• whether the latest treatments such as in vitro fertilization would be appropriate in your case.

He discusses the emotional and ethical questions dominating the controversial issues of iin vitro fertilization, artificial insemination by donor and surrogacy, and in his Ten Points for Infertile Couples he offers genuinely sympathetic advice for surviving this very stressful period.

Illustrated throughout with diagrams and photographs.

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About the Author: Robert Winston is an internationally respected gynaecologist specializing in infertility. He is Director of the Infertility Clinic at Hammersmith Hospital, London, the largest comprehensive infertility clinic in the UK offering the test-tube baby treatment on the National Health Service.

He has been visiting Professor at the Universities of Texas, Leuven (Belgium) and Clyman Visiting Professor at the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. His research has been in collaboration with leading infertility centres in the USA, Canada, West Germany and Belgium. He has written many specialist papers on infertility and holds the rare and prestigious post of Professor of Fertility in the University of London.

He presented the award-winning series Your Life in Their Hands, for BBC Television, and a recent BBC Forty Minutes programme was devoted to the work of the Infertility Unit at Hammersmith.

Mr Winston is married with three children.

From the Back Cover (1991 Edition): Drawing on her own personal struggle with infertility and her sixteen years of professional experience as a psychotherapist, Linda P. Salzer offers individuals and couples a comprehensive guide for coping with the many intense feelings—anger, depression, fear, envy—that often emerge from the crisis of infertility. Salzer leads infertile couples beyond initial feelings of guilt and isolation, helping them to deal with the reactions of family and friends, handle marital strain, and survive the stress of treatment. This revised edition includes a full exploration of donor insemination and the new reproductive technologies, an all-new section offering answers to some of the most commonly asked questions, and an updated bibliography and resource listing. Surviving Infertility teaches:

• When to get help, and where to find support

• How to manage the doctor-patient relationship

• How to sustain a spontaneous sex life

• When to consider adoption or child-free living

• How to talk about infertility together, and how to keep the relationship strong

Surviving Infertility is an invaluable source of support and practical advice, and ultimately shows that there can be an end to the pain of infertility, however each individual’s resolution might differ.

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About the Author: Linda P. Salzer is a psychotherapist and clinical social worker specializing in the fields of infertility and adoption. She maintains a private practice in Englewood, New Jersey, conducts workshops for adoptive parents at local parenting centers, and speaks at infertility/adoption conferences across the country. In addition, she has made numerous radio and television appearances. Linda has been active with RESOLVE, the national infertility support organization, and previously served as president of the northern New Jersey chapter. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

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Compiler’s Note: Adoption is addressed at length in the final chapter, “Ending the Struggle” (1986: pp. 249-267; 1991: pp. 310-335). The first edition was published after Salzer had adopted her son, Eric, to whom she dedicates the book; upon publication of the second edition, she had adopted a second, Scott.

From the Publisher: A diagnosis of infertility can be devastating. Learning that it may be impossible for you to conceive a child can be one of the most painful experiences anyone may have to confront. Infertility: Old Myths, New Meanings presents an examination of the condition of infertility and how to deal with it. Focusing on the experiences of women she has interviewed, the author looks critically at the medical and technological approaches encountered. She emphasizes the need for support networks, such as Resolve, for those confronting infertility. This book will help you explore just what infertility means to you.

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About the Author: Jan Rehner teaches academic and professional writing at York University. She has traveled to France many times, and visited many local French Resistance museums. Her previous publications include poetry and academic works as well as her first mystery, Just Murder, which won the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel.

A woman whose identity is entirely grounded in her femininity and presumed ability to bear children tells how she dealt with her infertility, a failed adoption, and the end of her marriage.

Focuses primarily on the emotional side of infertility, using many beautiful, moving poems to make its point.