The Infertility Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Cope with the Challenges While Maintaining Your Sanity, Dignity, and Relationships

by Judith C. Daniluk

Book Overview

If you're part of a couple negotiating fertility issues, this book offers you practical strategies to cope with the emotional and practical problems that can occur while trying to conceive. The book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572242477
• ISBN13: 9781572242470
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

These words are so comforting

After 3.5 years of trying and a fourth failed IVF treatment, I finally found comfort in the words of Dr. Daniluk. She proved to me that I'm not alone in my anger, jealousy and frustration. Infertility is challenging enough without doubting my emotions, and her words gave me the strength to realize it's okay to feel the way I do. Her chapters on dealing with friends who have babies, dealing with unwanted advice and dealing with my emotions in general really have given me emotional strength.Thank you.

Great book

I love this book. The emotional turmoil of infertility is not easily put into words, but it is done fabulously in this book. I've been reading it thinking "Yes, that is EXACTLY how I feel" No, it doesn't sugar coat what this roller coaster ride is like and probably isn't the best resource for anyone who has been trying for less than 1 year to get pregnant or anyone who is not ready to accept that there just may be a possibility that treatments will not work. But, for those of us who know that our fertility is a struggle that will not be easily overcome, if at all, it is a great source of information. I highly recommend it.

Very Helpful!

My partner and I found this book to be tremendously helpful. Daniluk's book contains lots of really useful information on what to expect and how to cope with medical infertility treatments, as well as lots of valuable suggestions and ideas on responding to the comments of others. We found the part on how to deal with family gatherings particularly informative. My partner and I read this book together. We found it helped us stay connected as a couple as Daniluk gave us words to describe the emotions we were each experiencing. We found that by reading Daniluk's book we were in a better position to make treatment decisions during the time we were trying to get pregnant, and we recommend this book to anyone who wants to know how to better cope with the trials and tribulations of being infertile.

The Infertility Survival Guide

This book appeals to anyone going through the mess of emotions when living in a world surrounded with fertile people. It offers the support and encouragement for the many stressful decisions and situations which infertile couples face. I would definelty recommend this approach to infertility.

Lots of good advice

Five years ago, when I was undergoing infertility treatment, I could have really used this book. I'd recommend Judith Daniluk's Infertility Survival Guide to anyone who is having problems with fertility. It doesn't contain a lot of medical information - that's readily available elsewhere - rather, it focuses on the emotional and psychological aspects of infertility. There is a lot of good, practical advice on coping with the effects of infertility on different aspects of your life (including your sex life). Daniluk even offers suggested responses to all of those insensitive comments and questions that infertile couples inevitably receive. What's more, she looks at the different ways that women and men respond to infertility. My partner tends not to say a lot about his feelings, and this book would have really helped me better understand what he was going through.