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Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant
You may have waited a long time. You may have tried and tried.
Now your chances of having a baby are better than ever!
There have been remarkable advances in fertility technology and choices in the last few years, with pregnancy success rates skyrocketing. Now Making a Baby provides the information you need to become your most fertile--and increase your chances for having the baby you've always wanted. Up-to-date, comprehensive, written with compassion and clarity, this book reveals how to protect, increase, and extend your fertility, with essential information
- The optimal frequency, timing, and sexual positions for getting pregnant
- Surprising new findings on which foods and exercise programs boost fertility--and which ones actually decrease your chances
- Advances in baby-boosting medications--and a complete assessment of risks, costs, and alternatives
- Breakthrough medical techniques that help achieve pregnancy without the risk of multiples
- Avoiding the common--and often hidden--threats to fertility at work, at home, and in public places
- Choosing the A.R.T. (assisted reproductive technology) that's right for you
- Special issues for midlife mothers
- What every man should know about his long-term reproductive health
- How to minimize emotional stress and keep your relationship strong
- How to work with your HMO to get the right treatments--at the right cost
This detailed, insightful, and meticulously researched book will help guide you to a wonderful new beginning as a parent!
Now your chances of having a baby are better than ever!
There have been remarkable advances in fertility technology and choices in the last few years, with pregnancy success rates skyrocketing. Now Making a Baby provides the information you need to become your most fertile--and increase your chances for having the baby you've always wanted. Up-to-date, comprehensive, written with compassion and clarity, this book reveals how to protect, increase, and extend your fertility, with essential information
- The optimal frequency, timing, and sexual positions for getting pregnant
- Surprising new findings on which foods and exercise programs boost fertility--and which ones actually decrease your chances
- Advances in baby-boosting medications--and a complete assessment of risks, costs, and alternatives
- Breakthrough medical techniques that help achieve pregnancy without the risk of multiples
- Avoiding the common--and often hidden--threats to fertility at work, at home, and in public places
- Choosing the A.R.T. (assisted reproductive technology) that's right for you
- Special issues for midlife mothers
- What every man should know about his long-term reproductive health
- How to minimize emotional stress and keep your relationship strong
- How to work with your HMO to get the right treatments--at the right cost
This detailed, insightful, and meticulously researched book will help guide you to a wonderful new beginning as a parent!
- GenresNonfiction
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Debra Fulghum Bruce
50 books2 followersAuthor Deb Bruce is a graduate of the University of South Florida School of Communications in Tampa, Florida. As a prolific communicator who has mastered her craft, Deb was recently chosen as the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year (1998) by the University of South Florida for her journalism contributions.
She has a fresh but persuasive writing style, publishing more than 2,500 feature articles in such magazines as Woman's Day, Prevention, and Success. As former Editor of Living Well Today, Deb has written 40 books, working with editors of such major houses as Ballentine, Bantam, Macmillan USA, Dell, Simon & Schuster, Avon, W. W. Norton, John Wiley, Dutton, Kensington, and Henry Holt.
Current promotional ventures include ongoing weekly seminars given by coauthors, as well as a new fitness video entitled Flexible Fitness: An Arthritis Workout, featuring actress Linda Lavin, star of Broadway's Gypsy and the television sitcom Alice, and distributed through Daniel Edelman Agency, New York. Features and excerpts from her many books have recently appeared in such popular mass-market magazines as Vogue, Prevention, Men's Health, McCall's, US News and World Report, Redbook, New Choices, Mature Outlook, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Glamour, Walking, Cooking Light, Shape, and Woman's World Weekly. Her coauthors have appeared on numerous programs including CNN News, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the Today Show , as well as radio and television talk shows. Her book I'd Kill for a Cookie was chosen by USA TODAY as one of the Top 10 Health Books in l997.
Specializing in health and spiritual collaborations, Deb has 15 years of experience working with renowned specialists in the fields of psychology, gerontology, rheumatology, cardiology, pulmonology, sleep medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, internal medicine, nutrition, urology, and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Deb's energy, tenaciousness, and inquisitive manner enable her to create health books of the finest quality, and she has an inherent ability to work well with coauthors and editors.
She has a fresh but persuasive writing style, publishing more than 2,500 feature articles in such magazines as Woman's Day, Prevention, and Success. As former Editor of Living Well Today, Deb has written 40 books, working with editors of such major houses as Ballentine, Bantam, Macmillan USA, Dell, Simon & Schuster, Avon, W. W. Norton, John Wiley, Dutton, Kensington, and Henry Holt.
Current promotional ventures include ongoing weekly seminars given by coauthors, as well as a new fitness video entitled Flexible Fitness: An Arthritis Workout, featuring actress Linda Lavin, star of Broadway's Gypsy and the television sitcom Alice, and distributed through Daniel Edelman Agency, New York. Features and excerpts from her many books have recently appeared in such popular mass-market magazines as Vogue, Prevention, Men's Health, McCall's, US News and World Report, Redbook, New Choices, Mature Outlook, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Glamour, Walking, Cooking Light, Shape, and Woman's World Weekly. Her coauthors have appeared on numerous programs including CNN News, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and the Today Show , as well as radio and television talk shows. Her book I'd Kill for a Cookie was chosen by USA TODAY as one of the Top 10 Health Books in l997.
Specializing in health and spiritual collaborations, Deb has 15 years of experience working with renowned specialists in the fields of psychology, gerontology, rheumatology, cardiology, pulmonology, sleep medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, internal medicine, nutrition, urology, and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Deb's energy, tenaciousness, and inquisitive manner enable her to create health books of the finest quality, and she has an inherent ability to work well with coauthors and editors.
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August 12, 2016
More targeted for those with fertility issues than those just wanting basic details. As a practical resource for the ladies, I found "Taking Charge of your Fertility" much more informative and useful, for those of us just taking a first crack at it rather than already struggling with fertility challenges.
February 7, 2012
Excellent book. I learned a lot of facts regarding conception.
March 5, 2012
I learned a lot of facts reading this book.
Very interesting book.
Very interesting book.
February 7, 2013
It was def. geared more towards the infertile couple, but had some useful and interesting information and suggestions.
August 27, 2013
This is the first book of my "babies" reading phase! Read lots of books about pregnancy, breastfeeding, and raising babies. Very informative but hard to understand some of the medical jargon.
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