Fertility and Conception: A Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant

by Zita West

A comprehensive handbook for couples looking to start a family, including those have experienced conception problems, draws on the latest medical and healthy research to provide practical advice and up-to-date information on how to maximize fertility and presents a number of conventional and complementary therapies, ranging from nutrition to IVF to assist. Original.

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

Reviews

[Pedro Teixeira · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pouco científico. É difícil considerar sério um profissional de saúde a falar de medicina chinesa.

[Keriann · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is not helpful at all. After trying for a baby for a few months I thought I would pick this up to lend a hand in the process however it has just made me more anxious, it largely contradicts itself telling you one minute not to eat a certain food and then the next minute encouraging you to eat it for the certain vitamin it contains, if I went by this book I wouldn't eat, drink or do anything, it just seemed like a book of scare mongering & if it hadn't have been a library book I would have chucked it in the river.

If you are trying to convince & want more information then read something else as this will have you through the roof with anxiety

[Kate · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is ridiculously full of fear-mongering bullshit (sorry). You can't drink or eat anything that's not organic pine nuts or some crap like that, and it's full of all the terrible things that could go wrong, rather than informative and encouraging information.

I have read a lot of these books now, and this is the worst type. Avoid.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good information on diet, lifestyle and fertility. The book was divided up into easy-to-read sections, and gave some good alternative therapies for getting pregnant.

I read it for pre-conception planning, and really liked the breakdown of vitamins and how to detox.

[Kelly Holmes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good review of fertility and conception issues from a more natural health standpoint than most mainstream fertility books.

[Suzy Singleton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book with informative facts.

[Cass]

Yes, I read non-fiction books like this back-to-back. Do I absorb all the information? Definitely not. But there's some weird satisfaction I get in having endured the whole lot of it even if the majority is not entirely relevant for me.

Take home messages:

- Watch your diet: B vitamins, folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, magnesium, selenium, vitamin A, omega 3:6 . . . . too much or too little can be bad
- There are so many different avenues to go through! The road to pregnancy is not a straight line. There is always hope, but some roads will require a lot more commitment, time, money and energy.
- Open communication between hopeful mother and her partner is crucial. Emotions and stress levels will be running wild when facing such unknowns.
- Acupuncture and Asian herbal medicine may help regulate periods and boost fertility status
- Get checked for STIs!
- Supplements are okay!
- Men need to take control of their fertility, too.
- Visualise, meditate, try and reduce stress where you can and maybe fertility will be improved.
- About female hormones and the cycle