Description
Preface
Chapter 1. Christies Story: A Personal Infertility Experience
Chapter 2. Enhancing Your Chances: Optimizing Natural Fertility
Chapter 3. Against All Odds: Female Infertility
Chapter 4. Were Part of It, Too: Male Infertility
Chapter 5. The Embryo Just Wont Stick: Reproductive Immunology
Chapter 6. Not Tonight, Wait till Ovulation: Sexual Dysfunction
Chapter 7. No Periods for Me: Amenorrhea
Chapter 8. I Just Cant Stop Bleeding: Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding
Chapter 9. Painful Periods, Nobodys Listening: Endometriosis
Chapter 10. I Have Acne, Im Hairy, and I Just Cant Get Pregnant: Polycystic Ovaries
Chapter 11. No Room for the Fetus: Uterine Fibroids
Chapter 12. Too Little, Too Early: Miscarriages
Chapter 13. Wrong Place, Painful Conception: Ectopic Pregnancy
Chapter 14. Help Is Here: Assisted Reproductive Technology
Chapter 15. Keep My Eggs Ripe: Social Egg Freezing
Chapter 16. Cancer Cant Stop Me: Fertility Preservation
Chapter 17. Building a Nontraditional Family: Nonbinary Fertility
Chapter 18. Building a Family while Serving the Nation: Military Fertility Services
Chapter 19. Help Me Preserve My Sanity: Managing Stress
Chapter 20. How to Pay for It All: Financing the Infertility Journey
Chapter 21. The Nontraditional Conception: Donor Insemination, Adopting Embryos, and Beyond
Chapter 22. The End Is in Sight: Youre Pregnant—Whats Next?
Final Words
Acknowledgments
Resources
Index
Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA, is a tenured professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences and the vice chairman of reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee-Womens Hospital, where he is also the director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship training program.
Aarti Kumar, MD, is an OB-GYN resident at New York University Langone Health.