Healing The Infertile Family

Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope. Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope.

This work examines the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer. An analysis is made of the array of medical options available to those with fertility problems, and the financial and emotional toll is assessed.

Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. And the ways in which we come to understand and cope with these disruptions can say as much about our cultural heritage as they say about us as individuals. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives.

Do you Love someone who is Infertile? is a guidebook for the husband, sister, friend, or parent who can't fix a loved one¿s infertility and may feel helpless. What you do, when she is facing the greatest crisis of their life, can either lessen her pain, or add to her grief¿but in either case, the relationships will be changed profoundly. This book invites the reader into her world and gives specific and practical guidance: what to say, what to do, and what to never say. One of the most consistent statements made by infertile women about friends and family is, ¿they just don¿t get it¿¿the devastation, the loneliness, anxiety, and pain. This guidebook brings hope to the reader who finally understands what an infertile woman needs and how to walk alongside her. This book is readable and inviting; it uses a magazine-type layout to draw in the reader with pictures, quotes, stories, and practical advice.

A Healing Guide to having a baby: Infertility, emotional wounds and taking back your power Do you want to hold your baby in your arms? Discover what’s blocking your pregnancy. It’s NOT what you currently think! Step out of the endless IVF whirlwind. Jennifer Coady Murphy shares her empowering approach to overcoming infertility in this groundbreaking book. Heal your emotional wounds and blast through your inner blocks to fertility with the Jen Method. • Solve your unexplained infertility by confronting the 4 As and 3 Bs • Unlock the way to your new baby with 6 factors and 1 powerful bonus. • Create your dream pregnancy with the Jen Method, • Banish morning sickness. • Plus, one amazing hack to make your delivery fast, easy, and joyous. Finally hold your baby in your arms. Free yourself from old beliefs surrounding infertility or pregnancy with Jennifer’s proven system. Ready to stop being consumed with worries about infertility? Don’t wait any longer. Pick up this book and begin your journey to a Safe, Healthy, Happy Pregnancy!. “After 11 failed rounds of IVF and remortgaging our home 3 times! I became pregnant naturally instantaneously after working with Jen and Healing something I had no idea was connected to pregnancy. We have a beautiful baby girl now”

Have you or someone you know been told that your dream for a family may not come true. By now you've more than likely cried, screamed, and asked a million times, "God, why?" You may even be experiencing feelings of hopelessness, alienation, shame, and anger. Infertility strikes at the core of what it means to be a woman or man, tests marriages, and shakes faith. Learning I was infertile damaged my self-esteem and left me feeling embarrassed, isolated, and, above all, brokenhearted. I would spend months grieving the dream of the child I always wanted but couldn't have. I was angry at God and the world. I discovered infertility had not only impaired me physically but mentally and spiritually as well. In short, it was destroying my life. Through God's grace, I overcame.There is life, healing, and victory during and after infertility. After reading this book, I pray that God renews your faith and hope in His word as you learn to patiently wait on His promises to be fulfilled. Infertility no longer has to be a tabooed subject amongst family and friends. Trusting in the Lord will give you confidence to openly discuss your hopes for a family with close friends and relatives. And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. --Luke 18: 27

This ground-breaking, interdisciplinary volume provides an overdue assessment of how infertility has been understood, treated and experienced in different times and places. It brings together scholars from disciplines including history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences to create the first large-scale review of recent research on the history of infertility. Through exploring an unparalleled range of chronological periods and geographical regions, it develops historical perspectives on an apparently transhistorical experience. It shows how experiences of infertility, access to treatment, and medical perspectives on this ‘condition’ have been mediated by social, political, and cultural discourses. The handbook reflects on and interrogates different approaches to the history of infertility, including the potential of cross-disciplinary perspectives and the uses of different kinds of historical source material, and includes lists of research resources to aid teachers and researchers. It is an essential ‘go-to’ point for anyone interested in infertility and its history. Chapter 19 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.