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Getting an endometriosis diagnosis shouldn't feel like a life sentence. Because endo is an inflammatory disease, your diet, lifestyle, and treatment choices will impact how your disease behaves, whether through improving your symptoms, reclaiming your fertility or through the stunning possibility of disease remission. Heal Endo puts the power back in your hands to reclaim your life from endometriosis. Based on hundreds of published scientific studies,...
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Jessica has had more than her fair share of tragedy in her life. One loss was so devastating; it sucked the life out of her and almost killed her. Jessica is stuck in a seemingly never-ending cycle of sadness and grief. Why is it that the one thing she wants out of life she can't have, yet it surrounds her every day? Jessica tries to open up communication lines on a taboo subject in society and continually gets shut down. Jessica finds herself a member...
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So many women are suffering alone and in silence from a dreadful, relatively unknown disease called adenomyosis, and they don't even know it.
Too often, women have been told its simply a condition they need to live with. But every day, they have to build their lives around heavy, painful periods. They stay at home, wear black clothing, and have little or no energy to do the things they want in life.
Many women diagnosed with infertility or...
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Turning thirty is easy, but...what happens next?
The years that follow the big 3-0 shape us in ways we could never imagine.
Many of us dread our thirties, but they show up no matter what we had planned, our dreams and aspirations, our self-imposed goals, the accomplishments by which society attempts to measure and define us...there is no escaping it. In Our Thirties explores the opportunities and challenges in this remarkable decade of life, inspiring...
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An OG/GYN and fertility specialist details her personal struggles with getting pregnant, sharing a doctor's perspective on a journey faced by many.
After years of dedicating her career to bringing new lives into the world, ob/gyn and fertility specialist Dr. Dorete Noorhasan wanted to have a child of her own. But her journey to motherhood was not an easy one.
This is her story. The story of a girl who grew up amid hardship, natural disaster, and...
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The complexity of Surrogacy is arguably made even more so by the very nature of it being a decision many families reach due to the greatest of emotional challenges. There are so many opportunities for things to go wrong, but also the greatest of happy outcomes for so many families too. As a specialist surrogacy lawyer and a surrogate in 2018, Sarah Jefford has observed many surrogacy teams both flourish and struggle, and that has led to this very...
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Creating a family in the 21st Century presents certain challenges: career couples are waiting longer and discovering infertility issues and gay & lesbian couples are becoming parents through various methods. The authors share their 5 year story, struggles, and success of creating a family. This book is designed to aide others who are going through the process of creating a child through alternative means, with a specific intent of providing short...
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If You Are Not Horny, You Are Not Healthy is a groundbreaking guide that aims to help individuals reclaim their sexual health and well-being. With a unique and engaging approach, this book provides readers with the tools and strategies they need to address a wide range of sexual health concerns, from low libido to painful sex and sexual trauma.Drawing on the latest research and expert advice, this guide explores the many factors that can impact sexual...
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When mind and body are at war, time is the ultimate enemy. What if she can, never achieve the one thing she has, always dreamed of? What if she has, waited too long? Can a Buddhist Monk help her find peace?
Sarah's Story is a fictional novel depicting the common experiences of thousands of women going through the infertility journey. It sensitively gives a heartfelt account of the reality of infertility and the emotional rollercoaster that is IVF,...
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We pulled into a makeshift parking lot in the middle of a huge herd of sheep. There were two or three cars, but not a cave or another person in sight. We watched the sheep for a while, not sure what to do, when we saw people walk past us, making their way up the hill. That's when we realised that we would be working hard for our little bit of fertility magic: we had to hike to get to the cave.
I don't know what I was expecting. Perhaps something...
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Trying to get pregnant? You'll want this book in your arsenal!
Joining the ranks with pregnancy experts such as Heidi Murkoff, Dr. Avena is back and here to help. Making a healthy baby begins with healthy ingredients. Learn how to hack your diet to increase fertility, getting your body into the best baby-making shape-in only four weeks!
The latest research reveals that by optimizing nutrition, you can boost your chances of conceiving and having...
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The Love Inside Me is the inspiring story of one woman's journey to become a mother. It is an honest, fascinating account of her life in various countries as she navigates each different culture in her struggle with infertility. Her courage and fear, hope, sadness and, ultimately, joy are, echoed in the touching stories of seven other women from five different countries striving against all odds to fulfill their dreams of motherhood.
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is treatable!
This book reveals how you can finally take control of your life and live how you want to live.
Are you are sick and tired of how PCOS has affected your overall quality of life?
If you are plagued by symptoms such as acne, oily skin, menstrual issues, hair loss, hair growth, mood swings, depression, weight gain, high blood pressure, breathing problems, infertility, loss of sexual satisfaction, sense...
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Bernadette Andrews, married at twenty-two and in excellent health, was looking forward to becoming a young mum. But the years went by and baby wasn't showing up, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.
In these pages, Bernadette reflects on the ups and downs of her fertility journey: the unusual diets, the IVF cycles, the disappointment, the gut-wrenching comparisonitis and the unexpected positives.
In sharing her story, Bernadette hopes...
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"Pathway to Peace and Joy beyond Infertility" will minister to all infertile women by helping give voice to the sorrow they have experienced and make sense of their position in God's plan. Mary Hammell explores her feelings and attitudes and those of other women with a similar experience from a biblical worldview. The book will provide them with fulfillment and joy grounded in God's Word. It will also assist infertile women, over six million yearly,...
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Everything you need to know to get pregnant naturally, boost your fertility, prevent miscarriage, and improve your success with IVF.
There is no doubt that trying to conceive is an incredibly emotional and stressful journey for couples to whom it does not come easily. Family-making seems like our given right and when it fails to happen as expected then it can feel remarkably unfair, especially when many couples appear to conceive effortlessly.
This...
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In our fast-paced society, most workingwomen are so immersed in their vocations that oftentimes there isn't much free time to ponder what to consider when their life transitions to the most important role...that of "Mom". As a career-oriented woman myself, I was surprised that my closest allies, my BFFs and family members who were already Moms, hadn't given me the "lowdown" of what to expect, as well as expert advice on how to react. It is my goal...
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Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the "process" is vitiated from the get-go, i.e., commissioning a woman to bear, birth, and surrender a baby.
Surrogacy undermines a woman's human dignity. It makes her an instrument in other people's project and attacks her equal gender rights. It also objectivizes and denies the rights of the child to be born.
Countries that...
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•Do you want to make a healthy baby and have a healthy pregnancy?
•Are you interested in a holistic approach to fertility?
•Do you need to optimize your fertility due to your age or health conditions?
•Are you trying to conceive and experiencing challenges?
Very few women and men expect to have trouble when it comes to having a family, and coming up against obstacles can bring about epic levels of stress. Deciding what steps to take can...
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Without Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It also examines the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement,...
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