Ovulation (found 241 titles)

The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: The Ultimate Guide to Conception, Birth, and Everything In Between (U.S. Edition)

Author: Ann Douglas
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 2002-01-01
ISBN: 0764565168
Pages: 556
Rating:

The ultimate guide to conception, birth, and everything in between.

Unlike all those otherbossy, tell-you-what-to-do titles, this funny, entertaining guide presents expectant parents with all the facts on such perennial hot topics as pain relief during labor, episiotomy, and circumcision, and empowers them to make informed personal choices. It's packed with tools you won't find anywhere else, including:

Charts highlighting the risks of using various over-the-counter drug productsduring pregnancy
Lists of the ten best -- and worst --baby products
A set of emergency childbirth procedures
Forthright discussions of difficult topics like infertility, high-risk pregnancy, and pregnancy and infant loss that other books are loathe to tackle

Customes reviews 180

Very Pleased (2010-03-22)

I am not pregnant, but my husband and I are considering having a child sometime soon. Also my sister-in-law is about 23 weeks along in her pregnancy. I found this book to be very helpful for me and my sister-in-law. On top of seeing what other people who are going through some of the same things as you have to say, this book also had a birthing plan worksheet, information on how to contact different Dr's and Midwives, websites for any numbers of pregnancy and parenting concerns and many more very helpful facts. I would absolutely recommend this book.

So Much Information (2010-02-15)

There's so much information you get overloaded. This book has everything. But its a bit overwhelming for me. I ended up using it more as a reference guide. My main pregnancy book I used was 'Your Pregnancy Week by Week'. I'm not a big reader so this suited me well, I could just read each week as my pregnancy progressed. It had all the same information as the other pregnancy books, but in a more organized fashion.

good stuff (2009-10-30)

product was good shape, definetely used but in good shape. came in the mail much sooner than i anticipated which was great. i reccommend this seller and would definetely go through them again.

good book (2009-09-12)

I couldn't put it down. I was reading this from the point of view of wanting to become pregnant. I think this book was very helpful and would recommend it. The only concern I had was the statistics were from 1999.

The one & only book you'll need (2009-09-08)

This is the one & only book that you will need before & during your pregnancy. It is crisp, concise and packed with easy to understand graphs, charts & references about every pregnancy topic. Three things that I referenced time & time again... 1.) The Due Date Calculator, 2.) The Pregnancy Side Effect Chart, organized month-by-month & the accompanying side effect explaination, 3.) A concise month-by-month summary of baby development.

This book gives you all the knowledge you need to know without a ton of fluff. It is a quick read, and the way the info is presented, it sticks with you. I found that most pregnancy books on the market are flowerly, sentimental stories and have very little practical knowledge. Althought this book has personal quotes and short stories, it delivers the good to with the knowledge you need to know to get pregnant, what to expect during your pregnancy and practical knowledge for delivery.

Highly recommended!

The Fertility Diet: Groundbreaking Research Reveals Natural Ways to Boost Ovulation and Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant

Authors: Jorge Chavarro, Walter Willett, Patrick Skerrett
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication date: 2007-11-07
ISBN: 0071494790
Pages: 304
Rating:

Price: $24.95

Could having the occasional small bowl of ice cream lead to a midnight craving for pickles and ice cream?

It's common knowledge that diet and exercise have profound effects on your health. Can they affect your ability to get pregnant, too? Until now, the answer to that question was a qualified "Maybe." Today, it's "Yes!" thanks to exciting findings from a landmark long-term study of female nurses. As described in The Fertility Diet, ten simple changes in diet and activity can have profound effects on fertility. You can increase your chances of getting pregnant with such simple strategies as:

Avoiding trans fats
Eating more beans, nuts, and other fertility-boosting plant protein
Embracing whole grains such as oatmeal and barley
Having a glass of whole milk or other full-fat dairy product every day (a small bowl of ice cream every now and then counts, too!)
Staying away from sugared sodas

The Nurses' Health Study exhaustively examined the effects of diet and other lifestyle changes on fertility among nearly 20,000 female nurses. It scrutinized everything from alcohol to vitamins. In plain language, two of the study's lead researchers translate its groundbreaking findings into changes you can put into practice today, setting the stage for a healthy pregnancy and forming the foundation for an eating strategy that will serve you well for the rest of your life. The Fertility Diet also offers a week's worth of meal plans and fifteen delicious recipes.

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Amazingly clear book - with thorough science to support all recommendations for fertility (2010-02-20)

This is an amazingly clear and helpful book for anyone trying to improve their chances of becoming pregnant. All recommendations in this book are based on decades of research from Harvard's Nurses' Health Study - hence are recommendations all well supported by the strongest of scientific evidence. However, it is written for the general public and provides quite cogent and insightful tips on healthy styles factors to improve fertility. Truly a must read for any woman or couple wanting to become pregnant!

Not that informative (2009-11-02)

People TTC would do better with Dr. Randine Lewis' book The Infertility Cure. Traditional Chinese Medicine has a lot more to offer people struggling with fertility issues than a book such as this promoting what people SHOULD be doing anyway - on their own accord. Eat a balanced, hormone free diet, lots of fresh veggies, lots of water, whole grains, all organic, of course. Sure people who eat a crap diet and then alter their diet to a more healthy one will conceive (without obvious issues) once the essential nutrientes are in place. Doesn't take a scientist. Gee, give up sodas? Give up fast food? Seriously, you shouldn't be TTC if you are eating that junk anyway. Dairy and wheat DO cause congestion according to TCM and are the very first things required for most females to give up to clear their systems. Calcium and the other vitamins and minerals from dairy and wheat can be gotten from so many other natural, vegan sources.

WONDERFUL! (2009-05-12)

I have read MANY fertility books and this is by far the best, especially for those with PCOS. I took it to my last doctor's appt and she said if I follow this (without the whole milk part), then it's pretty much the same thing she is telling me to do to up my chances of conceiving. I recommend it highly!!!

Helped me and a friend get pregnant (2009-01-28)

After trying for over 3 years to get pregnant and several unsuccessful fertility treatments including IVF, I followed the recommendations in this book and 2 months later we conceived naturally. I am the proud mother of a 5 day old healthy baby girl. In addition, I gave this book to a friend who was also struggling with fertility and she is now 10 weeks pregnant (about 3 months after following the diet). Both my friend and I had undetermined infertility causes and we are both over 35 years of age. This book is not hard to follow nor is it recommending anything radical that will make your life miserable. I can't say with 100% certainty that this diet got me fertile but I believe in my heart that it did. Infertility is such a painful emotional journey and people can get desperate to try most anything. This book is not some wacko diet which some reviewers have said is "harmful". I think that is a little dramatic, since it is pretty much following a healthy diet plan. Good luck to all the women struggling with infertility and don't lose hope!

Very informative book (2008-07-24)

This book is very informative. It goes into great detail about the possible causes of ovulatory infertility and what you can do, naturally, to help get pregnant. I loved that it gives you the basic outline for what to do and then you can make the choices that are necessary to help you have a baby - and that all of it is based on a national study. I also like the fact that it gives you some daily meal plans and some recipes.

Fertility Foods: Optimize Ovulation and Conception Through Food Choices

Authors: Jeremy Groll, Lorie Groll
Publisher: Fireside
Publication date: 2006-05-02
ISBN:
Pages: 288
Rating:

Price: $16.00

Dr. Jeremy Groll is an expert in reproductive endocrinology and fertility treatment. Fertility Foods presents his groundbreaking, noninvasive, nutritionally based method, which increases ovulation, reduces miscarriage, and significantly improves your chances of successfully getting and staying pregnant.

Dr. Groll's specialized research has proven that there is a powerful link between a body's insulin resistance and fertility problems. Resistance to insulin increases the body's insulin levels, hindering normal ovulation either by limiting the maturation process of the released egg or by preventing ovulation altogether. High insulin levels can also impede the fertilized egg's ability to attach to the uterus, leading to implantation failure and miscarriage. In fact, women with insulin resistance problems are four to five times as likely as other women to suffer miscarriages -- meaning they have as high as a 50 percent chance of miscarriage.

Dr. Groll has developed an insulin-reducing diet based on balancing protein and complex carbohydrate intake to create insulin levels most conducive to ovulation. He combines his nutritional plan -- which includes nutritional charts, food suggestions, and recipes -- with a specific exercise program that enhances insulin metabolism and an emotional support system that you can draw on during your quest to become parents. This three-pronged approach increases the rates of spontaneous ovulation and significantly improves the uterine environment, decreasing the potential for miscarriage.

One in every ten couples in America is affected by infertility. Yet, only 5 to 10 percent of patients actually need high-tech procedures such as in vitro fertilization. Whether you are taking your first steps in combating infertility or searching for effective methods to support more advanced fertility treatments, Fertility Foods is your helpful and rewarding guide.

Customes reviews 6

Fertility foods (2009-06-10)

This was a very informative book about infertility. I haven't had success yet, but I feel healthier with the new diet.

Great Advice, Really is the Same He Gives in the Office (2009-05-29)

I am a patient of Dr Grolls and purchased the book for more details on the eating/insulin resistance reduction plan he proposed. The plan is not extreme, but it really does help reduce insulin resistance. If you have PCOS or other insulin resistance this is definitely worth looking into as a lifestyle change.

A great book and a nutrition plan that you want to stick to (2007-07-08)

It is a very good book which, in very simple terms, explains how this nutrition plan works. I have PCOS and this book makes me hopeful that I may be able to control my condition without serious medication. I certainly would recommend this nutrition plan before trying Metformin. I was surprised how quickly the plan worked: I saw improvements in my symptoms within weeks after starting the plan. In fact, I have so much more energy and feel so much better that I would want to stick to this way of eating indefinitely. I only wish there would be more and better receipes in this book.

Pretty good but not great (2007-03-24)

The main idea of this book is that a high-protien, low-carb diet will increase your odds at having a child. What the author doesn't mention is that maintaining a high-protien, low-carb diet for an extended period of time can actually harm, not help, you. Rememeber, Atkins died of heart disease. The author of this book insists that by losing weight while on such a diet will increase your fertility. ANY weight loss will increase your fertility. The premise of the book, eat right and exercise, is a good one. The way he says to go about it is bad advice. 90% of all dieters fail. Why? Because diets don't work. Lifestyle changes in diet and exercise is the only sure fire way to lose weight and increase your odds of having a child.

not worth the money (2006-07-24)

The main disappointment with this book was the lack of actual meal plans and recipes. Nearly 2/3rds of the book is given over to advice about exercise, emotional health, etc-- good stuff, but also stuff that's covered better in several other well known books. There are really only a few pages given over to how to actually eat. This plan is also based on Atkins principles, and though it is much more flexible and reasonable, it would be quite difficult to follow for vegetarians and veggie friendly options are not provided by the authors. This book is mainly of interest to women with PCOS who need more general lifestyle information. Women with endo and other issues, or people who are looking for more concrete nutritional info, meal plans, etc should look to the Healing Gourmet book on fertility. It has a similar approach (to insulin resistance) but provides concrete suggestions for meal planning.

The Fertility Diet: Groundbreaking Research Reveals Natural Ways to Boost Ovulation and Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant

Authors: Jorge Chavarro, Walter Willett, Patrick Skerrett
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication date: 2009-04-06
ISBN: 0071627103
Pages: 288
Rating:

Price: $16.95

Get pregnant--naturally!

The Fertility Diet reveals startling new research from the landmark Nurses' Health Study, which shows that the food you eat can boost your fertility. The book prescribes ten simple changes in diet and activity that can increase your chances of getting pregnant.These changes include:

Cutting back on red meat and trans fats
Getting protein and iron from veggies and nuts
Choosing whole-fat milk and even ice cream
Drinking coffee, tea, and alcohol in moderation
Losing weight (if needed) and exercising

The Nurses' Health Study exhaustively examined the effects of diet and other lifestyle changes on fertility among nearly 20,000 female nurses. Two of the study's lead researchers translate its groundbreaking findings into changes you can put into practice today, setting the stage for a healthy pregnancy and forming the foundation for an eating strategy that will serve you well for the rest of your life. The Fertility Diet also offers a week's worth of meal plans and delicious recipes that will make following the guildelines easy and tasty.

Customes reviews 1

Very useful information for women trying to get pregnant (2010-04-23)

This book was an easy read and provided important nutrition and lifestyle information for women trying to become pregnant. The information seemed well-proven and effective. I put into practice some of the ideas immediately and found them easy to follow. I would highly recommend this book!

The Ovulation Method: Natural Family Planning

Authors: John J. Billings
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 1984-12
ISBN: 0814610110
Pages: 40
Rating:

Price: $9.95

Customes reviews 8

Natural (2010-03-03)

I enjoyed the Ovulation Method Book. It really help me out to understand what I need to do in order to get pregnant.

Very Effective!!!! (2007-07-15)

I have been on the Billings Ovulation Method for a few years now and beleive me, if you don't cheat it is 99.99% effective. The downfall to this method is that you are not suppose to know exactly how to use it without instruction. There are ways to contact these instructers that can guide you through the process for a fee. Check with your local womens center or life center, they can help. I was able to go through my training course right here in my home for thirty dollars, and you don't have to be Catholic to use it. Good luck to you.

PS.. I did get pregnant during the time of practicing this method but it is because we chose to cheat on my most fertile day. An Anniversary and a few drinks will impair judgement like that so be careful...lol

Promotes the method but doesn't teach it (2007-07-12)

This slim book promotes the Ovulation Method, profiling its advantages and utility. But it is not an instruction book. I'm only giving it three starts because although it's well-written I'm not sure who the intended audience is, or what group might find it useful.

For someone looking to learn a mucus-only method, I would look to "The Billings Method:Controlling Fertility Without Drugs or Devices" by Evelyn Billings. For someone just interested in any kind of fertility charting, not specifically a mucus-only method, I highly recommend Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler as the definitive book in this category.

Well worth it! (2007-01-13)

The ovulation book was great. The book was a good price, it was packed full of information and came with a chart and pleanty of stickers to get you and your spouse started on the wonderful journey of natural family planning.

Could be Better (2005-07-07)

I was hoping that the book went into better detail. It did not help me. However, it was informative and an easy read.

The Price of Ovulation: The Truth about Fertility Drugs and Birth Defects and a Solution to the Problem

Authors: Terence Mix
Publisher: Tendril Press
Publication date: 2008-11-17
ISBN: 0980219000
Pages: 500
Rating:

Price: $34.95

For Doctors, Lawyers, prospective Moms and Dads, and anyone who cares about the next generation yet to be conceived! 750,000 women in the U.S. alone take fertility drugs annually. Many realize their dreams through the help of those drugs, but for too many mothers, their dreams become their worst nightmares. In chilling detail, this book documents startling evidence of falsified records, deceptive labeling, and unheeded requests by the FDA to conduct studies and include warnings about the risks of birth defects. It also reveals how the FDA turned its back on efforts to warn the public of the dangers of Clomid (clomiphene citrate.)

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A wonderful book that keeps you tearing through, angrily underlining and scribbling in the margins all the way to the end. (2009-11-17)

The first thing you'll notice when you pick up Terence Mix's Nautilus Award winning book, "The Price of Ovulation", is that it's big. And I mean BIG in capital letters. It's got a BIG storyline spanning over thirty years of investigation and litigation against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in America. It's a memoir. It's an essay. It's a reference book. It's dramatic. It's informative. It's entertaining. It's BIG. That it manages to be all of these things is a feat in itself, but all of these aspects are expertly melded into a single sword which may just be the ultimate weapon against corporate corruption that Mix had hoped for when he began writing it.

Of course, the second thing you'll notice is the title. "The Price of Ovulation" sounds like an icky educational film from the sixties, and although it's an apt title considering Mix's thesis, and is perfect for publication in a scientific or legal journal (which tend to specialize in icky titles), it just doesn't drive the impact of its message to a mass audience. That's as far as my criticism of the book goes, because the second I opened it I was engrossed by its harrowing first few pages; a love story turned to terror at the hands of a fertility drug called Clomid, which caused Heinz and Ingrid Breimhorst's child to be born with no hands, a clubfoot, and a palsy on the left side of his face.

It quickly becomes clear that Mix knows how to work an audience. What follows feels a bit like a John Grisham novel, except with figures, transcripts, and courtroom testimonies thrown in to inform the reader and provide credibility. Even if you feel inclined to skip over some of the technical insets you'll still gain a lot of information as you ride Mix's roller coaster trial story.

After Mix wins the trial against the pharmaceutical company, Richardson-Merrell, which marketed Clomid, the next portion of the book becomes a more personal journey for the author as he attempts to persuade the Federal Drug Administration to take Clomid off the market. What Mix provides, beyond his warning to expectant mothers, doctors who prescribe fertility drugs, and fellow lawyers, is a detailed account of how the relationship between the FDA and the large corporations it's supposed to regulate ends up working against the consumer instead. Since I'm neither an expectant mother, doctor, nor lawyer, this is what spoke to me most in "The Price of Ovulation". The theme most prevalent in Mix's journey are his encounters, time and again, with the dismissal of evidence that could save thousands because it may infringe on profitability.

"The Price of Ovulation" is a wonderful book that keeps you tearing through, angrily underlining and scribbling in the margins all the way to the end. Terence Mix also does a great job of casting himself as the main character, becoming more than just a talking head full of information. He lets you into to his personal struggles which parallel his legal and scientific journey. He's likable and funny, and utterly alone against an army of corporate doctors and lawyers, all of which serves to make him an extraordinary character to follow throughout this horrifying, sad, and enlightening modern odyssey.

The Price of Ovulation (2009-09-28)

A Preachable Message: The Dynamics of Natural Family Planning

Publisher: Billings Ovulation Method Association US
Publication date: 2002
ISBN: 0972225102
Pages: 145
Price:

A Preachable Message is designed to help clergy preach about the sometimes difficult topic of natural family planning. This book features an introduction by Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago and offers ideas from bishops and priests throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Vatican. "Clergy often simply don't know the words to say when talking about 'Humanae Vitae' and natural family planning," said Sue Ek, executive director of the St. Paul-based association, who said the book grew out of an audiotape project several years ago. "This book not only gives the personal experiences of clergy but adds a dozen homilies and a chapter called 'Scriptural Opportunities' which will assist priests in developing homilies throughout the three-year liturgical calendar," Ek added, calling it "a tangible tool that will help clergy get the word out that the church has a beautiful, courageous teaching that helps marriages." This book contains teachings from (in order of appearance): Father James Sullivan, OP, Deacon Dr. Bob McDonald, Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M., Cap, Father John Corapi, STD. SOLT, Father Kenneth Baker, SJ, Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, the late Father Ronald Lawler, O.F.M., Cap., Bishop Thomas J. Olmested, Father Alan Okon, Father Anthony Oelrich, Father Daniel McCaffrey, STD, Monsignor Bob Guste, Father James Otto, Bishop Frederick Campbell, Father Bob Cannon, Father William Kurz, SJ, Father Joseph Hattie, Father Pablo Straub, CSSR, Father David Grundmann, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz and Monsignor Daniel Taufen. The book includes homilies by Francis Cardinal George, Bishop Raymond Burke, Bishop Joseph Naumann , Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain, Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, Monsignor James Conley, Monsignor Bob Guste, the late Father Ronald Lawler, OFM, Cap., Father Daniel Mc Caffrey, STD, Father Tom Knoblach, Father Tony Oelrich and Father Augustine H.T. Tran

Choice Moms Guide to Fertility (Choice Moms Guides)

Authors: Louise Sloan, Wendy Kramer, Alice Ruby, Angela Wu
Publisher: Be-Mondo Publishing Inc.
Publication date: 2007-10-01
ISBN:
Price: $10.95

This information-packed 100-page resource for single women who are trying to conceive includes: • A 10-Step Plan • Section 1: What to Expect When You Want to Be Expecting where more than 15 fertility specialists discuss assessing egg quality, treatment options, ovulation detection, fertility challenges and myths • Section 2: Educating Yourself in order to choose doctors wisely, select a sperm bank and donor, negotiate with a known donor, find low-cost options, try at-home insemination • Section 3: Dealing With the Emotions of coping with fertility treatment, the two-week wait, including stress reduction tips from Alice Domar and eastern medicine insight from Angela Wu • glossary, lab tests, resources Excerpt: "I never knew what a dolt I was about female fertility until I tried to understand my own. I wish it was as easy as coping with a bad golf game or quitting smoking. Practice doesn't help, and there are no tasty spearmint Bun-in-the-Oven gums to chew. No, there are long uncomfortable minutes with your toes in the air (I seem to recall that some don't conceive this way, but I'm having trouble remembering the concept). I tried ovulation test strips. These are great because I never get tired of peeing on things, especially my own hands. I worry that I won't get pregnant. Then I worry that I will. Then I worry that I'm worrying too much and affecting my chances. And then I have a drink and feel guilty about the alcohol consumption. It's a vicious cycle."