Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Author: Sami S. David, Jill Blakeway
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Release Date: August 2009
- ISBN-10: 0316024503
- ISBN-13: 9780316024501
- List Price: $25.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryMAKING BABIES offers a proven 3-month program designed to help any woman get pregnant. Fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical, and technological intervention, but Dr. David and Blakeway know a better way. Starting by identifying "fertility types," they cover everything from recognizing the causes of fertility problems to making lifestyle choices that enhance fertility to trying surprising strategies such as taking cough medicine, decreasing doses of fertility drugs, or getting acupuncture along with IVF. MAKING BABIES is a must-have for every woman trying to conceive, whether naturally or through medical intervention. Dr. David and Blakeway are revolutionizing the fertility field, one baby at a time. |
Customer Reviews
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A MUST-READ if you are seeking to get pregnant
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Jill Blakeway and Sami David strike the perfect balance in Making Babies. As one trying to get pregnant, I am eager to understand ALL of my options -- and to understand the issues that might explain our challenges in getting pregnant. I liked having access to strong, medically-based explanations alongside lists of concrete steps we can consider in our particular case. Making Babies has allowed us to choose a path that suits our particular needs -- combining conventional medicine, diet, exercises, Chinese herbs, acupuncture, and massage. (What's great, too, is that I do not even need to pay expensive fees for a lot of this!)
Perhaps most importantly, Making Babies helped us understand how the various pieces of the puzzle fit together -- something medical providers have been unable to do for me despite my tendency to pester them with questions. The book has given me renewed faith in my body and my ability to tap into its potential -- possibly without a lot of medical intervention. JUST what we needed at a challenging and confusing time!
Great for ANYONE wanting to get pregnant
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This book is great whether you are currently trying to get pregnant and facing challenges or are considering the attempt in the near future with no sign yet of difficulties. Most books concentrate on all the interventions you might need to get pregnant. This one concentrates on the do-it-yourself approach to putting yourself at your fertile best. It also has a section on appropriate interventions and the reasons to do them, should you have difficulties, rather than just assuming you are already on your 3rd round of IVF if you are reading a fertility book at all.
And I had the same email experience other reviewers had: I emailed a question to the authors, and received a response within a week!
Fantastic book...easy to read and comprehend
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I generally do not write any reviews for products I've bought in the past but this book was so helpful, I have to share my thoughts. This book was invaluable to me in learning about my body and how the whole pregnancy process works. I took a series of tests a month ago and found out that my FSH was on the high side for my age of 35. My doctor said that I should take more aggressive measures to get pregnant. I was on the path to starting on fertility drugs right away but then I found this book. It made me slow down and think a bit. I started seeing an acupuncturist who also provided herbs. I started doing meditation and just destressing. It's been a couple of weeks, and I just took a pregnancy test and it's positive! Even though I probably concieved a few days before having this book, I'm sure the last couple of weeks of practicing what the book recommended had a lot to do with a healthy implantation phase. I wrote to Jill(one of the authors) via their website asking for advise on acupuncture during pregnancy. Taking her advise, I'm continuing acupuncture during first tri-mester to prevent miscarriage. So far so good.
Just enough without confusion.
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This book has been very helpful for me. I had been looking for alternative methods for "fixing" fertility issues rather than going to a specialist and taking synthetic hormones. This was it! Traditional Chinese Medicine. She talks just enough about it without coming off heady and too technical. It's something I understood. She gives very practical advice and step by step instructions. Most of all I liked that she didn't get into all the Chinese philosophy too much. Being a follower of Christ that was really important for me. I am now seeing a TCM doctor that does the same and couldn't be happier. It's only been 7 weeks and I've seen improvement. Warning: This is not a quick fix book but gets to the heart of what's going on in your body.
An invaluable resource
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This is an enlightening, illuminating book. Thanks to Sami & Jill for sharing what our doctors don't have the time (or inclination) to explain.
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