Lockwood / Anthony-Ackery / Meyers-Thompson Fertility and Infertility For Dummies, UK Edition

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-99804-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

This friendly guide combines professional and personal advice on every aspect of fertility and infertility. From deciding when to seek help and what help to seek, to the emotional, fi nancial, and medical considerations of fertility treatments, you'll be reassured every step of the way with all the support and specialist advice you need to increase your chances of a healthy and happy pregnancy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lockwood, Gillian

Anthony-Ackery, Jill

Meyers-Thompson, Jackie

Perkins, Sharon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended.
Chapter 1: In the Beginning.
Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps.
Part II: Planning a Pregnancy.
Chapter 3: We're Trying! We're Trying! (to GetPregnant).
Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP.
Chapter 5: Great Expectations . . . But: Early PregnancyLoss.
Part III: Tests and Investigations.
Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist.
Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2,3.
Chapter 8: It's a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal SpermProblems.
Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions.
Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinicsand Funding Treatment.
Chapter 10: All The 'I's: Introducing IUI, IVF, andICSI.
Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: IntrauterineInsemination (IUI).
Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF.
Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm!
Chapter 14: 'Babies on Ice': Egg Freezing andFertility Treatment.
Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg DonorTreatments.
Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab.
Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You CanDo.
Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Waitafter Embryo Transfer.
Chapter 18: What's in Your Freezer? Frozen EmbryoTransfers.
Chapter 19: If at First You Don't Succeed: Trying IVF Morethan Once.
Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options forNon-Traditional Families.
Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me andBaby Make . . . Four!
Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and SingleMums.
Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices.
Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas.
Part VII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep YouSane!)
Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medicationsand Where to Find Them.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Gillian M. Lockwood BM BCh MA (Oxon) DPhil MRCOG is theMedical Director of Midland Fertility Services(www.midlandfertility.com). Gill was a late recruit to medicine.She read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford Universityand then worked as a Government Statistician. A televisiondocumentary encouraged her to change careers to Medicine and shequalified in 1986. A chance meeting with Professor Robert Edwards(the 'testtube' baby pioneer) introduced her to thescience of IVF and since 1990 she has specialised in ReproductiveMedicine.
For 10 years Gill was Senior Clinical Research Fellow and LeadClinician at the Oxford Fertility Unit, where her researchinterests included polycystic ovary syndrome, premature ovarianfailure, and recurrent miscarriage. She lectures and broadcasts onethical and social issues in reproductive medicine, has chaired theBritish Fertility Society Ethics Sub-Committee, and is a member ofthe RCOG Ethics Committee. She is an Associate Editor of HumanReproduction and a member of the Editorial Board of HumanFertility. She has published over 30 'first author'articles in international journals and has contributed to many textbooks and review publications.
Since 2000 Gill has been the Medical Director of Midland FertilityServices (MFS), in the West Midlands. MFS is a 'nurseled' fertility unit at which the nursing staff perform allprocedures required for IVF including surgical sperm retrieval(TESA), egg retrieval, and embryo transfer. MFS recently announcedthe successful delivery of the UK's first 'frozenegg' babies; a development that has given new hope ofbecoming 'genetic mothers' to the thousands of youngwomen who each year have to undergo sterilising chemotherapy orradiotherapy.
Jill Anthony-Ackery BA (Hons) is the CommunicationsManager at Midland Fertility Services. Jill is a relatively recententrant to the world of fertility treatment, with responsibilityfor the communications and marketing of MFS since 2003, initiallyas a consultant public relations director and then as a member ofthe clinic staff since 2004. Her qualifications for such a role? Adegree in art and film history (!) and 18 years' experiencemanaging the reputations of client companies from a small UK tradeassociation to international cosmetics, steel, and photographicequipment manufacturers. Oh! and also two years of ICSI treatmentat MFS, during which she and her husband Gwyn conceived twins,suffered a miscarriage at around 12 weeks, then had an unsuccessfulfrozen embryo transfer, followed by a second full cycle, resultingin the birth of their daughter Connie in 2002.
When she returned to work in 2003, she combined her almostevangelical zeal about those miracle workers at MFS with herprofessional experience and patient perspective - and gotpaid for doing so! It's a dream job where she continues to beinspired daily by the team and patients.
Jill has written countless articles in a range of newspapers,consumer magazines, and trade publications from many industrysectors. She was also the original editor and a contributor toBeyond the Lens, the business bible for professionalphotographers. In 2006, her work at MFS won a gold award from theChartered Institute of Public Relations and she works closely withnational and regional press, television, and radio to satisfy theunquenchable media interest in assisted conception.
Jackie Meyers-Thompson is managing partner ofCoppock-Meyers Public Relations/For Your InformationCommunications, and a 'professional' fertilitypatient.
Sharon Perkins is the nurse coordinator for the CooperCenter for In Vitro Fertilization in Marlton, New Jersey, one ofthe largest infertility centres in the United States. Shepreviously worked in labour and delivery and neonatal intensivecare.