Schlagwort(e):
Infertility.
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Electronic books.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
Seiten:
1 online resource (387 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781119998044
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=661823
Sprache:
Englisch
Anmerkung:
Fertility & -- Infertility For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgements -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organised -- Icons Used in This Book -- Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended -- Chapter 1: In the Beginning -- Making Babies: An Inefficient Process at Best -- How Aging Affects Fertility -- Things to Think About Before You Conceive -- Timing Your Baby: The Big Picture -- Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Birth Control -- Gene Genie: Looking at the Family Tree -- Getting Pregnant: Was It Easier for Grandma? -- Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps -- Biology for Baby Makers: Reviewing Male and Female Anatomy -- Putting Male and Female Parts Together: Having Sex (At the Right Time) -- Conceiving a Baby: How Sex Should Work -- Making Sure That You're Healthy - Before Conception -- Behaving Yourself When Trying to Conceive -- Finding Information -- Part II: Planning a Pregnancy -- Chapter 3: We're Trying! We're Trying! (to Get Pregnant) -- Predicting Ovulation: Kits, Sticks, and Software -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Positive Thinking - Home Pregnancy Tests -- Coping with That Time of the Month Again: The Pain of Not Getting Pregnant -- Looking at Your Lifestyle -- Eating for Two? Sampling a Fertility Diet -- Looking at Supplements - Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and More -- Turning to Complementary Therapies -- Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP -- Deciding When the Time is Right to See Dr G Practitioner -- Thinking About FAQs for Your First Visit -- Carrying Out Tests on Your First Visit -- Choosing Over-the-counter Remedies: Placeboes or Simple Solutions? -- Chapter 5: Great Expectations . . . But: Early Pregnancy Loss -- Getting 'a Little Bit' Pregnant - It's Possible -- Suffering a Miscarriage.
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Ectopic Pregnancy: When the Embryo Is Developing in the Wrong Place -- Picking Yourself Up after a Loss -- Part III: Tests and Investigations -- Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist -- Seeking Dr Specialist -- Working with Dr Specialist -- Facing the Stranger in Your Sex Life -- Understanding What Dr Specialist Says -- Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 -- Cataloguing the Common Tests: ABCD HSG -- Understanding Female Infertility Problems -- Reversing Sterilisation -- Understanding Diseases That Affect Fertility -- Chapter 8: It's a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal Sperm Problems -- Sounding Out Semen Analysis -- Interpreting Your Partner's Test Results -- Reversing a Vasectomy -- Overcoming Cancer and Male Fertility: The News Is Cautiously Optimistic -- Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions -- Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinics and Funding Treatment -- Dealing with First Reactions -- Researching Fertility Clinics -- Footing the Bill: Who Will Pay? -- Chapter 10: All The 'I's: Introducing IUI, IVF, and ICSI -- Doing the Groundwork -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Discovering IUI, IVF, and ICSI - the Basics -- Deciding How Long to Keep Trying -- Thinking Ahead: Health Effects of Fertility Treatment -- Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Treating Luteal Phase Defects -- Acquiring Help through AI -- Moving Up to Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation -- Boosting Progesterone -- Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF -- Starting an IVF Cycle: A Roller Coaster Ride of Emotions -- Taking a Shot in the Dark: Time for hCG -- Going for the Gold: The Egg Retrieval -- Doing His Duty: Your Partner Is Busy, Too -- Answering Common Egg Retrieval Questions -- Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm!.
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Understanding How ICSI Works -- Knowing Who Can Benefit from ICSI -- Recognising a Good Sperm When You See One -- Thinking Ahead: Things to Know about ICSI -- Chapter 14: 'Babies on Ice': Egg Freezing and Fertility Treatment -- Freezing Eggs: Coming In from the Cold -- Reaping the Benefits of Egg Freezing -- Completing the Job: Thawing, Fertilisation, and Transfer -- Creating a Storm in a Test Tube - The Controversy over Freezing Eggs -- Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg Donor Treatments -- Using Donor Eggs: The Whys and Wherefores -- Finding an Egg Donor -- Taking Steps to Egg Donation -- Getting Support -- Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab -- Recognising a Good Egg -- Sorting Suitable Sperm -- IVF: Making an Embryo 'in Glass' -- Taking the Call from Embryology -- Grading an Embryo -- Looking at Your Uterine Lining -- Hatching Embryos - Come on Out, Guys -- Blast Off! Considering a Blastocyst Transfer -- 'One Embryo or Two?' -- Transferring Your Embryo -- Keeping Your Feet and Your Spirits Up after the Transfer -- Do's and Don'ts for the Two-Week Wait -- Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You Can Do -- Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Wait after Embryo Transfer -- Technically, You're Pregnant - Waiting for the Proof -- Sensing Every Little Twinge: The Truth about Pregnancy Symptoms -- Preparing for 'But What If?' - Having a Plan B -- Saying 'No' to Home Pregnancy Tests -- Responding to Positive News -- Considering the Next Step If IVF Doesn't Work -- Chapter 18: What's in Your Freezer? Frozen Embryo Transfers -- Facing a Few Facts about Frozen Embryos -- Discovering Why Embryos Are Frozen -- Understanding the Process of Cryopreservation -- Dealing with the Ethical Issues of Embryo Freezing -- Chapter 19: If at First You Don't Succeed: Trying IVF More than Once.
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Calculating the Odds: Success Rates per IVF Cycle -- Going Back for Seconds? Considering Your Options -- I'm Okay, You're Okay - Checking On the State of Your Union -- Exploring Some Controversial Fertility Treatments -- Gearing Up for More Cycles -- Giving Up on Fertility Treatments? Considering When to Let Go -- Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options for Non-Traditional Families -- Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me and Baby Make . . . Four! -- Preparing Yourselves for Using a Donor -- Borrowing from the Sperm Bank -- Using Donor Eggs -- Receiving Donor Embryos - Embryo Adoption -- Surrogacy: Borrowing a Uterus for Nine Months -- Traditional Surrogacy - The Road Less Travelled -- Telling the Family or Keeping It to Yourself -- Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and Single Mums -- Examining the Issues That You May Face as a Same-Sex Couple -- Adoption in the Gay and Lesbian Community -- Going It Alone: Fertility Issues for the Single Parent -- Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices -- Opting to Adopt -- Trying Out Foster Parenting First -- Deciding to Live Child Free -- Working with Children -- Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas -- Looking Down the Road: Long-Term Health Effects of Fertility Medication -- Selecting the Sex: When You Absolutely, Positively, Want a Boy Or a Girl -- Selective Reduction: Making the Hardest Choice -- Dividing Up the Leftover Embryos -- Putting Old Genes into New Skins: Cytoplasmic Transfer -- Posthumous Conception: Legal and Ethical Issues -- Cloning and Human Concerns -- Saving Stem Cells for Research -- 'Welfare of the Child': Asking Clinics to Decide Who's Fit to Parent -- Making Mistakes in the Lab: When Saying You're Sorry Isn't Enough -- Where Is All This Leading? New Fertility Frontiers -- Part VII: The Part of Tens.
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Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep You Sane!) -- Give Yourself Time -- Don't Panic -- Remember You're Not Alone -- Don't Blame Yourself -- Listen to Friends - Occasionally -- Don't Delay Treatment -- Don't Freak about the Financing -- Don't Get Needled about Needles -- Share Your Treatment Experience -- Coming to Terms with No Success -- Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medications and Where to Find Them -- Gonadotrophins -- GnRH Agonists -- GnRH Antagonists -- hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) Intramuscular -- hCG Subcutaneous Recombinant -- Progesterone -- Clomiphene Citrate -- Locating What You Need -- Index.
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