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Summary: Read the book, followed the advice, got pregnant ! YAY !
Review: A little over a year ago I purchased Getting PRegnant . After 4 years of unnsuccessfully trying to get pregnant, I now have a beautiful baby girl - and I owe it all to this book In fact, after reading every book on the subject I could find, I had just about given up hope. Then a friend told me about this book and said that the New York Review of Books placed it in their Dream Library of the best books in print. I decided to give it one last shot - so I bought it. Consequently, I follwed the advice, and within a few months I got pregnant ! My husband and I are thrilled and my doctor is so pleased he's now recommending the book to all his patients. What made this book so very special for me was that it not only gave all the info about the high tech treatments ( most of which we couldn't afford anyway) it also gave " real solutions" for "real people" - things my husband and I could do on our own to increase our fertility - and those things really do work . It's amazing how some of the simplist things can do so much good. WHen I decided to come to this web site tonight to let others know my experience, I was very surprised to read a comment that said this book wasn't as well written as his others. I dind't find that at all. In fact, one of the reasons I didn't buy this book initially was because I had read his last two books and found them so badly written I couldn't even get half way through. They were confusing and boring. But this book was so full of life and hope and promise, it made me feel great from page one - and I think,somehow, that helped make a difference in getting me to follow the advice. Not only is this book easy to read and understand, my doctor was impressed with the science and the accuracey and that's good enough for me ! So please, if you are having a problem getting pregant, buy this book. If you get it tonight, a year from now you can also have your dream baby, just like I do ! Thank you , thank you, thank you Dr. Lauersen and Collete Bouchez for helping me become a mother !
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Summary: A Great Book - From a Fighter for Women's Rights
Review: After reading the review by "Reader in New York" I just had to add my comments. Yes, Dr. Lauersen, the author of Getting Pregnant, is a convicted felon - but he was convicted because he tried to help women get their fertility treatments covered by their insurance company, by doing dual procedures - a combination surgery and fertility treatment. Because of Dr. Lauersen's case, women of New Jersey, and soon, New York will have laws in place that force insurance companies to pay for their fertility treatments - laws Dr. Lauersen gave up his freedom for. If anything, this man is a hero who has made a significant contribution to women's rights - by fighting an insurance system that pays for a man's Viagra but won't pay for medication to help a woman's ovaries. His book is wonderful - filled with great medical advice and information and if you let this one misinformed person influence you, you will be passing up one of the truly great books on fertility ever written. It has helped many, many women get pregnant and I am certain it can help almost anyone who buys it. Anyone who believes every woman has the right to be a mother, and anyone who truly values the American family, should support Dr. Lauersen, and his books, and not condemn him, or his hard work.
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Summary: A Great Book - From a Fighter for Women's Rights
Review: After reading the review by "Reader in New York" I just had to add my comments. Yes, Dr. Lauersen, the author of Getting Pregnant, is a convicted felon - but he was convicted because he tried to help women get their fertility treatments covered by their insurance company, by doing dual procedures - a combination surgery and fertility treatment. Because of Dr. Lauersen's case, women of New Jersey, and soon, New York will have laws in place that force insurance companies to pay for their fertility treatments - laws Dr. Lauersen gave up his freedom for. If anything, this man is a hero who has made a significant contribution to women's rights - by fighting an insurance system that pays for a man's Viagra but won't pay for medication to help a woman's ovaries. His book is wonderful - filled with great medical advice and information and if you let this one misinformed person influence you, you will be passing up one of the truly great books on fertility ever written. It has helped many, many women get pregnant and I am certain it can help almost anyone who buys it. Anyone who believes every woman has the right to be a mother, and anyone who truly values the American family, should support Dr. Lauersen, and his books, and not condemn him, or his hard work.
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Summary: Another alarmist book
Review: Although I found some parts informative, I found a lot of the info more alarmist than helpful at this stage in my life (30, trying to conceive for the first time about now). It tells you way too much about all the things that can go wrong with fertility, all the things to avoid or else you won't conceive, to get a fertility test etc. Yes it also tells you how to time sex so you have more chance of conceiving fast, and what to eat. But basically, if you are thinking about/have just started to try conceiving, and are not in a particularly "at risk" category (not alcoholic, heavy smoker, HIV or other STDs, drug user, obese, anorexic/bulimic, serious chronic illness) this book will make you think it is really difficult to get pregnant and bring it to term and will stress you rather than help you. It IS normal not to get pregnant immediately, and unless you have been trying for several months unsuccessfully you should not stress (says my OB/GYN!)that you cannot have children. So this book gives way more info than what you need to know right now...
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT, EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND, BOOK.
Review: AN EXCELLENT, EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND BOOK ON FERTILITY. IT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS ALL TECHNIQUES AND SUGGESTIONS IN PLAIN ENGLISH, AND DOES NOT INTIMIDATE EVEN A NEW COMER TO THE SUBJECT. ALSO GIVES MANY HOMEOPATHIC AND NATURAL THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE.
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Summary: Pass it by (again)
Review: As a long time infertility sufferer, I found the first edition a sorry excuse of a book for such a serious subject. The outlandish aspects of the book and the total tone was so upsetting to me that I had wasted my money, and should have invested it in an author that would have taken the subject seriously, and given me the information I needed. Still reading everything I can get my hands on, I decided to give the new edition a try. The book was much larger, figured they got their act together, I went ahead and bought it. I was even more disappointed this time around. Infertility is a disease, and I have never seen any other book written on a disease take such little responsibility to the frame of mind of the reader that is the sufferer of the disease. I, for one, do not appreciate the "cutesy" little titles spewed throughout the book. I am not reading this book for entertainment. I am reading it for information. I don't appreciate a claim that almost everyone can become pregnant when I and so many hundreds of thousands of people are walking around childless. Any educated reader will be offended by this book. There are so many excellent books on the subject, and are being released all the time. Just check the list of other authors customers have bought books from. Please, do not update this book in another 8 years. Dr. Lauersen's previous books were excellent. I own several of them, and many of my friends say they live by his pregnancy books (I have not been so lucky). Pass this one by, and check out the list of related books.
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Summary: Not only is he a convicted felon, serving 7 yrs in prison...
Review: But before he was convicted, his medical license was revoked by the dept. of health for dangerous care, unstable behavior, excessive surgeries and for maiming many women for unwarranted surgeries and brain damaging two babies at birth with forceps (one is in an institution since birth and always will be). Steer clear of anything that has this quack's name on it.
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Summary: Not sure I trust the advise!
Review: Don't know if I would trust this guy's advice after reading the New York Magazine article about him. I found the book very disjointed, and some of the suggestions are just ridiculous.
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Summary: Very Informative
Review: Everything you would want to know about your fertility. The chapters are detailed and gave me the kind of information to target my most fertile time.
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Summary: Very Informative
Review: Everything you would want to know about your fertility. The chapters are detailed and gave me the kind of information to target my most fertile time.
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