The Complete Fertility Organizer : A Guidebook and Record Keeper for Women

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Summary: don't waste your money
Review: but rather use a simple note book you can arrange as you want. Every person has a different problem and different needs, so I don't think this one can serve for all. I am going to send it back to Amazon.

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Summary: Designed to assist you in organizing your infertility care.
Review: Dear Reader, Do you think you may have difficulty becoming pregnant? Are you currently involved in infertility treatment? If so, this book may be exactly what you need to help you gain a sense of control during an often complicated and emotional process. My own experiences with infertility inspired me to write this book, because I had a difficult time keeping track of all the information that accompanied infertility care. The only book of its kind, THE COMPLETE FERTILITY ORGANIZER: A GUIDEBOOK AND RECORD-KEEPER FOR WOMEN, is designed to assist you in maintaining a sense of control during the process, while fostering a collaborative relationship with your physician. My goal was to make the ORGANIZER a useful companion along your path to motherhood. The ORGANIZER provides charts in which you can keep track of your medical history, infertility test results, procedures, and medications, as well as extensive temperature and symptom charts, logs for insurance information, references, questions & answers, and more. It includes guides to the basic infertility evaluation, as well as miscarriage and premature labor prevention (to promote a healthy pregnancy if you do become pregnant). There is also a place to create your own "personal conception plan"--a method for gaining and maintaining direction during the infertility process. Through organization of all the complex information associated with infertility, you can gain a sense of control and calm. It is my sincere hope that this book will assist you through the infertility experience, and towards a healthy pregnancy. Yours truly, Manya DeLeon Miller

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Summary: A response from the author?
Review: I am saddened that one reader felt this way about THE COMPLETE FERTILITY ORGANIZER. I wrote this book to assist a woman in gaining a sense of control over her fertility, by providing information about fertility, infertility diagnosis and treatment, references, and a centralized location in which she may keep all of her own medical information. There are also sections which assist a woman to explore the emotional/spiritual side of the (often very stressful) infertility process. The book is designed to accommodate all degrees of infertility; it also has a section to track essential information when a woman does become pregnant. Please read my letter to readers (in editorial section above) so you will know exactly what this book contains; and I truly hope you'll find my book, with its comprehensive information and organizational tools, a good value. I have heard reports from many women who have found this book a valuable resource, and hope that others do, too.

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Summary: A response from the author¿
Review: I am saddened that one reader felt this way about THE COMPLETE FERTILITY ORGANIZER. I wrote this book to assist a woman in gaining a sense of control over her fertility, by providing information about fertility, infertility diagnosis and treatment, references, and a centralized location in which she may keep all of her own medical information. There are also sections which assist a woman to explore the emotional/spiritual side of the (often very stressful) infertility process. The book is designed to accommodate all degrees of infertility; it also has a section to track essential information when a woman does become pregnant. Please read my letter to readers (in editorial section above) so you will know exactly what this book contains; and I truly hope you'll find my book, with its comprehensive information and organizational tools, a good value. I have heard reports from many women who have found this book a valuable resource, and hope that others do, too.

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Summary: a book for women who are ready to control their fertility
Review: I expect that I will find this book invaluable, as will many women who want to be in control of their fertility. So many books out there overwhelm- expecting the reader is looking for emotional help rather than practical help. This book chooses to address the reader with kindness and compassion, but still provides real-life answers and a way to control the process. Ms. Miller's book is informative and practical, a must have for anyone trying to get pregnant. This book answers questions and makes sense of medical jargon and daunting terms, while also telling the reader the essential questions to ask. I am so pleased someone wrote a book like this.

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Summary: Essential route to organizing your fertility efforts
Review: I seldom find the time to add my voice to Amazon reviews - but in this case I felt compelled to do so in order to assist the author in combatting a less-than-postive reviewer!

Unfortunately, my copy of this book is now full, dog-eared and showing signs of having been consulted too many times. BUT, this book has helped me enormously to keep up with the sheer volume of information given to me by doctors during my quest to become pregnant. It is not my only reference source on infertility to be sure...but it is not designed to be. Along with some basic information on the pregnancy process and infertility methods, what this book really is now - is a reference source on ME and my fight gainst infertility! I feel it is invaluable for people facing these challenges to have one place to keep everything straight. It is so important to take charge of your own issues -getting pregnant for some is a long ride - and if you are on this ride you must take part in the driving. The world of overworked fertility doctors is vast - just look around the waiting room if you don't believe me...I cannot count the number of times I have been in one appointment or another and have had the correct information on my status at my fingertips faster than my physician because this book was open on my lap!

I have given my mother - director of a public library -- the name as well, so she could add a sample copy to her shelves. Maybe then, women facing issues getting pregnant might see it, buy a copy for themselves and start taking charge of their cycles, emotions and actively managing their fertility plans.

My only critique is that I need more pages in mine...

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Summary: Finally.
Review: My women's group thought very highly of this- there is nothing else like it out there. I had many questions and they were answered in spades.

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Summary: Helpful book
Review: This is a pretty helpful book. You can keep track of your medical history, etc. in it. It helps out when you are taking your meds too- you just record them in there so that you remember when you took them and how much the dose was.

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Summary: An ESSENTIAL guidebook that keeps YOU in control
Review: This is a useful guidebook which helps inform and organize you through an often frustrating process. The book does a wonderful job of bringing detailed medical jargon into fully understandable layman's terms. It takes complicated processes and makes them simple to follow. This guidebook will help you keep together all the data necessary to feel organized and in control while undergoing fertility treatment. A "must have" for any woman involved in this process!

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Summary: Gaining some degree of control!
Review: This organizer is a wonderful way to chart and record all pertinent information as well as the overwhelming thoughts on your fertility. As someone going through the trauma of problems conceiving it gave (and gives me still) some semblance of control over my situation. The practical purpose of this volume is clear, the emotional benefit was a surprise. The maze of infertility information "out there" is almost as daunting to tackle as the task of overcoming the challenges some of us face in becoming pregnant, but this book allows you to gain some control by organizing yourself, your efforts to conceive, the information sources you have consulted in this quest, your medical history and your plan to ultimately take home a healthy baby. Wonderful!