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The Impatient Woman's Guide To Getting Pregnant (2012)

by Jean M. Twenge(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1451620705 (ISBN13: 9781451620702)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Can't recommend this enough for any woman who is thinking about trying to get pregnant - whether patient or impatient! It debunks a lot of common myths about trying to conceive in your 30s that will make a lot of women relax. And it's loaded with everything you need to know to arm yourself in the bedroom and out to help you conceive. It's very empowering to understand exactly what it takes to get pregnant and this book also helps keep you realistic in your expectations of how long it will take, etc. Loved it!
review 2: Don't let the sarcasm in the title put you off. This book is an excellent guide for any woman dissatisfied with the standard ob-gyn advice to getting pregnant: stop taking birth control, start taking a prenatal vitamin, and don't worry until af... moreter an entire year of trying. Most don't even recommend charting to try to determine a woman's fertility window. This book is also a fabulous resource for up-to-date research, and the citations for all the scientific studies discussed are listed on pages 205 – 216. The greatest thing the author does is myth bust. All of the women who delayed childbearing until their 30’s – not arbitrarily as the media seems to imply but due to education, career, not having found a suitable partner, student loan debt, financial instability, etc. . . – will be reassured to learn that the frightening statistics about their low chances of conceiving naturally (20% per cycle for 30 year-olds and 5% per cycle for 40 year-olds) are from church birth records in rural France from between 1670 to 1830. Current scientific research puts a woman’s chance of conceiving much higher especially if she is able to time things for the two days before and the day of ovulation. (See pages 31 – 32 and 102 – 105 for more details.) The most helpful sections of the book teach the basics of charting one’s cycles and how to determine the one’s prime fertility window. The author describes the most common methods and their advantages and disadvantages. This is the most helpful preconception books I have read, and the euphemisms in it are priceless.For the really impatient woman, the entire book is summarized in two pages in Appendix A (pages 183 – 184). less

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