Making Babies the Hard Way: Living with Infertility and Treatment PDF
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Making Babies the Hard Way of related interest Grief Unseen Healing Pregnancy Loss through the Arts Laura Seftel Foreword by Sherokee Ilse ISBN 978 1 84310 805 4 Sexuality and Fertility Issues in Ill Health and Disability From Early Adolescence to Adulthood Edited by Rachel Balen and Marilyn Crawshaw ISBN 978 1 84310 339 4 Third Party Assisted Conception Across Cultures Social, Legal and Ethical Perspectives Edited by Eric Blyth and Ruth Landau ISBN 978 1 84310 084 3 pb ISBN 978 1 84310 085 0 hb Experiences of Donor Conception Parents, Offspring and Donors through the Years Caroline Lorbach Foreword by Eric Blyth ISBN 978 1 84310 122 2 Fostering Now Messages from Research Ian Sinclair Foreword by Tom Jeffreys, Director General, Children, Families and Young People Directorate, DfES ISBN 978 1 84310 362 2 Relative Grief Parents and Children, Sisters and Brothers, Husbands, Wives and Partners, Grandparents and Grandchildren Talk about their Experience of Death and Grieving Clare Jenkins and Judy Merry Foreword by Dorothy Rowe ISBN 978 1 84310 257 1 Making Babies the Hard Way Living with Infertility and Treatment Caroline Gallup Foreword by William L. Ledger Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia ‘A Blade of Grass’ on pp.96–7 from Love Poems (1991) by Brian Patten reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. © Brian Patten 1991 Quotation on p.97 from The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin (volume 1) (1999) published by Soka Gakkai reprinted by permission of Soka Gakkai. © Soka Gakkai 1999 Quotation on p.97 from A Piece of Mirror and Other Essays (2004) by Daisaku Ikeda reprinted by permission of Soka Gakkai. © Soka Gakkai 2004 Quotation on p.188 from Conquering Infertility (2002) by Alice D. Domar PhD and A. Lesch Kelly reprinted by permission. The definitions in the Glossary from the HFEA Guide to Infertility (2006/2007) are reprinted by permission of HFEA. The definitions in the Glossary from Art of Living are reprinted by permission of SGI-UK. First published in 2007 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 116 Pentonville Road London N1 9JB, UK and 400 Market Street, Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA www.jkp.com Copyright © Caroline Gallup 2007 Foreword copyright © William L. Ledger 2007 The right of Caroline Gallup to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher. Warning: The doing of an unauthorised act in relation to a copyright work may result in both a civil claim for damages and criminal prosecution. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 84310 463 6 ISBN pdf eBook: 978 1 84642 634 6 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear For Bruce One love – it’s now! Contents Acknowledgements 9 Foreword by William L. Ledger 11 Introduction 13 1. ‘It doesn’t make you any less of a man you know’ 15 2. ‘When will I be a grandma?’ 24 3. ‘You may feel a little uncomfortable for a few days’ 32 4. Chauffeur driven to Fertility Central 47 5. ‘And how do you feel about that?’ 60 6. Do we need another man in our lives? 74 7. Treasures of the heart 86 8. The first insemination 98 9. Trials and traumas 110 10. Footprints in the sand 119 11. Good omens and then… 123 12. Constructive communication 134 13. Am I forcing Mother Nature? 146 14. ‘I don’t mind what we do, as long as we decide something’ 162 15. ‘Have you thought about adopting?’ 176 16. In sickness and in health 184 17. ‘I don’t know how to tell you this…’ 195 18. This could be the last time… 205 Epilogue: Past, present and future 217 Glossary and abbreviations 220 Useful addresses 229 Further reading 234 Index 235
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