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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – After a few months of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child, more couples than ever before are being referred to infertility clinics. And while fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical, and technological intervention, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Sami David and acupuncturist Jill Blakeway know a better, more natural way.
In their book MAKING BABIES: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility(Little, Brown; August 12, 2009; Hardcover; $25.99), Dr. David and Ms. Blakeway offer a proven 3-month program designed to help any couple get pregnant, through a marriage of their respective professions: Western and Chinese medicine.
MAKING BABIES presents a three-month program designed to prepare the body for healthy, natural conception. It covers the basics of how the human reproductive system works (you might be surprised by what you learn!) and the lifestyle factors that can impede or enhance fertility. David and Blakeway also clarify nutrition for optimal fertility, both what to eat and which supplements to take, and not to take.
David and Blakeway have developed five fertility types based on their collective clinical experience: Tired, Dry, Stuck, Pale, and Waterlogged. (Almost all Western infertility diagnoses divide neatly into these Chinese medicine categories.) Readers take a quiz to find out which type they are—and which combination of types—and then they can turn the page to find tailored advice and insight on the possible causes of their fertility problems, lifestyle choices that could enhance fertility, to surprising strategies for increasing fertility, such as taking cough medicine, decreasing doses of fertility drugs, or getting acupuncture along with IVF.
MAKING BABIES demonstrates that with careful diagnosis, basic fertility education, and simple but detailed diet and lifestyle advice, many couples using ARTs (assisted reproductive technology) could conceive much more naturally. If any drugs or other interventions turn out to be necessary, minimal doses and less invasive procedures can be used, reducing risks as well as unpleasant side effects—all while increasing success rates. And the risks are real. Studies have shown that birth defects are thirty percent more likely with IVF. Repeated rounds of fertility hormones can lead to cancer. Unused embryos present thorny ethical problems around the issue of disposal.
MAKING BABIES is a must-have for every woman trying to conceive, whether naturally or through medical intervention. Dr. David and Blakeway are revolutionizing the fertility field, one baby at a time.
About the authors:
Dr. Sami David was the first doctor to successfully perform IVF in New York. He is a reproductive endocrinologist who focuses on conservative approaches to infertility. Jill Blakeway is a licensed Acupuncturist and Board Certified Herbalist, and founder and clinical director or the YinOva Center, an alternative health service for women in New York City. She has been called a “fertility goddess” by the New York Times.
MAKING BABIES:
A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility
By Dr. Sami David and Jill Blakeway
Little, Brown
On sale: August 12, 2009
Hardcover / $25.99 / 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0316024503
ISBN-13: 978-0316024501
www.makingbabiesprogram.com
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