Mayo Clinic guide to fertility and conception Expertise from leading fertility specialists for maximizing reproductive health and growing your family
Book - 2024
"Deciding to add a baby to your family is full of unknowns. How long will it take to get pregnant? How will age and other factors play into your chances of conceiving? If you need some help, what are your options? Many of these questions have different answers for every person and every pregnancy. With Mayo Clinic Guide to Fertility and Conception, you can take on the adventure of trying for a baby with clear, empathetic guidance. Based on their extensive expertise in helping people build their families, Mayo Clinic physicians break down what contributes to healthy eggs and sperm, steps you can take to get ready for pregnancy, how babies are made, and tips for ovulation tracking, timing sex, and improving your chances. This comprehens...ive guide also demystifies miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies, as well as many common fertility problems. In addition, the authors offer the latest on reproductive assistance, third-party reproduction, and fertility preservation, and the many options now available to help all families, including LGBTQ, transgender and single parents-to-be, achieve the dream of having a baby. Color medical illustrations and graphics throughout help this user-friendly book provide answers and explanations on nearly every aspect of achieving a successful pregnancy. With sensitivity and an inclusive approach, it's an essential guide for anyone who wants to have a baby"--
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Rochester, MN :
Mayo Clinic Press
[2024]
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- Second edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 302 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9798887700588
- Part 1. Getting Ready for Pregnancy
- Chapter 1. Lifestyle and healthy habits for fertility
- Exercise
- The evidence for exercise
- Exercise and weight
- Athletes and fertility
- Getting started
- Weight
- Why it matters
- Managing weight
- Sleep
- Sleep and, your overali health
- Nightshifts and fertility
- Stress
- Your body and stress
- Fertility and stress
- Sex and stress
- Alcohol, tobacco and other toxins
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Marijuana
- Other recreational drugs
- Environmental exposures
- Diet
- Chapter 2. Healthy eating for conception
- Is there a "fertility diet?"
- Carbohydrates: Natural, not processed
- Simple and complex carbs
- Carbs and blood sugar
- Carbs and fertility
- Dietary fats: Go for good fats
- Avoid trans fats
- Healthier daily habits
- Protein: Eat more beans and nuts
- Make a protein plan
- Dairy: Creamier is better
- Caffeine and conception
- Focus on your health
- Chapter 3. Additional preparations
- Going off birth control
- Medications and supplements
- Prenatal vitamins
- Prescription vs. over-the-counter
- Vaccinations
- Vaccines during pregnancy
- Vaccines and fertility
- Chronic medical conditions
- Genetic tests
- Take heart
- Chapter 4. Producing healthy sperm
- Sperm health and fertility
- Quantity
- Structure
- Movement
- How to improve sperm health
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Eat a healthy diet
- Exercise
- Manage stress Prevent and treat infections
- What to avoid
- Chapter 5. Family-building options for single and LGBTQ+ parents
- Single parents
- Women without a male partner
- Men without a female partner
- Same-sex couples
- Female couples
- Male couples
- Transgender and gender-diverse parents
- Transgender men
- Transgender women
- Adoption and third-party reproduction
- Part 2. How To Get Pregnant
- Chapter 6. How babies are made
- Reproductive organs
- The female reproductive system
- The male reproductive system
- Ovulation
- Fertilization
- Implantation
- Pregnancy
- Multiple babies
- Chapter 7. Ovulation and your fertility window
- Your menstrual cycle
- The follicular phase: Prep time
- The ovulatory phase: Go time
- The luteal phase: Resolution time
- Your fertility window
- Use a calendar
- Monitor your temperature
- Watch for cervical changes
- Putting it all together
- Apps, devices and other products that can help
- Ovulation predictor kits
- Fertility monitors
- Apps and wearable tech
- Other devices
- Don't be afraid to seek help
- Chapter 8. Tips for increased odds of success
- Plan ahead
- Know your window
- Finding your window
- What to know about frequency
- Forget about positions and routines
- Avoid most lubricants
- Have fun
- Frequent sex and semen quality
- Don't forget about the rest of your relationship
- Chapter 9. Are you pregnant?
- Early signs and symptoms
- Tender, swollen breasts
- Fatigue
- Slight bleeding or cramping
- Nausea with or without vomiting
- Food aversions or cravings
- Increased urination
- Headaches and dizziness
- Mood swings
- Raised basal body temperature
- Home pregnancy tests
- Reading the results
- Test accuracy
- Follow-up blood test
- When to see a healthcare professional
- Bleeding
- Emergency symptoms
- Miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy
- Chapter 10. Pregnancy loss and ectopic pregnancy
- Miscarriage
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Getting medical attention
- Recovery
- Recurrent pregnancy loss
- Causes
- Evaluation
- Treatment
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Signs and symptoms
- Treatment
- Future pregnancies
- Recovery after pregnancy loss
- Emotional recovery
- Physical recovery
- Part 3. Common Fertility Problems
- Chapter 11. Age, fertility and pregnancy
- Female reproductive life span
- Female fertility and age
- Fertility over the years
- What about today?
- Related risks
- Pregnancy loss
- Chromosomal abnormalities
- Other complications
- Male fertility and age
- Effect on pregnancy rates
- Health of aging sperm
- Related risks
- When to seek help
- Chapter 12. Guide to fertility problems
- Ovulation and female hormone issues
- Thyroid prob!ems
- Elevated prolactin
- Hypothalamic dysfunction
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Premature ovarian insufficiency
- Luteal phase deficiency
- Female structural and anatomical issues
- Fallopian tube damage or blockage
- Endometriosis
- Adenomyosis
- Uterine conditions
- Congenital abnormalities
- Cervical narrowing or blockage
- Sperm problems
- What causes a low sperm count?
- When there's no sperm
- Male structural and anatomical issues
- Varicoceles
- Undescended testicles
- Sperm duct abnormalities
- Hypospadias
- Tumors
- Male hormone imbalances
- Primary hypogonadism
- Secondary hypogonadism
- Ejaculation issues
- Retrograde ejaculation and anejaculation
- Erectile dysfunction
- Male chromosome defects
- Evaluating infertility: A summary
- Unexplained infertility
- Part 4. When You Need Some Help
- Chapter 13. Seeing a doctor
- When to see a doctor
- Whom should you see?
- What to expect
- Medical history
- Physical exam
- Fertility tests
- Fertility tests
- Semen analysis
- Scrotal ultrasound
- Ovulation tests
- Ovarian reserve tests
- Uterine and fallopian tube tests
- Hormone tests
- Keeping a positive outlook
- Chapter 14. Medications
- Many options
- Fertility medications
- Clomiphene
- Aromatase inhibitors
- Gonadotropins
- Human chorionic gonadotropin
- Metformin
- Medications for specific conditions
- Chapter 15. Fertility-related surgeries
- Surgery options to treat infertility
- Fibroids
- Uterine polyps
- Endometriosis
- Adenomyosis
- Müllerian anomalies
- Esthmocele
- Asherman's syndrome
- Obstruction of the fallopian tubes
- Hydrosalpinx
- Tubal ligation reversal
- Varicocele
- Obstruction of the epididymis or ejaculatory tract
- Vasectomy reversal
- Looking ahead
- Chapter 16. Reproductive assistance: IUI and IVF
- Intrauterine insemination
- Why do IUI?
- How IUI works
- After the procedure
- Risks
- Assisted reproductive technology
- The first IVF babies
- IVF today
- How IVF works
- Superovulation
- Egg retrieval
- Sperm collection or retrieval
- Fertilization
- Embryo transfer
- Freezing extra embryos
- Risks of IVF
- Alternative ART methods
- Zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZFT)
- Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT)
- Assisted hatching
- Preimplantation genetic testing
- Financial costs of ART
- The success of ART
- Extra embryos
- Understanding IVF failure
- Treating infertility: A summary
- Chapter 17. Third-party reproduction
- Donor eggs
- Do you need donor eggs?
- How egg donation works
- Donor sperm
- Do you need donor sperm?
- How donor sperm works
- Donor embryos
- Gestational carriers and surrogates
- Do you need a gestational carrier?
- How gestational carriers work
- Selecting a donor or carrier
- Egg donor
- Sperm donor
- Gestational carrier
- Directed donor or carrier
- Costs and contracts
- Donor sperm
- Donor eggs
- Donor embryos
- Gestational carriers
- Directed donors
- Take your time
- Part 5. Support And Special Considerations
- Chapter 18. Coping and support for infertility
- Stress and infertility
- Causes of stress
- Sexual dysfunction
- Coping techniques
- Support groups and counseling
- Other coping techniques
- Chapter 19. Fertility preservation
- Reasons for fertility preservation
- Cancer
- Other medical conditions
- Personal reasons
- Seeing a specialist
- Options for people with ovarian tissue
- Embryo cryopreservation
- Egg cryopreservation
- Ovarian tissue freezing
- Radiation shielding
- Ovarian transposition
- Conization and radical trachelec?omy
- Options for people with testicular tissue
- Sperm cryo preservation
- Radiation shielding
- Looking forward
- Chapter 20. Other options
- When to consider alternatives
- Deciding with a partner
- Adoption
- Issues to consider
- Selecting an adoption resource
- How to begin the process
- Forums and support groups
- Child-free living
- Facts about child-free living
- The benefits of child-free living
- Other ways to get involved with children
- Finding support
- Additional resources
- Index