What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting
How to Support Your Wife, Save Your Marriage, and Conquer Infertility!
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2011
208 pages
978-1-62636-735-7 (ISBN)
Description
Marc Sedaka stood by while he and his wife endured endless rounds of drug therapies, sixteen artificial inseminations, ten in-vitro fertilizations, three miscarriages, and, finally, a gestational surrogate ("womb for rent?) who carried their twin girls to term. He was as supportive and loving as he could be, but he really wished he'd had a book like What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting during the process. Most books about dealing with infertility are geared toward women, leaving the man to his own devices when it comes to comfort and encouragement (never a good idea).
With the help of his own infertility doctor, Sedaka provides straightforward guy-friendly advice on situations such as:
With the help of his own infertility doctor, Sedaka provides straightforward guy-friendly advice on situations such as:
- What questions you should ask at the consultations.
- How to help rather than annoy.
- What kinds of tests you and your wife should expect.
- How to console a wife who appears inconsolable.
- How to enjoy procreation sex.
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Marc Sedaka | Gregory Rosen
What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting
How to Support Your Wife, Save Your Marriage, and Conquer Infertility!
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03/2011
Skyhorse Publishing
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- ROUND ONE - THE TRYOUTS
- 1 - WHEN TO START TRYING
- REASONS TO RUSH:
- REASONS TO STALL
- 2 - WHEN TO TRY HARDER
- Procreation Sex
- 3 - WHEN TO WORRY
- Doers vs. Avoiders
- Communicate
- Educate
- Support
- ROUND TWO - SPRING TRAINING
- 4 - THE FERTILITY DOCTOR
- The Invisible Man
- 5 - "WHO ARE YOU?"
- Getting Inside Your Wife's Head (Not As Scary As It Sounds)
- UNIVERSAL TRUTH #1: Fertility-Challenged Women Hate Kids
- UNIVERSAL TRUTH #2: Fertility-Challenged Women Hate When People Talk About Their Fertility-challenged . . . Ness
- UNIVERSAL TRUTH #3: Fertility-Challenged Women Hate to be Compared to Other Fertility-Challenged Women (or Non-fertility-Challenged Women, for that Matter)
- 6 - STARTING TREATMENT
- Tests and More Tests (Wife Psycho Level: 3)
- The Semen Analysis Test
- Leave Your Ego at the Door
- Getting the Results
- 7 - THE ROOM
- The Room in Detail
- How to Prepare
- Other Important Tips
- Separating Fact from Fiction
- 8 - GETTING THE RESULTS
- And if there is a Problem?
- Superstitions, Alternative Medicines, and Other Mumbo-jumbo
- ROUND THREE - THE GAME
- 9 - THE MINOR LEAGUES: STIMULATING DRUGS AND ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
- Fertility Drugs (Wife Psycho Level: 5)
- Clomid
- You Got Anything a Little Stronger?
- Self-Service Injections
- Artificial Insemination (Wife Psycho Level: 2)
- Staying the Course vs. Moving On
- But what if my wife and I disagree?
- 10 - THE MAJOR LEAGUES: IN VITRO FERTILIZATION
- What is "In Vitro Fertilization"?
- "So How Does it All Work? (In 200 Words or Less, Please.)"
- Your Wife the Drug Addict
- So all These Drugs are Administered Orally, Right?
- Are there any possible side effects?
- So What Can I do About It?
- The Retrieval
- Making an Embryo
- Yes, You Can Love One Kid More.
- Moving Back In with Mom
- The 12 Days from Hell (Wife Psycho Level: 9)
- But At Least The Shots are Over, Right?
- Getting the Results
- 11 - A SWING AND A MISS: WHAT TO DO IF IT DOESN'T WORK
- Don't Downplay Failure. It is a Big Deal.
- Flowers Might Not be the Answer
- No One is to Blame
- Respect Her Wishes
- Tom's Story
- 12 - GOING INTO EXTRA INNINGS: HOW MANY TIMES CAN WE DO THIS SHIT?
- Switching Doctors: Is it Worth it?
- "But What if the Doctor Drops Us?"
- 13 - THE CHANGE-UP: EXPLORING OTHER OPTIONS
- Using a Sperm or Egg Donor
- "How Does Egg Donation Work?"
- "And How Does One Find an Egg Donor?"
- "So How Much are Eggs Going for These Days?"
- "But We Can Find a Woman Who Looks Just Like My Wife, Right?"
- Frank's Story
- Donor Eggs with a Side of Surrogate, Please.
- Embryo Adoption
- Immune Therapies
- Gestational Surrogacy
- Finding a Surrogate
- "Very sweet. But how much does this shit cost?"
- "So how does gestational surrogacy work?"
- Dave's Story
- 14 - SUCCESS AT LAST!
- ROUND FOUR - THE POSTGAME ANALYSIS
- AFTERWORD
- INDEX
