This book – Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility
Making Babies is a slightly different twist on the basic science of fertility: it incorporates a MD’s surgical perspective and a Chinese medical practitioner’s perspective – hence the tag line “a program for maximum fertility.”
As an instruction manual in the science of tracking temperature and ovulation, this book does not do as great a job as Taking Charge of Your Fertility does.
However, and this is a huge however, this book gives you the rest of the non-surgical, non-IVF fertility picture. What do I mean by that? There is a lot more out there that can impact fertility than just knowing when, exactly, you ovulate.
Let me put it another way. Mastering your cycle and perfecting your knowledge of your own body’s fertility is a huge step towards giving yourself the best chances of getting pregnant. However, there is still a lot you can do before you ever have to resort to something as invasive and expensive as IVF, and this book covers that gap. And wow – it is a large gap. The two wonderful doctors who wrote this book filled in the much needed space between.
If you are having trouble getting pregnant, know that I always recommend Taking Charge of Your Fertility. The number of people I know that have gotten pregnant using that book, and avoided the frustration of thinking they weren’t fertile when trying to get pregnant, is huge.
But if you are still having trouble after charting for a while, or if you have charted for a while and found you are not ovulating regularly, this book is the next step. The only reason I wouldn’t recommend starting with it is because it is so full of information – stuffed to the gills, actually – that I found it a little overwhelming to absorb, and I had already heard of most of it. If I were new to the pregnancy and fertility game, this book would almost be overwhelming. Also, it does not have the easy tear-out charts that make it so easy to start tracking.
However, as a reference, and a next steps resource, there is no comparison. If you are considering IVF or experiencing any kind of pregnancy frustration, this is the book for you. Consider it one big giant how-to pregnancy tip!
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