I finished reading Inconceivable: Winning the Fertility Game by Julia Indichova this weekend. It is about a woman who gradually decides to change her eating habits and lifestyle to a healthy way of living in order to conceive her second daughter. The book was published in 1997, so any of the information that she shares isn’t too alternative in this day and age, but I loved reading her story and especially loved her book recommendations, that I will pass along, and her sharing of stories of other women she has met through her alternative quest.
And as an added bonus to me, since reading her book, I have begun to use my home juicer again and have sought out our local juice bar for tri-weekly hits of wheat-grass that I enjoy much more than I thought that I would. I even have a punch card there now.
Indichova used her own combination of juicing fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, diet, yoga, acupuncture and additional natural treatments with various practitioners to lower her level of follicle stimulating hormone, which at diagnosis was 42. At this number her doctor sent her to fertility doctors who immediately suggested use of an egg donor or surrogate. And while ser and her husband did decide to pursue ART, her own techiniques began to work in the meantime and they ultimately only took one dose of fertility drugs. I love a story where the main character knows more about her own body than anyone else! I’m a sucker for a happy ending, whichever way it comes about.
In this book, she also describes what it is like to deal with secondary infertility. She talks about the guilt, the grief and the uncertainty involved in dealing with herself, her husband, her child and others as she goes through the steps of learning about and dealing with her infertility.
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