Resources for Fertility and Infertility
Childbirth
Connection's Fertility and Infertility Resource
Planning
Pregnancy: Pre-Pregnancy CheckupIn our section called The Stages of Pregnancy, we have outlined the planning of your pregnancy, each stage of pregnancy, giving birth, and the early period after birth. This link is devoted to fertility and infertility while planning for your pregnancy.
Resources for General Fertility Information
  | Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth
Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (2006), by Toni Weschler. First introduced in 1980, the book received praise for presenting a comprehensive look at stress, its physical manifestations, and the multiple ways it can be managed. Twenty years later, its well-organized chapters on breathing, relaxation, meditation, thought stopping, and body awareness still guide the reader through copious self-help techniques to try and, eventually, master. Learn more about Taking Charge of Your Fertility from Amazon  |
Taking Charge of Your Fertility (website): the Fertility Awareness Method, web-based fertility charting, and the fertility community message boards
Fertility Plus: includes resources for beginning and advances fertility issues, infertility FAQs, online resources, miscarriage, and humor
Planned Parenthood: Fertility Awareness-Based Methods: ways to chart fertility patterns and help for determining when you are fertile
Planned Parenthood: Fertility Planning Chart (PDF): downloadable chart to help keep track of signs and patterns of fertility
Feminist Women's Health Center: Fertility Awareness: information about the Fertility Awareness Method which helps a woman determine which days of the month she will most likely get pregnant
Resolve: The National Infertility Association: Optimizing Fertility
Resources for Helping with Infertility
Resolve: The National Infertility Association: a website with resources for learning, coping and taking action Infertility Resources for Consumers: a hub for infertility education, services and products
American Society for Reproductive Medicine: a wide range of reproductive resources for patients, including infertility
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Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.
Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.
Most recent page update: 9/7/2012