Getting Pregnant The Hard Way: Surviving Subfertility & IVF

This is a true story. It is an honest and incredibly personal account of one woman’s battle to have her own much longed for children. After Hannah was told she would be very unlikely to conceive naturally, words every woman dread but never really expect to hear, she began a five year fight to get pregnant.
She writes candidly about the invasive and intimate procedures she faced that may or may not help her to conceive, the endless hospital appointments she must attend and spares no detail of the intrusive examinations and operations she put herself through, fitting it all into and around the stresses and strains of daily life. She tells of the crushing disappointment after each failed procedure and IVF cycle and the unbearable jealousy when her friends start families of their own. Her story ends with her yearned for pregnancy. She is finally rewarded with her determination on her fifth cycle of IVF when Hannah becomes pregnant and gives birth to beautiful twin girls.
If you or someone you know is dealing with fertility issues or IVF than this book is a must read. It will tell you everything you need to know about IVF, what you will have to do, what the drugs do, how it will affect mind, body and soul and also how Hannah dealt with the ethics of creating a human life with help. It will inspire hope and it implores you not to give up, to believe in and to visualize what you really want. A happy ending can be possible. Last but not least it will show you that you are not alone, each year thousands of women out there are dealing with the same issues. Only by discussing this taboo subject openly and honestly without fear of shame and embarrassment can we hope to open up the closed world of infertility.