When you start thinking about having children, doubts arise. What if we have to have sex on this day or that day.
Or perhaps better to use this posture, or the other, and raise your legs.
You may have even heard of foods that improve fertility, or rituals that help you get pregnant.
Sometimes, you come to have certain doubts about your fertility or that of your partner. You may have read an article, or perhaps you had not yet considered this topic, and it all comes back to you.
It is even possible that if the pregnancy does not occur, doubt even your virility (and be careful, fertility is not the same as virility).
How much truth is there in everything you read online? And of the urban legends that run around, what can you believe?
Look, when it comes to urban legends, it's almost better not to believe anything. From what you read on the internet... almost no better either.
In the same way that when you want to learn anything else, you read a book... fertility is the same.
There are many books on fertility and the search for pregnancy, and today we want to help you with this article to decide on the one that best suits you according to your situation.
We're going to look at different approaches to fertility, and ways to improve your chances of getting pregnant.
Books about fertility and nutrition
These types of books focus on fertility from one of its pillars: food. When you are looking for a pregnancy, you have to take into account a series of ingredients that can help improve the chances of getting pregnant, as well as some healthy habits that help the couple to eliminate stress and increase your chances of conceiving.
What to eat to get pregnant, by Zita West (link)
Zita West is a fertility expert who has been helping couples get pregnant for more than 25 years. In this book, in which he has teamed up with Christine Bailey for the recipes they propose, he presents different strategies to improve your fertility through food.
The best thing about this fertility book: addresses specific fertility problems such as polycystic ovaries, advanced age or endometriosis.
The fertility and pregnancy diet, by María de la Calle and Onica Ormija (link).
In this book, the two fertility specialists focus on the nutrients that are necessary to conceive a healthy baby, as well as the diet that you can also follow with your partner to improve the chances of conceiving. In addition, both authors address common doubts surrounding pregnancy and its preparation (such as the usefulness - or not - of the famous folic acid before getting the positive test and during pregnancy).
The best thing about this fertility book: It also contemplates nutrition in search of fertility in cases such as celiac disease, vegetarianism or veganism, overweight or lactose intolerant women.
The Fertility Kitchen, by Andrea Carucci (link)
Andrea Carucci focuses the thesis of her book - and of her career as a nutritionist and naturopath - on the fact that healthy and fertile eating does not have to be boring and unsatisfactory, on the contrary.
The recipes that Andrea proposes aim to change eating habits and transform them into healthier ones focused on conception.
Carucci compares the relationship with food to a notebook in which each meal is recorded: if we consume processed foods, we are writing down incorrect information in this book and that will have consequences such as stress or illness.
The best of this book: The recipes it proposes are so appetizing that it is difficult to decide on just one.
What books deal with fertility from an informative and scientific perspective?
But man does not live (and reproduce) on food alone, right?
We also want to review books that talk about the search for pregnancy from a broader perspective.
Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler. (link)
In this book, the author focuses on explaining fertility from a scientific and practical point of view, and gives advice to maximize your chances of conceiving. It is a simple book to understand, which makes it very clear how the woman's cycle works, and how to apply this knowledge to the search for pregnancy.
The best of this book: very complete vision of fertility, and ease of understanding thanks to the graphs they include. Helps understand the symptothermal method.
The Menstruation Revolution is a book that takes a tour of the fundamentals of menstrual health from a health point of view. It focuses on the physiology of women while maintaining a feminist approach that is unusual in this type of literature but which is attractive and which many will enjoy reading.
The best thing about this book: its author, Xusa Sanz, makes easy what is sometimes difficult to explain and resolves doubts before you even have them.
Hormonal balance for your fertility, by Robert Greene (link)
Endocrinologist Robert Greene presents fertility as a path in which there is much more than assisted reproduction treatments. Her book explains the importance of health and hormonal balance in fertility, and that factors such as environmental pollution or inadequate diets can lead to problems conceiving.
The best of this book: you learn about fertility, hormonal balance, and fertility problems can be solved with changes in diet or exposure to toxins (and without having to resort to very expensive treatments).
Books about fertility and the search for pregnancy from the point of view of emotions
The search for pregnancy is, above all, a very important event in the life of a couple. If this search lasts longer than expected, it has clear consequences on the emotional health of both members of the couple, so addressing fertility from the perspective of emotions is also essential to cope with it as best as possible.
There are many thoughts and feelings experienced by a woman who is immersed in a fertility process. This book has been designed precisely to support those who face the difficulty of having a child. Offers practical resources and tools to control emotions that couples they can feel. Reading it is also useful for close family members and healthcare personnel, so that they understand and develop empathy with the emotions that go hand in hand with infertility.
The best thing about this book: easy to understand and interpret in one's own person. From the beginning there are practical exercises to be able to apply them both in the notebook itself and in your daily life. By Ángeles Urrea.
In search of fertility, Carmen Jonnes.(link)
The author presents the book from her own experience of searching for pregnancy. She herself went through moments of despair, and she tells it in the first person to give a glimmer of hope to couples who find themselves on this path of looking for a baby.
The best of this book: the positive vision of the most complicated part of the search for pregnancy, and its philosophy of: “it is not an obsession, it is an illusion.”
There are many books on fertility and the search for pregnancy, this is our first selection, but... are you missing any?
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