When you start thinking about having children, doubts assail. What if we have to have sex on such a day, or another.
Or maybe better to use this posture, or the other, and lift your legs.
You may have even heard of foods that improve fertility, or rituals that help you get pregnant.
Sometimes, you come to ask yourself certain doubts about your fertility or that of your partner. You may have read an article, or perhaps you had not considered this issue yet, and it all comes back to you.
It is even possible that if the pregnancy does not come, doubt even your virility (And beware, fertility is not the same as virility).
How much is true in everything you read online? And of the urban legends that run around, what can you believe?
Look, of urban legends, almost better not believe anything. From what you read on the internet ... almost not 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 are going to look at different approaches to fertility, and ways to improve your chances of getting pregnant.
Books on Fertility and Feeding
These types of books focus on fertility from one of its pillars: food. When looking for a pregnancy, a series of ingredients must be taken into account that can help improve the chances of becoming pregnant, as well as healthy habits that help the couple to eliminate stress and to 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 over 25 years. In this book, in which he has teamed up with Christine Bailey for the recipes they propose, he raises different strategies to improve your fertility through diet.
The best of 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 carry a healthy baby, as well as the diet that you can also eat with your partner to improve your chances of conceiving. In addition, both authors address frequent doubts about pregnancy and its preparation (such as the usefulness -or not- of the famous folic acid before getting positive and during pregnancy).
The best of this fertility book: It also includes feeding in search of fertility in cases such as celiac disease, vegetarianism or veganism, women who are overweight or lactose intolerant.
The kitchen of fertility, by Andrea Carucci (link)
Andrea Carucci focuses the thesis of her book - and of her career as a nutritionist and naturopath - that healthy and fertile eating does not have to be boring and unsatisfactory, on the contrary.
The recipes that Andrea proposes are intended to change eating habits and transform them into healthier ones focused on conception.
Carucci compares the relationship with food with a notebook in which each meal is recorded: if we consume processed foods, we are writing down incorrect information to this book and that will have consequences such as stress or illness.
The best of this book: the recipes he proposes are so appetizing that it is difficult to decide on just one.
What books treat fertility from the informative and scientific field?
But man does not live (and reproduce) only on food, right?
We also want to review the 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 tips to maximize the chances of conceiving. It is a simple book to understand, which makes very clear the functioning of the woman's cycle, and how to apply this knowledge to the search for pregnancy.
The best of this book: a very complete view of fertility, and ease of understanding thanks to the graphs they include. Helps to 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 rare 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 solves doubts before you even have them.
Hormonal Balance for Your Fertility, by Robert Greene (link)
Endocrinologist Robert Greene considers fertility as a path in which there is much more than assisted reproductive treatments. His book exposes 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 go to expensive treatments).
Fertility books and pregnancy search 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 takes longer than expected, it has clear consequences on the emotional health of both members of the couple, so attending to fertility from the point of view of emotions is also essential to cope as well 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. Provides resources and practical tools to control emotions that couples they can feel. Its reading is also useful for the closest relatives and health 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 person. From the beginning there are practical exercises to be able to apply them both in the notebook itself and in your day to day. By Angeles 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 glimpse of hope to couples who are on this path of looking for a baby.
The best of this book: the positive vision of the most complicated 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 search for pregnancy, this is our first selection, but… are you missing any?
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