Navigating Your Fertility as a Woman in Medicine

Name: Navigating Your Fertility as a Woman in Medicine
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781667896212
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By Jenna Miller, MD

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Dr Jenna Miller recounts her seven-year journey through infertility as a woman in medicine, blending personal experience with practical advice. The book covers the history of women in medicine, key fertility terminology, and various family-building options such as IVF, gestational carriers, and adoption. It highlights the unique challenges of managing fertility treatments alongside demanding medical careers, offering tips for navigating night shifts and inflexible schedules. Helpful To Do lists accompany each stage of the fertility journey.
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Ideal for medical professionals and women balancing high-pressure careers with family planning, as well as anyone interested in realistic, informed guidance on infertility and nontraditional paths to parenthood.

This book narrates the author's infertility story interwoven with the expectations of navigating a fertility journey as a woman in medicine. There is data and experience driven descriptions of the medical processes involved in fertility treatment as well as practical tips for approaching this as a busy physician. It is complete with To Do lists.

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Dr. Jenna Miller, the author, shares her personal story of navigating infertility as a woman in medicine over seven years. She mixes in realistic expectations, tips, and data for a variety of approaches to building a family in nontraditional ways.

After some introductory chapters on the history of women in medicine and common vocabulary, she touches on some approaches including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), gestational carriers, and adoption. Going through fertility treatment while working a high-intensity job in medicine brings unique additional challenges to the family-building journey.

She shares her own advice for working night shifts and inflexible hours, going through a variety of fertility treatments multiple times, and adjusting to the long road of infertility. Navigating Your Fertility as a Woman in Medicine is even complete with several To-Do lists for each stage of this long journey.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781667896212

Publisher: BookBaby

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: BookBaby

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 167g

Pages: 98

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Health & Wellness Jenna Miller, MD Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Jenna Miller, MD is a Pediatric Critical Care Physician with 15 years of experience in medicine. She began her infertility journey at the age of 35 and found that infertility felt like a dark secret that few women discussed openly. Over several years, she experienced "egg freezing" four times, IVF (in vitro fertilization) four times, IUI (intrauterine insemination) three times, and the use of sperm donors and gestational carriers. She also explored adoption. She experienced this journey as a single woman in medicine, so she believes she has a unique perspective on a variety of ways a person can build a family in nontraditional ways. In the end, her journey ended in her gestational carrier achieving a pregnancy with her son. She hopes her journey can help educate the generations of women who follow her in medicine and that these women can have the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions regarding their own fertility.