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With one in six couples globally struggling with infertility, we’re all aware that the path to parenthood can often be far from straightforward, yet the silence surrounding these issues can often make it feel like a road travelled alone. It’s often only when we are collectively brave enough to share our experiences that it becomes clear how common issues with conception can be. So, what does happen after the failed pregnancy tests, the first miscarriage, the unsuccessful round of IVF, the ectopic pregnant or stillbirth?

Renowned midwife, doula trainer, and Master of Public Health Shafia Monroe reintroduces and celebrates the lost art of African American postpartum healing traditions in this practical, essential guide to maternal health. Reconnecting Black women to their postpartum traditions can help reduce common discomforts of birth and empower families to be proactive about their medical care. Mothering the Mother is a resource for Black women and communities to reclaim their cultural traditions for a healthy postpartum recuperation.

The Lucky Egg is the fertility guide we’ve all been waiting for—comprehensive, compassionate, and refreshingly clear. Imagine if your best friend also happened to be a top reproductive endocrinologist—the kind who could break down the complexities of conception with warmth, humor, and real-world insight. In The Lucky Egg, Dr. Lucky Sekhon is that brilliant friend, ready to guide you through every stage of the fertility journey, whether it’s straightforward or deeply complex.

As Intimacy Coordinator, Ita O’Brien has choreographed some of the most passionate and vulnerable intimate scenes onscreen. From Normal People to Sex Education to I May Destroy You, and in so many more productions, she has also made these scenes safer, more joyful and more empowering to perform in. No one knows intimacy, the power of true connection, better than her. So, what can her work teach us about our own relationships, both with ourselves and others? How can we use her tools to discover what it is that we truly want in our intimate lives?

The medical field has long ignored women’s unique health needs, assuming our bodies are the same as men’s. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Based on the latest solely women-centered research and insights from the world’s top female health experts, The New Rules of Women's Health is the accurate, comprehensive, and empowering resource you need to take charge of your wellbeing.

Comprehensive, compassionate, and refreshingly clear, The Lucky Egg is the fertility guide we've all been waiting for!

One in ten women experience Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, an endocrine disorder that's the leading cause of infertility, weight gain, and irregular periods. Yet it's still a poorly understood and underserved condition. As a registered dietitian who also has PCOS, Cory Ruth is here to tell you that PCOS is a condition that you can thrive with.

Whether you're just starting to think about getting pregnant or have been on your fertility journey for a while, this science-backed guide gives you the evidence-based tools to take control of your path to conception. No more generic advice or unexplained rules. Just smart, personalized strategies validated through clinical success. Start optimizing your fertility today.

In this transformative book from hormone health coach, trauma and PTSD recovery counselor, and breathwork coach Isabella Mainwaring, you’ll dive deep into the heart of women’s health. Isabella’s goal is not only for you to improve how you feel day-to-day, but also to help you reclaim your unique version of feminine success and power. By healing your hormones and reproductive health, you’re not only nurturing your body but stepping into your full potential.

Journalist Irin Carmon was eight months pregnant when the Supreme Court allowed states to ban abortion, unleashing pain and suffering for those who didn’t want to be pregnant and, shockingly to some, those who did. What was clear to Carmon from her dozen years of reporting—and from what she felt in her bones—was how incomplete the American story of reproduction had been, and how much had been unexpressed, hidden, or taken for granted, and not just by conservative justices or in red states. Whether in cosmopolitan, liberal New York City or rural Alabama, the entire system is broken.

Wer gibt schon gerne zu, dass man keine Lust auf Sex hat? Warum schämen wir uns, wenn wir bestimmte Erfahrungen noch nicht gemacht haben? Und wieso sagen wir "Später vielleicht" oder "Ich bin zu müde", obwohl das gar nicht stimmt? In Kein Bock Club erzählt Maria Popov offenherzig und ehrlich von eigenen Erfahrungen mit gescheiterten Flirtversuchen und gesellschaftlichem Druck rund um Sexualität. Sie spricht über das Label Asexualität, das sie für sich benutzt, und warum es okay ist, keinen Bock auf Sex zu haben. Dieses Hörbuch ist für dich, wenn du dich fragst:.

Discover the empowering truth about your body from Dr. Sarah E. Hill, the leading researcher on women’s hormones. Part science and part feminist guide, this essential book demystifies the hormonal cycle, PMS, and PMDD, and advocates for a new understanding of women’s health.

The abortion pills are a safe, cheap, clinic-less means of ending a pregnancy, and these drugs have been quietly—yet steadily—spreading around the world. These pills are already changing the fight for abortion access as we understand it. Rebecca Kelliher dives into the history of the pills’ invention in the 1970’s and 80’s, unpacks government battles around their approval in the 1990’s, and deftly weaves together several perspectives to move beyond the pills’ origin story.

Currently, 6.7 million people—or about 1 in 8 couples—in the United States are estimated to experience infertility. With their expertise and candid approach, the brains behind the Fertility Docs Uncensored podcast demystify the IVF process and the rising trend of egg freezing, addressing common myths and misconceptions along the way.

The Herbal Fertility Handbook provides clear, evidence-based strategies to support egg quality, sperm quality, and overall fertility, to help you improve your chances of getting pregnant. Writing in a gender-inclusive style and inspired by her own struggle with fertility issues, author Liane Moccia offers strategies based on proper nutrition, fertility-boosting herbs and supplements, analyzing environmental exposures, and improving lifestyle factors such as sleep, stress, and movement.

Rarely spoken about and another period in their lives when women are stripped of their agency, Davina will empower women to know all their options before they even become pregnant, allowing them to make the right decisions that suit their individual needs in all stages of the process. Written alongside medical experts and specialist contributors, and filled with real life stories and experiences from before birth to the first few months with your baby, this is the ultimate guide and offers all you need to know.

Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she’d read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her experience; for one thing, most stories ended with in vitro fertilization, a baby, or both. She wanted to offer something different. Caldwell began a book. She imagined a selective journal about her experience coping with stasis and uncertainty. Is it time to quit coffee, find a new acupuncturist, get another blood test?

In Hormone Balance For Dummies, renowned hormone health coach Isabella Mainwaring delivers an accessible and exciting new take on hormonal imbalance. You'll discover why hormone balance is so important for you and contributes to everything from the maintenance of a healthy weight to fertility, mental wellness, and overall health. The author goes beyond diet and lifestyle to offer practical nervous system regulation tips and dive deep on available treatment options for hormonal imbalance.

In this down-to-earth guide, celebrated sex expert and bestselling author Dr. Ruth Westheimer teams up with prominent gynecologist at Cornell and New York Presbyterian Medical Centers, Dr. Amos Grunebaum, to address the most pressing health issues women face today. Written in Dr. Ruth's refreshingly candid and lively style, it gives you everything you need to take charge of your health—from finding a gynecologist to having a happy sex life to planning or avoiding a pregnancy.

Collected here by doula and hypnobirthing coach Claire Fulton are thirty true stories from a diverse group of ordinary people, representing a wide array of experiences. There are hospital births and home births; inductions, caesareans and vaginal deliveries. Things rarely go quite to plan, and there are moments of surprise, frustration and unexpected comedy along the way, but all of the stories deliver comfort, reassurance and a happy ending.