This book is really great considering it offers natural ways of conceiving...THERE is a new study out of Israel - that HYPNOSIS doubles IVF success rate!! www.ourjerusalem.com. I also read and followed Michelle LeClaire's book/method of HYPNOFERTILITY and it worked. www.leclairemethod.com

I am living proof that Chinese medicine can be incredibly useful to couples facing infertility. My husband and I found we were expecting earlier this week after over 8 years of no birth control. The first few years it was ok but as time went on and 'nothing happened' we became pretty stressed out. Doctors checked us both and could find nothing. I ordered this book after hearing success stories of other people using acupuncture for other ailments. I was also experiencing some mild health problems. I recieved the book and started acupuncture (and taking herbs) around the same time. The book was well written and explained so much about our cycles and about what can be causing various conditions. I could see improvement of my health within days and within 3-4 months we have a new little one on the way! For so long I thought it would never happen!
I don't want to get anyone's hopes up. It may not work for everyone but it worked for us and I can't say enough about our wonderful acupuncturist!!! It would be worth the read and worth a try. What do you have to lose? It offers hope and a really nice explanation of how Chinese medicine works in general.

I simply loved this book. All the information finally fit together. I'd been doing acupucture for fertility for nearly a year when I read this, and I finally understood WHY. So many women are getting swept up in the "trendiness" of doing acupuncture to help them get pregnant, and we are starting to lose touch with the WHY. You can't just lie there passively on the table with pins pricking into you and expect it to work. In order for your body to really accept the treatment, you should know what it's doing for you! Why might you be producing low progesterone, why might you not be ovulating, how does diet change your body's receptivity to a pregnancy, and how can you treat these deficiencies. These are all questions that were building inside me, and I had no one person to give me the answers--til this book. It helped me understand my body better, what things were off balance, and what I could do about it. Most importantly, it helped make me a more savy consumer with both my acupuncturist and my reproductive endocrinologist. I began asking better questions and feeling more in control during a scary and discouraging time.

The one challenge I could see with this book is not having an acupuncturist to talk things over with. If you are on your own and trying to self-diagnose your infertility cause through this book, you are going to do a lot of second guessing and wondering. But if you have an acupuncturist who you can talk to openly (I even gave a copy of this book to mine. . . he loved it!), confirm your theories with, and make a plan together, you will feel like you are treating your body from the inside out and getting closer to a pregnancy.

The cover of this book seemed promising but the contents let us down. We have a three year old so I thought all I needed was something to increase my blood flow and acupuncture was the best thing I could think of. But don't make the mistake we did and put all your eggs in one basket.

It turned out that I had a blocked fallopian tube and no amount of acupuncture or Chinese herbs can remedy this. After having it surgically removed, we did IVF and got pregnant on the first try.

But what really helped get us through it was reading an IVF book. My best friend has read several but said "What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant" is by far the best. She was right. It was easy to read, empathetic, and helped us every step of the way.

Lucky for us we found out early that we needed a specialist. A woman in my support group wasn't so lucky. She has tried natural remedies for the past six years only to learn she's now going though early menopause.

Our advice is to get a check up first then decide what book to buy second.

After reading all these reviews, I bought the book thinking I was buying THE infertility book must-have. It's OK. Not great, not bad, but not what the hype here led me to believe. I'll keep it in the library, but I'll be more careful about buying based on reviews here.