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The hilarious and touching true story of one woman's trials and tribulations with IVF
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When I was a teenager, I thought you could get pregnant from sitting in a jacuzzi. Not that I'm sure I even knew what a jacuzzi was, but I knew they were racy places where racy things happened. Men, as far as I remember, didn't even have to be there. So long as they'd been in the water in some sort of excitable state, pregnancy was inevitable - even if you kept your pants on. You see pregnancy was that easy, that dangerous and it could ruin your life.
Almost 20 years later and pregnancy could still ruin my life. Although now it is not the threat of what having a baby would do, but of not having a baby at all. I have been trying to get pregnant for two years and have not even come close to hearing the pitter-patter of tiny feet...'
So begins The Stork Club, Imogen Edwards-Jones' very personal, very moving and very funny memoir of her (and her husband's) trials and tribulations with IVF. Poked and prodded by endless doctors, pumped full of an exotic cocktail of drugs and forced to try to have sex at the most inopportune moments, Imogen pulls no punches in her account of this process. In her words, 'The fertility game is like a marathon, where you just have to keep on running. No matter how many times the finishing line is moved, no matter how increasingly heavy the going or unpleasant the terrain, you pick yourself up and, ever more determinedly, keep on going. Until one day, you pray, you might just make it...
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book was brilliant, very honest, very open and very funny. If you want to take a break from your own infertility problems and feel like you need to be able to laugh through the side effects of Clomid and infertility treatments then buy this book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A friend bought this for my wife. She has been through the IVF process 3 times and has still not managed to go to term - we both read it and both found this book very helpful. It was very moving. It made us cry and laugh. And I found the author's journey extremely interesting and enlightening. I would recommend it to anyone who is doing or about to undergo treatment.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i got through this book in under three hours and thats great for me. It had me roaring with laughter at the beginning and then settling into a more mellow supportive state later on. As many people have i'm sure read this book as a guide to being pregnant i cannot say how useful or unhelpful it actually is because i am not pregnant,but even so it did strike a cord with me, Imogen E-Jones is a talented writer and really makes you empathize with her characters.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
mediocre
Bit of a let-down to be honest. Flimsy, thin book so bound in hardback to make it appear thicker. For anyone wanting this book to help with IVF experience I wouldn't bother. Read more
Published on 15 April 2009 by S. Walsh
Not as realistic as i had hoped
I read the stork club in a day, and yes I did feel quite emotional at times, but did also find that it was a bit unrealistic for some people, the couple seemed to have a lot of... Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2006 by Mrs H
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