The Journey to Fertility: A Couple's Guide to In Vitro Fertilization

It's a girl. And a boy! Jack and Sarah Marsh are having their babies. But only after years of anguish, frustration, and disappointment. Until very recently, Sarah and Jack were infertile.

So ends the long-but fruitful-tale of our fictional couple. The Journey to Fertility describes in clear, compassionate detail the process experienced by some of the one in five couples whose infertility leads them to in vitro fertilization (IVF). The tour takes you from initial evaluation through the necessary pre-IVF treatments to the ultimate in advanced reproductive techniques-IVF and its relatives.

But The Journey to Fertility offers more than facts. Here couples will find support, counsel, and encouragement that will help smooth the bumps they encounter along their own personal road to parenthood.

The Journey to Fertility should be read by all couples considering IVF-to pave the way for a smooth trip-and by those who know such a couple-to enhance their understanding of what women and men longing to have children must endure.

William M. Boggs, M.D. and Rosella D. Smith, M.D. He's an internist now writing full-time. She's a reproductive endocrinologist credited with more than 1000 live births. Together, they have two natural-born children, an adopted daughter, and twin boys conceived through in vitro fertilization. What better couple to act as your tour guides along The Journey to Fertility?