The "Jason Bourne of fertility" (The New York Times Book Review)
presents a personal and deeply informative account of one woman's
journey through the global fertility industry. On paper, conception
may seem like a simple biological process, yet this is often hardly
the case. While many would like to have children, the road toward
conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy can be unexpectedly rocky
and winding. Lawyer Elizabeth Katkin never imagined her quest for
children would ultimately involve seven miscarriages, eight fresh
IVF cycles, two frozen IVF attempts, five natural pregnancies, four
IVF pregnancies, ten doctors, six countries, two potential
surrogates, nine years, and roughly $200,000. Despite her three Ivy
League degrees and wealth of resources, Katkin found she was
woefully undereducated when it came to understanding and
confronting her own difficulties having children. After being told
by four doctors she should give up, but without an explanation as
to what exactly was going wrong with her body, Katkin decided to
look for answers herself. The global investigation that followed
revealed that approaches to the fertility process taken in many
foreign countries are vastly different than those in the US and UK.
In Conceivability, Elizabeth Katkin, now a mother of two, exposes
eye-opening information about the medical, financial, legal,
scientific, emotional, and ethical issues at stake. "A
well-researched, informative, and positive account of a very long
journey to motherhood" (Kirkus Reviews), Conceivability sheds light
on the often murky and baffling world of conception science. Her
book is an invaluable and inspiring text that will be a boon to
others navigating the deep and "choppy waters" of fertility
treatment (Publishers Weekly), and her chronicle of one of the most
difficult, painful, rewarding, and loving journeys a woman can take
is as informative as it is poignant.
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