How to Make Love to a Plastic Cup: A Guy's Guide to the World of Infertility

by Greg Wolfe, Michael Vermesh (Foreword by)

Overview

“A Guy’s Guide to the World of Infertility,” How to Make Love to a Plastic Cup is a light-hearted, laugh-out-loud funny, yet at the same time helpful and informative handbook to all things infertility-related written with the male wannabe babymaker in mind. Greg Wolf, who has “been there,” delivers the goods in a humorous, direct way that every potential dad will love…and every hopeful mom will want to purchase for the often clueless man in her life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062006844
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/10/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

After college, Greg Wolfe spent time with the Groundlings and Acme Theatre improv groups in Los Angeles. He lives in Hollywood with his wife, Julie, a screenwriter. After several years of treatments and four cycles of IVF, they are the proud parents of a healthy baby boy.

After college, Greg Wolfe spent time with the Groundlings and Acme Theatre improv groups in Los Angeles. He lives in Hollywood with his wife, Julie, a screenwriter. After several years of treatments and four cycles of IVF, they are the proud parents of a healthy baby boy.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Author's Note ix

Introduction xi

1 Begin by Putting Tab "A" into Slot "B" 1

2 Basic Biology for Complete and Utter Dummies (No Offense) 7

3 You Need to know about this...Period 21

4 Let's All Play the Blame Game! 39

5 Great. Now What the Hell are we Supposed to do? 55

6 IVF: It's very Frustrating! 71

7 Sperm-A-Lot 109

8 Real Men Don't Cry (However, they do Sometimes Quietly Sob into Their Pillows) 123

9 What a Prick! 135

10 Okay, Seriously, This $#!% Ain't Working! 161

11 Re: Your Choice of Fertility Doctor 173

12 So Will you be using Cash, Credit, or your Home Equity Line? 187

13 Finally!! 199

Afterword: Aka "Post-Partum Impressions" 211

Acknowledgments 215

Glossary 217

Endnotes 231

Index 233

What People are Saying About This

Toni Weschler

“Who knew? A book about the challenges of infertility that is so funny that at times it’s an actual page-turner!... A work that will undoubtedly make the journey to parenthood that much easier, if not downright funnier, for scores of couples lucky enough to have discovered [it].”

Editorial Reviews

Although infertility is no laughing matter for most couples, screenwriter Wolfe, writing from personal experience, turns it into a one-night standup act in which words such as "follicular" and "luteal" become punch lines to wink-and-nudge stories. With chapter titles such as "It's not over till it's ova," "sperm-a-lot," and ""what a prick!" Wolfe tries to lead men through the maze of medical terminology and procedures designed to overcome infertility. For example, he provides step-by-step instructions on how to inject your wife with fertility drugs, and he offers advice ("prepare to chafe, badly"; "you don't have to fill the whole cup"; how to deposit one's sperm in an IVF clinic). Wolfe's need to make a joke out of every little step along the way grows quickly tiresome and precious and regrettably ends up making too much light of a serious issue. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Who knew? A book about the challenges of infertility that is so funny that at times it’s an actual page-turner!... A work that will undoubtedly make the journey to parenthood that much easier, if not downright funnier, for scores of couples lucky enough to have discovered [it].” — Toni Weschler, bestselling author of Taking Charge of Your Fertility

From the Publisher

Who knew? A book about the challenges of infertility that is so funny that at times it’s an actual page-turner!... A work that will undoubtedly make the journey to parenthood that much easier, if not downright funnier, for scores of couples lucky enough to have discovered [it].

Toni Weschler