The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Understanding Your Fertility Cycles to Take Control of Your Reproductive Health

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The Garden of Fertility is a guide to using fertility awareness-that is, reading fertility signals in order to prevent or achieve pregnancy. Certified fertility educator Katie Singer explains how to observe and chart fertility cycles to determine when a woman is most fertile to increase chances of conception, or to exercise birth control naturally-a method that, when followed precisely, is as effective as the Pill. Unlike other books on fertility awareness, The Garden of Fertility also describes how to use the charts to gauge gynecological health and offers nonmedical options for strengthening reproductive wellness. This book provides all the information women never learned in sex ...

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Overview

The Garden of Fertility is a guide to using fertility awareness-that is, reading fertility signals in order to prevent or achieve pregnancy. Certified fertility educator Katie Singer explains how to observe and chart fertility cycles to determine when a woman is most fertile to increase chances of conception, or to exercise birth control naturally-a method that, when followed precisely, is as effective as the Pill. Unlike other books on fertility awareness, The Garden of Fertility also describes how to use the charts to gauge gynecological health and offers nonmedical options for strengthening reproductive wellness. This book provides all the information women never learned in sex education class, but should have.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781583331828
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/22/2004
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 459,634
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Meet the Author

In 1989, Katie Singer left her job as Writer in Residence at South Boston High School and headed west to write the story of a Jewish family, inspired by stories she has been collecting all her life. The result of her nine-year odyssey is The Wholeness of a Broken Heart, her first novel. Katie's work has been published in Lilith, Heresies, Sojourner, and the Jewish Women's 1997 Annual, among other publications. She lives in New Mexico.

Visit Katie Singer on the Web at www.KatieSinger.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xv
Introduction xvii
A Note About Reading The Garden of Fertility xxvii
Part 1 Fertility Awareness
1. A Woman Is Like the Earth: Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology 3
2. How to Observe and Chart Your Fertility Signals 16
3. The Rules for Using Fertility Awareness to Prevent Pregnancy 35
4. Fertility Awareness While Breast-feeding 63
5. Enhancing Your Chances of Conceiving 84
Part 2 Fertility Awareness and Gynecological Health
6. Gauging Gynecological Health by Fertility Signals 99
7. Common Products That Can Be Hazardous to Reproductive Health 121
8. The Six Steps of Healing 135
9. Healing Childbearing Losses 143
10. Night-Lighting and Reproductive Health 158
11. Food and Reproductive Health 164
12. Natural Remedies for Reproductive Health Problems 185
13. Women Conducting Research 198
Appendixes
The Many Names of Fertility Awareness 225
How to Find a Teacher 231
If You Want to Teach 232
Principles of the Fertility Awareness Institute 234
Studies About the Effectiveness of Fertility Awareness 236
Testing Your Understanding of Fertility Awareness 238
Resources 252
Glossary 265
Blank Charts 272
Endnotes 275
Index 285

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