
The Trying Game
Get Through Fertility Treatment and Get Pregnant Without Losing Your Mind
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Amy Klein
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Amy Klein
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From the author of Fertility Diary for the New York Times Motherlode blog comes a reassuring, no-nonsense guide to both the emotional and practical process of trying to get pregnant, written with the smarts, warmth, and honesty of a woman who has been in the trenches.
"A compassionate, often funny, well-researched, and ultimately empowering guide." (Lori Gottlieb, New York Times best-selling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone)
There are so many ways to be Not Pregnant: You can be young, old, partnered, or unpartnered. Maybe you have endometriosis. Maybe you don’t have enough eggs or your partner doesn’t have enough sperm. Or maybe there’s nothing wrong except you’re Just. Not. Pregnant.
Amy Klein has been there. Faced with fertility obstacles, she quickly became an expert. After nine rounds of IVF, four miscarriages, three acupuncturists, two rabbis, and one reproductive immunologist, she finally became a mother. And she wrote about it all for the New York Times Motherlode blog in her Fertility Diary column.
Now, Amy has written the book she wishes she’d had when she was trying to get pregnant. With advice from medical experts as well as real women, she outlines your options every step of the way, from questions you should ask to advice on getting your mother-in-law to mind her own beeswax. In this comprehensive road map to infertility, you’ll find topics such as:
- Whether to freeze your eggs
- Finding (and affording) a clinic
- What to expect during your first IVF cycle
- Baby envy - aka it’s okay to skip your friend’s shower
- Whether the alternative route - acupuncture, herbs, supplements - is for you
- Helpful tips and more!
Empowering, compassionate, and down-to-earth, The Trying Game will show you what to expect when you’re not expecting with heart and humanity when you need it the most.
©2020 Amy Klein (P)2020 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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"Infertility can be incredibly difficult to navigate emotionally and physically. As an IVF veteran, Amy Klein does an exceptional job of tapping into the emotional aspects of the infertility journey while also providing readers with helpful information about various fertility treatments from medical experts." (William Schoolcraft, MD, founder and medical director of CCRM Fertility)
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Constantly striving to achieve one goal after another and investing more in our careers than in our actual lives have left many of us feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and disconnected from who we are. Take Sheri Riley. She rose to the top of her field and was miserable. Sure, she was successful, but she couldn't buy peace, and material possessions didn't bring her clarity. Now an empowerment speaker and life strategist, Sheri Riley shares the secret that helped her regain her sense of self and purpose.
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I did not like this book. At all!
- By Lillie on 02-08-18
By: Sheri Riley, and others
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An Odyssey
- A Father, a Son, and an Epic
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth - and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist.
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Inspiring
- By Jean on 06-21-19
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I Am That Girl
- How to Speak Your Truth, Discover Your Purpose, and #bethatgirl
- By: Alexis Jones, Sophia Bush - foreword
- Narrated by: Alexis Jones, Keylor Leigh, Soneela Nankani, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In a crazy, media distracted world the important questions often get lost like: What's your passion? What's your purpose? Who do you want to be? Alexis Jones has built a career listening to and helping girls around the world figure out those questions in order to inspire them to think for themselves, to speak their truth, to discover their purpose, and to dream HUGE! Alexis believes that you're not broken nor do you need to be fixed. You already are that girl who creates magic wherever she goes, who lives fearlessly, who inspires those around her to dream bigger.
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Every women should read
- By Amazon Customer on 10-06-23
By: Alexis Jones, and others
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Body Neutral
- A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues
- By: Jessi Kneeland
- Narrated by: Jessi Kneeland
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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Have you ever thought that if only you could change something about the way you looked, your life would be better? But the truth is that even if you were to magically attain the “perfect” body right now, your problems wouldn’t be solved. Because body image issues are never just about the body. Body image issues are always about something deeper, and they always serve some kind of purpose.
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Kneeland gave words to my experience
- By Baker on 07-03-23
By: Jessi Kneeland
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
- Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
- By: W. Thomas Boyce MD
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health - an audiobook that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success.
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Needed an Editor
- By Daniel S Miller on 03-19-19
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If We Break
- A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
- By: Kathleen Buhle
- Narrated by: Kathleen Buhle
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naïve young woman from a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago, she met the dashing son of a senator in Oregon. Within months, Kathleen found herself pregnant and engaged. Determined to build her family on a foundation of love, Kathleen was convinced her and Hunter’s commitment to each other could overcome any obstacle. But when Hunter’s drinking evolved into dependency, she was forced to learn how irrevocably a marriage can fall apart under the merciless power of addiction.
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A true survivors story
- By Kristin on 06-25-22
By: Kathleen Buhle
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Renegade Beauty
- Reveal and Revive Your Natural Radiance - Beauty Secrets, Solutions, and Preparation
- By: Nadine Artemis, Carrie-Anne Moss - foreword
- Narrated by: Kate Marcin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In this essential guide, Nadine Artemis introduces listeners to the concept of "renegade" beauty - a practice of doing less and allowing the elements and the life force of nature to revive the body, skin, and soul so our natural radiance can shine through. Anyone stuck in perpetual loops of new products, facials, and dermatologist appointments will find answers as Artemis illuminates the energizing elements of sun, fresh air, water, the Earth, and plants.
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Author's Awful Alliteration
- By Nikki B. Williams on 03-01-23
By: Nadine Artemis, and others
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The Chair and the Valley
- A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors
- By: Banning Lyon, Jonathan Eig - foreword
- Narrated by: Banning Lyon, Jonathan Eig, Maria Shriver
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Chair and The Valley is a raw, gut-wrenching, and amazing story about healing from trauma and starting over. It is a testament to the importance of chosen family, the restorative power of nature, and the strength it takes to build a new life in the face of fear and doubt. Banning takes listeners through his fraught relationship with his family, the mistreatment he suffered at the hospital, the lawsuit against the owners of the facility, and his desire to make sense of what happened to him. We witness Banning navigate the difficult landscape of trauma and his battle to live a normal life.
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Moving memoir of forgiveness and healing
- By kathy adams on 04-19-25
By: Banning Lyon, and others
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Think Like a Breadwinner
- A Wealth-Building Manifesto for Women Who Want to Earn More (and Worry Less)
- By: Jennifer Barrett
- Narrated by: Jennifer Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly half of working women in the United States are now their household's main breadwinner. And yet, the majority of women still aren't being brought up to think like breadwinners. In fact, they're actually discouraged - by institutional bias and subconscious beliefs - from building their own wealth, pursuing their full earning potential, and providing for themselves and others financially. In Think Like a Breadwinner, financial expert Jennifer Barrett reframes what it really means to be a breadwinner.
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Great advice
- By Dreda Phoenix on 04-16-21
By: Jennifer Barrett
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Why Will No One Play with Me?
- The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive
- By: Caroline Maguire, Teresa Barker
- Narrated by: Caroline Maguire
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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From renowned parent expert Caroline Maguire, Why Will No One Play with Me? is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood. Every parent wants their child to be okay - to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. But many children lack important social and executive functioning skills that allow them to navigate through the world with ease.
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Don't buy this audiobook
- By Kindle Customer on 10-15-21
By: Caroline Maguire, and others
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Shame on You
- How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification
- By: Melissa Petro
- Narrated by: Melissa Petro
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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For millions of women, shame is a vicious predator. It tells us we are less than, that we are unworthy. We try everything to escape shame—ignoring it, intellectualizing it, and even, ironically, shaming ourselves for feeling it. The reality is that women experience shame more frequently and more intensely than men—a direct result, as acclaimed journalist Melissa Petro explains, of a patriarchal culture that “urges women to feel bad about themselves, and then punishes them when they do.” Why can’t we figure out how to break the shame cycle once and for all?
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We lived in a F$$$ up world that penalized women for just existing!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-30-24
By: Melissa Petro
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The Angel and the Assassin
- The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
- By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- Narrated by: Melinda Wade
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Until recently, microglia were thought to be merely the brain’s housekeepers, helpfully removing damaged cells. But a recent groundbreaking discovery revealed them to be capable of terrifying Jekyll and Hyde behavior. When triggered - and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia - they can morph into destroyers, impacting a wide range of issues from memory problems and anxiety to depression and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers.
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A Magnus Opus for Microglia
- By Dominic Acri on 01-23-20
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- By: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.
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Important story of fraud really well told
- By ReallyNelie on 12-27-19
By: Susannah Cahalan
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Tips and tricks for the hardest years of your life.
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totally relatable
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Very informative
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