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Chapter 1
Do you have an infertility problem ? When to Start Worrying!
Chapter 2
How Babies are Made - The Basics
Chapter 3
Finding Out What’s Wrong -- The Basic Medical Tests
Chapter 4
Testing the Man - Semen Analysis.
Chapter 5
Beyond the Semen Analysis
Chapter 6
Diagnosis and Treatment for Male Infertility -- More Confusion !
Chapter 7
The Case of the Man with a Low Sperm Count.
Chapter 8
Microinjection: The Latest Advance in Treating the Infertile Man.
Chapter 9
Ultrasound - Seeing with Sound.
Chapter 10
Laparoscopy -- The Kinder Cut
Chapter 11
Hysteroscopy
Chapter 12
The Tubal Connection
Chapter 13
Ovulation -- Normal and Abnormal
Chapter 14
The Older Woman
Chapter 15
Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD)
Chapter 16
The Cervical Factor
Chapter 17
Hirsutism -- Excess Facial and Body Hair
Chapter 18
Endometriosis -- The Silent Invader
Chapter 19
Ectopic Pregnancy – The Time Bomb in the Tube
Chapter 20
Unexplained Infertility
Chapter 21
Secondary Infertility -- Caught Between Fertile And Infertile Worlds
Chapter 22
Empty Arms -- The Lonely Trauma of Miscarriage
Chapter 23
Understanding Your Medicines
 Chapter 24
Intrauterine Insemination
Chapter 25
Test Tube Babies - IVF & GIFT
Chapter 26
PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS - the newest ART Chapter 27
Using Donor Sperm
Chapter 28
Surrogate Mothering
Chapter 29
When Enough is Enough - The Decision to End Treatment
Chapter 30
Adoption - Yours by Choice
Chapter 31
Childfree living - Life without children
Chapter 32
Stress And Infertility
Chapter 33
The Emotional Crisis of Infertility
Chapter 34
How to Cope with Infertility
Chapter 35
Infertility and Sexuality
Chapter 36
Support Groups-Self-Help is the Best Help
Chapter 37
Myths and Misconceptions
Chapter 38
Helping Hands - How Friends and Relatives can Help
Chapter 39
RIGHTS OF THE INFERTILE COUPLE - AND WHAT SOCIETY NEEDS TO DO ABOUT THEM
Chapter 40
Alternative Medicine: Exploring Your Treatment Options
Chapter 41
Making Decisions about Treatment
Chapter 42
How to Find the Best Doctor
Chapter 43
How to Make the Most of Your Doctor
Chapter 44
Let the reader beware - making sense of medical stories in the news
Chapter 45
THE INFERTILE PATIENT'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET
Chapter 46
The Ethical Issues - Right or Wrong ?
Chapter 47
How Much Does Treatment Cost?
Chapter 48
Pregnant - At Last !
Chapter 49
Preventing Infertility
Chapter 50
The Infertile Patient's Prayer and Infertility "Defined"
Chapter 51
Making IVF affordable
Chapter 52
Why are women scared of IVF ?
Chapter 53
INFERTILITY RECORD SHEET

Chapter 54
Self-Insemination

INFERTILITY RECORD SHEET

This form can be useful to summarise and record your infertility history;

and is very useful when you need to seek a second opinion.

Date__________________

Name _____________________________________

Partner Name_______________________________

SOCIAL HISTORY

How long have you been married?_____________

How long have you been trying to get pregnant? ________________

How long have you been trying to get pregnant with a doctor's help?_______________

Was it a General Gynecologist or an Infertility Specialist? _________

About how many times a month do you have intercourse? _____

Does either partner smoke? _____________ How much? ___________

Does either partner use recreational drugs? ________ Which ones? _____________________

FEMALE HISTORY

Age____ Birthdate ________ Height_________ Weight__________

Menstrual periods occur every ________ days. Are they regular? __________

For how many days do you bleed? _________ Do you have endometriosis? __________

Have you ever had pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)? ________________________________

What pelvic surgeries have you had? _______________________________________________

What were the findings? _________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Number of pregnancies with this partner _______

Number of pregnancies with a previous partner _______

Number of miscarriages _______

Number of abortions __________

Number of tubal pregnancies ________

Number of live births _________

Medical problems and current medications of female partner: _______________________________

________________________________________________________________________

MALE HISTORY

Age____ Birthdate

Number of pregnancies with a previous partner _______

Do you have problems with erection or ejaculation? _______________________________

Sperm count: ____________ million per ml.

Motility ___________ %

Male medical problems and current medications __________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

MEDICAL HISTORY

Have you had:

 

Test            Yes/No             Date            Result

 

Hysterosalpingogram

Laparoscopy

Hysteroscopy

 

Other

Treatment            Yes/No  How many   Date             Any success?

Ultrasound monitoring

Clomiphene stimulation with

intercourse

Clomiphene stimulation with

insemination

Injectable HMG stimulation

with intercourse

Inseminations without any

stimulation

Injectable HMG stimulation

with insemination

In vitro fertilization ( IVF)

ICSI

Give details of IVF / ICSI results, if applicable.

Stimulation Follicles Embryos Embryos Embryos

protocol used grown formed transferred frozen

 

 

 

OTHER

Are there other pertinent test results, procedures or problems that have been identified?

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