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Publisher: Broadway
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Release date: 2001-10-09
Media: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
Ean: 9780767908207
Book Isbn: 0767908201

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Julia Indichova

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A memoir of hope for the thousands of women struggling with infertility, from one who beat the odds by simply tuning in to her body and tapping her well of sheer determination.

At a time when more and more women are trying to get pregnant at increasingly advanced ages, fertility specialists and homeopathic researchers boast endless treatment options. But when Julia Indichova made the rounds of medical doctors and nontraditional healers, she was still unable to conceive a child. It was only when she forsook their financially and emotionally draining advice, turning inward instead, that she finally met with reproductive success. Inconceivable recounts this journey from hopeless diagnoses to elated motherhood.

Anyone who has faced infertility will relate to Julia’s desperate measures: acupuncture, unidentifiable black-and-white pellets, herb soup, foul-smelling fruit, even making love on red sheets. Five reproductive endocrinologists told her that there was no documented case of anyone in her hormonal condition getting pregnant, forcing her to finally embark on her own intuitive regimen. After eight caffeine-free, nutrient-rich, yoga-laden months, complemented by visualization exercises, Julia received amazing news; incredibly, she was pregnant. Nine months later she gave birth to a healthy girl.

Unlike the many infertility books that take a clinical “how to” approach, Inconceivable simply professes the wisdom of giving expert status back to the patient. Julia’s self-discovery, and her ability to see her body as an ally once again, yield a beautiful message about the importance of honoring the body’s innate powers, and the power of life itself.

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Written on April 19, 2007
Summary: Amazingly hopeful, beautifully written, a must-read for anyone struggling with infertility
In the midst of my own struggle with infertility, I luckily came across Julia Indichova's beautiful book, Inconceivable. Her story of hope has touched me like no other book I've read on this subject and it was this book which allowed me to discover the author's support circles, workshops and website community which I have found to be an invaluable resource on this difficult journey. I highly recommend this book for anyone, male or female, who is struggling with infertility. I also highly recommend her second book, The Fertile Female which provides hands-on techniques for practicing what Julia calls her "Fertile Heart" tools. Incorporating these tools into my daily life has transformed me mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. While there are many tools regarding diet, exercise and relaxation, the most valuable and unique tools are the mind-body imagery and body talk tools. Deep within each of us who travel on this confusing, often scary journey through infertility, there exists a powerful and magnificent life force that is yearning to be heard. We can tap into this force more easily by listening to our bodies and connecting with our true self. The Fertile Heart tools exist to help us to this, and I am so grateful to have found them. The Fertile Female: How the Power of Longing for a Child Can Save Your Life and Change the World

Written on March 26, 2007
Summary: Worthwhile...but read with a HUGE grain of salt
First of all, don't read this book if you are looking for in-depth info or specifics regarding a story of infertility. The reader is given pretty vague details about the author's "infertility"--only her age, FSH number, and a previous pregnancy, and no details on when the FSH was even taken in her cycle (we presume 3, but it isn't confirmed), and no other numbers from her testing, and the reader is then led to believe that a woman with an FSH of 42 (with her lab assay indicating 20 being limit for normal) can't conceive--at all.

The premise of this book is false. In reality, if you read up a lot on infertility, then you are probably aware that numerous women with higher FSH can and do conceive. Even if a woman has poor egg quality and quantity, that doesn't mean that every once in a while, she can't kick out a decent egg in a given cycle and achieve pregnancy. Not common, but it happens. The difference is that assisted reproduction techniques, especially IVF, depend on a woman being able to produce a decent number of quality follicles after drug stimulation. Women with high FSH and age typically are poor candidates for IVF, because they can't generate many follicles, of a decent size, and even if they do, the eggs sometimes are too fragile to withstand the IVF process and die upon retrieval, or subsequently fail to implant. So, while it makes sense that the author was probably refused admittance to IVF programs, it seems to me that the author misconstrued this as meaning she could never have a child. If the author was literally told that women with high FSH NEVER conceive, then the doctors or their assistants were just morons. Which is also possible.

In any event, I have to agree with "Bookcrazed" that this book is a tad dangerous. Not all women with infertility are going to be able to take yoga, go vegan and organic, and reduce stress, and then suddenly become pregnant after serious diagnoses and problems. And I was also very unimpressed with the anecdotes from people visiting workshops who got pregnant. A lot of them were young compared to most infertility patients or had minor issues to overcome or no diagnosis of infertility or diminished ovarian reserve. If this program really worked, we could anticipate seeing women 40-50, conceive with very high FSH numbers, after years and years of Western infertility treatments failed. And that's not what most of the anecdotes are. So, I think this book has to be careful in terms of not trying to sell snake oil to women who are desperate to conceive. And the author apparently does workshops on her regimine, so there is a financial stake in all this. If you have ever looked at fertility seminars/retreats around the country, you will note that some of them cost thousands of dollars!

I also think that few people could really do this regime. The woman gives up all alcohol, caffeine, dairy, and meat. One of her big things is daily organic "juicing." This women did not have a full time job. So, it's a totally vegan and organic diet that would be incredibly expensive and time consuming. People with full time jobs or budget limitations would have a very tough time with this. And she wasn't stressed out like people who have no kids, because she already had a toddler.

She also had a much younger husband (7-8 years?) which is worth noting because many women with infertility issues may be using donors, or if they are over 40, have husbands even older than themselves, and this can affect outcomes.

Having said this, I think it's a worthwhile read if you read this in the frame of mind that: 1) it is good to question doctors; and 2) getting in touch with your body and radically improving your health overall in terms of stress, counseling, some physical activity, and big nutritional changes could possibly tip the balance for some women, and even assuming it doesn't--and you should not expect it too- you will be in great shape.

I think there are some more realistic books out there on this issue that are also worth reading. One I recently enjoyed is the one "Waiting for Daisy" by Peggy Orenstein. Well written. Funny, relatable, frank. Orenstein eventually conceives despite a lot of odds--one ovary, cancer, miscarriage issues, a husband 10 years old and she's almost 40, but unlike this author, Orenstein ultimately conceives when she isn't really trying, and Orenstein is frank about how acupuncture and alternative medicine did NOT work for her, and is equally critical of how Western doctors are frequently trying to sell the product more than oversee the care. I also like, Liz Tilberis' "No time to die" about her unsuccessful fertility treatments, as well as Ann Taylor Fleming's "Motherhood Deferred"--she was also ultimately unsuccessful. Makes you realize that if you aren't successful, you aren't alone.

Written on January 11, 2007
Summary: moral of the story--never give up
This author really inspires with her tale of how she persisted through negative medical predictions to conceive her second daughter. Her story highlights the fact that averages and statistics are just that, and that we can participate in our own reproductive destinies.

Written on January 6, 2007
Summary: Inspirational
I read this book over and over trying to find out why anyone would have anything negative to say. Many women today are diagnosed with infertility and they put everything in the hands of their doctor. Many women get the scary statistics- 5-10% chance of conceiving and think of a donor egg. It is very easy for people to say this who have a genetic link to their own children. But in one sentence, a doctor can tell someone to give up the chance of having a genetic link to your child. Many women are turned away from from fertility clinics because their numbers are too high and it will ruin the success rates of the clinics. Fertility clinics are graded on their success rates. If a woman is able to utilize a fertility clinic and western medicine, then this is a great way to incorporate a healthy lifestyle and eastern medicine into the regime. There is definitely something to be said between a mind/body relationship. For those women who are unable to get medical care because they are turned away, then they have no choice but to make things happen on their own. If you are suffering from infertility or need a great inspirational story, this is a wonderful book that you will pick up over and over again.

Written on November 21, 2006
Summary: Wonderful book
I was diagnosed with endometriosis about two years ago and had laproscopic surgery
six months later. I tried to get pregnant for about two years, before and after
the surgery, to no avail. I did two IUI's, which didn't work and finally
decided on my 37th birthday to move on to IVF. My husband and I went to see a high-flying
fertility doctor in Manhattan and he gave us a pep talk about IVF, saying that I
was an ideal candidate. He did some routine hormone tests and I resigned myself
to doing the procedure, though my heart wasn't in it. I did a day 3 FSH test
on a Sunday and got a call later that day from a nurse who reported back to me that
my hormones looked fine except for my FSH, which was worryingly high. I didn't
even know what FSH was and she said that all she could tell me is that I may have
"premature ovarian failure". I just about dropped the phone. What? I asked
her to please give me more information because I was very disturbed to hear this
out of the blue. She said she couldn't tell me anything else and my doctor was
not available until midday Monday. I asked her what made her think it was ok to
phone someone on a Sunday and give them half-baked information without being able
to explain exactly what she is reporting. She replied curtly, "What did you
want me to say, that everything was just fine?"

She told me my FSH was 17.8 and that the "cut-off" for IVF was 12 or 14.
I looked this up on the web after talking to her, desperate for information, and
read numerous reports confirming this. What I read turned my blood cold. "You're
as good as your highest FSH, even if the number comes down later." "No live births
above an FSH of 17." "Premature menopause." I went into shock. My husband and I
spent the day crying, feeling like someone just read us a death sentence. Then at
one point I got up off the couch, marched over to the health food store, got myself
a huge green juice and made up in my mind that I was going to fight this. On the
way home I passed Barnes and Nobles and floated up to the childbirth section to
look for any shred of information on high FSH. Julia Indichova's book Inconceivable
caught my attention and I immediately bought it and brought it home. This was the
beginning of an extraordinary process that would change my life and affirm to me
the potential of my own power to change and create circumstances in my life, even
beyond pregnancy.

I raced through Julia's excellent book, which was arresting in its honesty,
candor and straight-forward telling of her incredible story. The book was full of
excellent information, sometimes deceptively simple, but what I now know to have
been the key to what later shifted the course of my life. I was extremely impressed
with her emphasis on trusting your own resources and treating doctor's advice
as just guidance, and not the word of god. I learned, to my immense relief (there
is no way now to capture the desperation I felt at the time, I think it amounted
to trauma) that high FSH as an obstacle to conception is overdiagnosed and misunderstood
and that many women like me got their own little death sentences from hot-shot doctors
happy to dismiss their chances of motherhood in a two-minute cell phone conversation
(I was on 12th street and University in Manhattan when mine told me I would probably
never have children without an egg donor).

I immediately logged on to Julia's website [...] and found out that
she was having one of her workshops the very next day in Manhattan. Yippee! I cancelled
my plans and showed up to a room full of women at all stages of experience -- some
were pregnant, some had just happily adopted, some were just embarking on the conception
route and some had been at it for a while. In the center of this circle was a small,
Eastern European magician with a disarming, irreverant manner that I instantly loved
-- Julia Indichova. What she taught me that day and in the one-day workshop my husband
and I subsequently attended in Woodstock will last me a lifetime. Her well-considered,
intuititve, intelligent and extremely powerful techniques are described in her soon
to be published book, The Fertile Female, How the Power of Longing for a Child can
Save Your Life and Change the World, which I encourage everyone to read.

To sum it up, Julia believes -- and is able to transmit that belief -- that the
power of creation lies within us and while there are of course medical considerations
in the process of conception, our own ability to create a child in the world is
too often undervalued and unrecognized. This basic premise is coupled with loads
of practical advice about how nutrition, lifestyle, exercise and numerous other
factors influence the body's power to conceive, so don't think this is just
wooly advice on "positive thinking". It's also not just valuable for
women -- my husband learned a tremendous amount from Julia as well. Julia's
wisdom addresses all levels of body, mind and spirit and most importantly, accepts
that the deep longing for a child is not something to be repressed but rather bottled
and utilized as rocket fuel to bring your baby in to being. She speaks to those
of us who are more zen about creating change in our lives, as well as those who
tend to be highly motivated "doers" -- whoever you are, there is something
for you in her toolbox. Also, and I am convinced of this, what Julia teaches will
become commonplace at some point in the future. It's just taking a long time
for doctors to catch up with her vision.

Today I am 20 weeks pregnant with a little boy and girl (twins!). I did do IVF in
the end -- after cleaning out my body and doing Julia's "body talk"
and other techniques, I ended up bringing my FSH down to 5.2 -- a huge drop my doctors
in London, my second home, said they had never before seen. They also told me that
because the FSH level fluctuates, I may wish to do IVF right away, to take advantage
of the low number. So I did and with extra phone sessions with Julia, I navigated
my way through fertility treatment. For me, it worked the first time and I now feel
like the luckiest girl in the world. Julia will say I just got out of my own way
and let the power of creation take its course. And I think this is actually a good
example of how combining self-belief and medicine brought me what I wanted so dearly.
There are of course medical limits to the body but they are often overestimated.
Julia's advice is also a formula for creating almost anything in your life that
you really, really want. Conception can be a baby but it can also be an idea, a
project, a political movement, anything. Julia is a gem in the world and way ahead
of her time. I highly recommend both of her books and best of all, time spent with
her directly in one of her workshops. What she has taught me will stay with me long
after my children are born.

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