Sperm Tales
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Sperm Tales:Infertility is a medical problem defined as the failure of a couple to conceive a childafter one year of unprotected sexual intercourse, or the inability to carry a pregnancy to livebirth. According to the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, infertility affects about6.1 million people in the United States, which is about 10 percent of the reproductive agepopulation.Sperm Tales provides the necessary step-by-step information that enables patients toanticipate and prepare for the various challenges -- medically and otherwise -- that attend theprocess of infertility treatment. Sperm Tales is written by veteran infertility expert, LynnCollins, whose up-to-date information and compassionate voice, will put couples at ease andmay even make them laugh. At the end of her book she includes a short chapter introducing“Spanky.” Spanky is a sperm who, years ago was given to Collins as plastic toy that now sits onher desk as her clinic’s mascot. Over the course of her 12 years of working in the clinic shekept a notebook documenting humorous asides uttered from the patients during the variousphases and indignities of treatment. Spanky’s presence on the desk, and as “the mascot” ofSperm Tales, serves as a reminder that at times during the stress of treatment, humor is thebest medicine.Often people feel vulnerable and embarrassed when embarking infertility treatment.?The goal of Sperm Tales is to disarm the fear and take the reader’s hand while navigating theprocess. Sperm Tales helps the reader understand that those in the field who accompany themon the journey have seen and heard it all when it comes to hardship and humor of the processand that they are there to help. Why We Need Sperm Tales“Couples are in this together, and at the same time are coming from very different and veryemotional places. By the time they get to this point they are discouraged,
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