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For Immediate Release - September 2004
Keeping the Love Alive While Trying to Make a Baby
National Infertility Awareness Week – September 26
Fertility Coach Offers a Lifeline
for Millions of Couples Trying to Conceive
Love and romance can often take a back seat to the basal thermometers, hormone shots, and ovulation charts that millions of aspiring parents hope will get the job done. And for the one in six American couples working to overcome infertility issues, feelings of frustration, hopelessness, and miscommunication can cause a radical change in their daily lives and in their relationship with their partner.
Nationwide fertility coach and author Kristen Magnacca has been there. Now the mother of two, Kristen shares her and her husband's challenging experiences with infertility and provides much-needed life-saving strategies. Love and Infertility: Survival Strategies for Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life (LifeLine Press) shows how to keep the love alive while trying to make a baby.
Drawn from Kristen and her husband, Mark, who's national speaking seminar "Strategies for Survival: Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life," Love and Infertility focuses on the importance of sharing and communicating so that a couple can move successfully through infertility without the stress of becoming all-encompassing and overwhelming. With honest humor and candid personal accounts, Kristen reveals tips, exercises, and rare bits of wisdom to guide couples through the hardships and help them to work as a team, evolving from a childless couple to expectant parents. Love and Infertility offers twenty-eight survival strategies, including:
- The Fertility Game Plan: A concrete plan to help a couple work as a team (not as easy as it sounds, says Kristen) when trying to conceive.
- The Power of Visualizatio: A powerful strategy featuring mental rehearsal of upcoming events in order to gain a sense of control and quiet fears.
- The Gratitude List: An exercise for couples to do nightly before bed to help them focus on their lives' abundance and what they are grateful for.
- The Elevator Speech: A brief, well-rehearsed response to insensitive questions from others.
Love and Infertility gives infertile couples a plan for avoiding emotional pitfalls and hardships as they transition from individuals to a couple working as a team to create another human life.
Kristen Magnacca is also the author of Girlfriend to Girlfriend: A Fertility Companion (2000) and has appeared on the Today Show. She has also been featured in Woman's World Magazine, The Boston Globe, WebMD.com, About.com, and Pregnancy.org.
To order a copy of Love and Infertility or other books by Kristen, or request an interview with Kristen Magnacca, please go to her Web site at www.kristenmagnacca.com.
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