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Today, one in four of us trying for a baby will encounter difficulties, so there could be no better time for The Fertile Fizz. Essentially, a very sexy biology lesson, this ground-breaking book by Jani White, the UK's leading fertility expert in integrative medicine, teaches us that in order to conceive we need to embrace the fizz in our relationships.Offering sound advice and warm wisdom about the unspoken side of procreation, Jani delivers powerful and practical ways to approach these highly emotive issues, with her characteristic honesty and charm.Beautiful erotic illustrations by Carolyn Weltman and sensual poetry by Rebecca Deacon combine with Jani's expert advice to get you back in the mood and take the tension out of trying to conceive.

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Publié par	Strandweaver Press
Date de parution	25 avril 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783019137
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	18 Mo

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The Fertile
FIZZ
‘Here is a book that not only talks about bringing the spark back to baby-sex – but talks about it from every angle – hormonally, neurologically and erotically . . . this book contains some important messages – important because no one else is saying this’ Dr Jane Lyttleton
‘The chemistry of attraction IS the chemistry of conception’ Jani White
Today, one in four of us trying for a baby will encounter difficulties, so there could be no better time for The Fertile Fizz . Essentially, a very sexy biology lesson, this ground-breaking book by Jani White, the UK’s leading fertility expert in integrative medicine, teaches us that in order to conceive we need to embrace the fizz in our relationships.
Offering sound advice and warm wisdom about the unspoken side of procreation, Jani delivers powerful and practical ways to approach these highly emotive issues, with her characteristic honesty and charm.
Beautiful erotic illustrations by Carolyn Weltman and sensual poetry by Rebecca Deacon combine with Jani’s expert advice to get you back in the mood and take the tension out of trying to conceive.
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The Fertile
FIZZ
Jani White
Artwork by Carolyn Weltman
Poetry by Rebecca Deacon
Published by Strandweaver Press
Text © 2016 Jani White
Original artwork by Carolyn Weltman. All rights reserved
Original poetry HIM & HER © Rebecca Deacon and The Gypsy Pirate. All rights reserved
The right of Jani White to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by him/her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
ISBN 978-1-7830191-3-7
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, copied in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise transmitted without written permission from the author
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Contents
Foreword by Dr Jane Lyttleton
xi
Introduction
xiv
How to use this book
xvii
CHAPTER ONE
1
Bubbly Fizz
2
The Fertile Fizz
5
Oxytocin Fizz
7
Love and fear
Pregnancy is a receptive process
10
13
Dare to imagine
15
CHAPTER TWO
21
Make lovin’ fun – how to create a fizzy space
22
Getting the warmth back into building up the ‘hot’
23
Hot Tip 1: Make love on an empty stomach!
23
Hot Tip 2: Mornings are for quickies!
24
Hot Tip 3: Make seduction your priority
25
Hot Tip 3a: Massage: super obvious, but so easy to forget
25
Hot Tip 4: Props are a fantastic way to bring on the sexual energy
26
Hot Tip 4a: You need to feel sexy
27
Hot Tip 4b: If it is making you feel silly, don’t wear it
27
Hot Tip 4c: Dressing up is not just for girls
28
Hot Tip 5: Playing with props
28
Hot Tip 5a: Your house is already full of sex toys
28
Hot Tip 6: Erotic imagery can be very stimulating
29
CHAPTER THREE
36
Keeping the Fizz – making love all through the cycle
37
Hot Tip 7: Periods are for hand jobs and blow jobs
38
Timing your lovemaking – the biology of reproduction
42
The menstrual phases
43
Phase 1: The menstruation
43
Phase 2: Pre-ovulation
45
Top Tip: Wear dark knickers for the follicular phase, light knicks for the luteal phase
46
The ovulatory phase
48
The luteal phase – post ovulation (phase 3) and premenstrual (phase 4)
50
CHAPTER FOUR
60
Keeping charting sexy
61
Top tips for easy charting
62
Total Attraction
65
Tilting into after-play
67
Top Tip 9: The recipe for good loving is – whatever works
68
CHAPTER FIVE
74
Back to the chemistry of the Fizz: understanding the autonomic nervous system
75
Sympathetic versus parasympathetic
76
How the sympathetic response works
77
Sustained chronic sympathetic
79
Anticipating stress
80
But – what is stress?
82
The effects of elevated cortisol
84
Making this positive
87
CHAPTER SIX
98
Switchy stresses around conceiving/not conceiving
99
Money matters
100
Workplace politics
103
Affording IVF
106
Realistic preparation for IVF
107
Back to affording IVF
110
CHAPTER SEVEN
117
Dare to hope
118
How to hope
120
How to cope with fear and doubt
124
CHAPTER EIGHT
133
First trimester loss: miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage and repeated IVF failures
134
Normal physiologic miscarriage
135
Recurrent miscarriage
138
Repeated IVF failures
141
Secondary infertility
142
Unwinding a difficult previous birth
144
Doing the detective work …
147
CHAPTER NINE
154
Emotional issues for men – sexual pressure
155
Loving is the foundation to a healthy conception
157
Lack of wood
159
Performance anxiety
163
Yang wilt
166
Women’s libido
170
CHAPTER TEN
177
Guilt and blame – his and hers
178
CHAPTER ELEVEN
184
Seasonal rhythms
185
Circadian rhythms
188
The power of TCM
191
Electro disruption
195
CHAPTER TWELVE
200
Exercise
201
Rest and leisure
205
Ring-fencing and pyjama days
208
The laws of pyjama day
209
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
214
Everyone but me is pregnant
215
The biological clock
218
Reproductive timeline – particular considerations for over-35s
219
The myth of the cliff
223
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
229
AMH and ovarian reserve – what does it really mean?
230
To panic, or not to panic
232
Folliculogenesis
235
When the egg and sperm quality is too low ... to donor or not to donor?
239
Surrogacy
241
Plan B
242
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
247
Making IVF fun – well – in the very least OK ...
248
IVF and sexuality – lovemaking and burgeoning ovaries
251
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
257
What is the correct diet for fertility?
258
The importance of breakfast
261
Insulin balance is vital for fertility
265
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
271
Insulin resistance
272
Your fertility – insulin imbalance and SHBG
275
The Importance of BMI – his and hers
277
Losing weight safely to keep digestive balance
281
Low blood sugar – hypoglycaemia
284
High blood sugar – hyperglycaemia
285
Diabetes
286
Thyroid balance is vital for your fertility
287
Symptoms of hypothyroid
288
Symptoms of hyperthyroid
289
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
297
Caffeine – our barista whizzy culture
298
Alcohol – how much is too much?
305
Ovum
305
Sperms
307
CHAPTER NINETEEN
315
Getting pregnant – yikes! The first trimester – love and fear – again!
316
The Importance of Reassurance
321
Reassurance about diet in the first trimester
323
Lovemaking in the first trimester
328
The biology of the first trimester
330
IN CLOSING
337
Corridors
338
Last words
341
Index of illustrations
346
Index
347
References
354
Appendix A – charting the menstrual cycle
355
Appendix B – supplementary BBT charting notes
358
Appendix C – men’s sexual health
360
Useful Resources
361
Glossary
364
The Artist
368
The Poet
369
The Writer
370
Acknowledgements
371
Foreword
By Dr Jane Lyttleton
I am pleased to be able to introduce a completely different sort of book into the plethora of fertility self-help books that we see on the shelves these days. And The Fertile Fizz certainly is different – it asks the reader to go back to their primal selves, back to where we were before we all became so ‘post-modern’ (and drowned in busyness and technology).
I talk about sex a lot in my clinic – about the hows, whens and wherefores – well mostly the whens, occasionally the hows. And although I am, like the author of this book, guilty of occasionally suggesting breaking the no-alcohol rule for would-be mothers, to encourage a mid-cycle tryst with a tipple, I have to admit the word Fizz has been lacking from the conversation. My patients and I joke about ‘baby-sex’ and the well-known slogan ‘just do it’ … but often it’s more with a sigh of resignation rather than it is with a spark of inspiration.
The question, ‘HOW do we keep having sex over and over, month after month, year after year?’ that couples who have been trying to conceive a long time ask, is an important one that is seldom addressed. But here is a book that not only talks about bringing the spark back to baby-sex – but talks about it from every angle – hormonally, neurologically and erotically.
xi
The Fertile Fizz
Jani White calls this the Fizz. The Brazilians have a good word for it too – ‘Tezao’ (pronounced something like tezaaung). It refers to something or someone particularly exciting and pleasant (though nowadays in street slang it has lost some of its poetry and refers merely to an erection).
This book contains some important messages – important because no one else is saying this – the assisted fertility and IVF clinics certainly don’t! I mean, have you heard them talking about ‘Yang Wilt’? These messages might be confronting to some couples, especially those who have turned to IVF and have relegated sex (let alone Fizz) to the back burner. But Jani uses quirky humour to make a serious matter (not conceiving) into a fun matter (spicing up the bedroom) and provides compelling reasons for couples to stay engaged with the process.
We know now from functional MRI studies that love and desire are not so much emotions but they are actually drives from a more primitive part of the brain. It all starts with puberty and the production of oestrogen and testosterone, the first and most basic hormonal drivers for lust. Then when we meet that special someone who is particularly attractive to us, and feel the ‘Tezao’ or ‘Fizz’, dopamine floods our brains and we are in love – or a state of limerence to use the technical (but still quite romantic) wo