Resources and Support

 

This list will be updated and expanded on a regular basis.

 

Organisations

Fertility Network UK – www.fertilitynetworkuk.org – offers advice, support and helplines for many aspects of infertility and infertility treatment.

0800 008 7464

and international support associations at:

http://www.infertilitynetworkuk.com/information/useful_links/international_support_links

British Infertility Counselling Association

www.bica.net  Bica’s website helps you to find a specialist fertility counsellor.

British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists

www.bacp.co.uk  An association that lists qualified practitioners.

Resolve – The American Infertility Association

http://www.resolve.org

 

Books

Involuntary Childlessness

Rochelle Ratner (Ed), Bearing Life: Women’s Writings on Childlessness.

 Rachel Black & Louise Scull, Beyond Childlessness.

Miscarriage

Clara Hinton, Silent Grief.

Male Infertility

Mary-Claire Mason, Male Infertility – Men Talking.

Philosophy of Motherhood

Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

 Grief

Dannie Abse, The Presence.

Moving On

Tracey Cleantis, The Next Happy

Articles and Papers

‘It’s like taking a bit of masculinity away from you’:
towards a theoretical understanding of men’s
experiences of infertility’

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12548/epdf