Fertility treatments are much more than medical interventions. Between hormone supplies and egg captures, the mind is filled with thoughts. You feel something in your chest that you haven't felt before. It's a mix of hope and fear. And although it is essential to carry out this process hand in hand with a specialized psychologist (here you can learn more about how to take care of your mental health during your treatment), it is also important to find readings that embrace and accompany us. It's not about being saturated with books on fertility, but about being accompanied by reading that encourages you. So we made a list of books to accompany a fertility treatment for you.
If you are undergoing treatment to conceive:
- In vitro - Isabel Zapata
- Linea nigra - Jazmina Barrera
- The body I was born in - Guadalupe Nettel
- Everything I need already exists in me - Rupi Kaur
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
- Kid Gloves- Lucy Knisley
- Little Fires Everywhere- Celeste Ng
- Small tasks - Rivka Galchen
If you are undergoing treatment for frostbite:
- First person - Margarita Garcia Robauos
- The women who were birds - Terry Tempest Williams
- Untamed - Glennon Doyle
- Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks
- The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
- Big-eyed women - Ángeles Mastretta
- Women Who Run With Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
These are some of the books that we think could help you walk during this journey to fertility. These are not fertility treatment books and, although many do not talk about a medical intervention experience exactly like yours, among their pages you can find echoes that resonate with your feelings. Everyone experiences their process in a unique way, but sometimes between the lines of the books we can find a glimmer of company and, for a few moments, we are less alone.
