Overview

Are you one of the millions of couples desperately trying to conceive a baby? Are you aware that diet plays a critical role in fertility? Would you like to unlock the secrets to changing your diet and potentially increasing your chances of success? Co-authors Cindy Bailey and Pierre Giauque—when confronted with Cindy’s medical prognosis of a two percent chance of conceiving a baby on her own—unlocked those secrets to develop a “fertility diet” that four months later produced a viable pregnancy, and soon after a healthy baby.

The Fertile Kitchen® Cookbook includes a variety of simple-to-make tasty dishes that make the diet easy to follow. In this cookbook, the authors share these flavorful recipes, along with the dietary guidelines that helped them succeed. Additional tips and even a section on cooking basics, are included. You will learn:

• The importance of diet in conception and pregnancy
• What foods you can and cannot eat to enhance fertility
• How to identify and shop for healthy ingredients and food items
• How to prepare and cook the nutritious and fertility-enhancing recipes included

Fertile Kitchen® doesn’t guarantee success for every couple, but the cookbook does put you on a wholesome, healthful diet that is at the very least good for you. We hope you enjoy it—and we wish you success in your fertility endeavors.

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About the Book

By design, The Fertile Kitchen® Cookbook is intended to be an easy-to-use tool to support you on your journey toward parenthood. Here’s how:

• In its layout, full-color presentation and simple-to-follow recipes, this cookbook    makes rigid dietary guidelines easy to take. Information is effortless to find, and    guidelines and recipes, painless to follow.
• Recipes are practical, not sophisticated. They are straightforward, yet full of flavor,    variety and ethnic diversity so you won’t get bored and give up.
• We made our recipes flexible so that you can effortlessly accommodate substitutions    for a less strict diet, or to meet your own dietary preferences or needs.
• We include expert advice. We base recipes on generally accepted dietary guidelines,    those which represent current prevalent dietary wisdom in the area of fertility, and    are backed by research and common sense. It’s also the diet that worked for us.
• We wrote dietary guidelines so they’re simple to follow. We also wrote this book as a    supplement to your efforts to conceive; however, it is intentionally not a medical    book filled with scientific analysis. We kept it simple: just stating what you can and    cannot eat (or do) and why.
• Our cookbook provides it all in one place—everything you need to succeed on this    diet, including what foods to buy and eat, and where to find them; basic equipment    needed; cooking basics and more. If you have never followed a diet as strict as this    one before or are new to cooking, we have a section for you!
• We understand what busy lives we all lead on top of the drain of fertility issues and    we provide shortcut options to save on effort or time—such as accommodating the    use of organic canned tomatoes instead of fresh ones, if it’s easier or necessary.

Although our dietary guidelines and tips are backed by research and represent what worked for us, we encourage you to choose for yourself what makes sense to you on this journey. Everyone is different and has unique needs. Our recipes are flexible to accommodate changes if required.
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Who this Book Is for

This cookbook is for:

• Women and couples who are having trouble conceiving—that is, they have been trying    to conceive for six months or more without success—whether or not they seek    medical assistance.
   Even if medical procedures are required to aid conception, as in the case of blocked    tubes, for example, optimal nutrition may still improve success of those procedures.    Check with a reproductive endocrinologist (a fertility specialist) to learn more.
• Men who wish to support their partners in a cooking project they can share together    as well as men with fertility issues themselves.
   We also recommend that men go on the diet even if they have no known fertility    issues themselves. Ten to 15 percent of couples have unexplained infertility and you    can never know for sure how much of a couple’s total fertility comes from that.
• Anyone interested in a healthier, cleaner diet for long-term health.
• Cooks and non-cooks alike, as this cookbook supports new cooks.

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