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Hi, I'm Jodi Panayotov, the author of In Vitro Fertility Goddess which is a book about my long term drawn out and bumbling quest to have a baby. I'd never have written it had I not discovered, at the age of 37 that my fertility had packed up and left home without a forwarding address. Panicking, I tried everything to find it and get it back - head stands, basal thermometers, blood tests, ovulation kits but to no avail. My husband and I enlisted a medical Coalition of the Willing - herbalist, gyneacologist, endocrinologist, energy healer, IVF clinic nurses - in order to recover it. We even moved from the low fertility inner city of Sydney to the high fertility Gold Coast. I'm not sure what I expected to find there - my fertility wandering the streets of Surfers Paradise sporting a tan perhaps - but we weren't leaving anything to chance. Along the way I kept a diary as a sanity clause, which became the basis for the book. Just about everything about infertility and its treatment struck me as absurd. The very idea that here we were in the 21st century, so advanced that we'd lost the art of reproduction. As a result ‘In Vitro Fertility Goddess' lampoons everything to do with infertility and its treatment. My message in doing this is that sending something up is the first and most important step to conquering it. And in that way it can never overpower you. You may not always win but you'll never feel defeated.