This book has been written to provide hope, support, motivation and focus for
couples who are trying to conceive a child. It has evolved from a body of
research carried out in the form of hundreds of interviews with childless
couples, their doctors, and fertility specialists. Dr Konecna, (who was for many
years childless herself and therefore has a profound empathy and understanding
of the issues) is able to consider the deeply emotional subject of "involuntary
childlessness" both from the scientific viewpoint of a professional obstetrician
and from the humanitarian aspect of a sympathetic mother herself. "On the Quest
for a Child" succeeds on a number of