Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

Not Broken is a comprehensive, thoughtful resource for understanding all aspects of first trimester miscarriage and recurrent pregnancy loss. Whether you’re personally struggling with miscarriages or are a medical provider for patients with recurrent pregnancy loss, Not Broken will broaden your perspective as a compassionate lens to evidence-based findings. As a leading voice in fertility medicine, Dr. Lora Shahine provides a detailed overview of Western medicine’s typical approach to miscarriage – including evaluation and treatment – while shining a light on Eastern approaches to care, emotional wellness, and lifestyle changes to decrease risk of miscarriage. You will finish this book feeling empowered to advocate for your care and more hopeful than ever to continue towards your family goals. “I have one word to describe this fabulous book: FINALLY. Women with recurrent pregnancy loss have been needing this book for years.” – Dr. Alice Domar, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and author of Conquering Infertility and Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom Lora Shahine, MD, FACOG, is a reproductive endocrinologist, founder of the Center for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss at Pacific NW Fertility, and clinical faculty in the OBGYN department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Shahine contributes to the fields of infertility and miscarriage with clinical research, writing, speaking, and educating in peer-reviewed journals, her own books and textbook chapters, and many forms of media, including an active social media presence and as host of the Baby or Bust podcast.