Is fertility all in the mind?

Changing roles
In Payne's experience, certain issues crop up again and again which are crucial in determining the reason for the lower fertility rates among women today compared with that of their mother's generation. She cites the shift of women's role within society as a major reason for this change. Many of the women who come to see her have had at least one abortion at around the same age that their mothers gave birth to them. Their reasons for termination were because they didn't want to replicate the lives of their mothers. 'Getting pregnant in their early 20s would mean a loss of autonomy, a loss of economic independence and consequently a loss of freedom. This is the dichotomy that many women are faced with when they now decide they do want a child. All of these have physiological consequences. They're not simply things happening in a bell jar. They're happening in the body and those issues produce disruption of all the hormonal balances.'

Payne has this to say to critics and cynics who accuse her of giving women false hopes: 'I'm not offering guaranteed pregnancy, all I'm offering is a right to investigate and I'm giving women the tools to investigate. I've put my heart my soul and my vast experience into this book. The evidence is not purely anecdotal. Don't accept the medical profession's final word. Here's the book, here's the documentation. Try it!"