Dana Trentini - Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease: A Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Wellness

Praise for Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease

Dana Trentini and Mary Shomon are a formidable pair of thyroid advocates. This book will change the lives of millions of women and their babies.

David Borenstein, MD, founder, Manhattan Integrative Medicine

Praise for Mary Shomons previous books

This informative self-help manual is badly needed.

Publishers Weekly

... inspirational for those afflicted with mysterious conditions... offers solid, practical advice for getting your health back on track.

Alternative Medicine Magazine

Shomon excels at comprehensiveness, covering all the decisions that a patient has to make when dealing with thyroid conditions.

Library Journal

At last, a magnificent breakthrough in the management of excess weight.

Richard Shames, MD, and Karilee Halo Shames, PhD, RN

Help and hope for millions who have despaired of ever losing weight and regaining their energy.

Hyla Cass, MD, author of Natural Highs

Mary Shomon is an outstanding advocate for patient health, and youll find her book to be outstanding as well!

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of From Fatigued to Fantastic

Mary Shomon offers practical and effective solutions that will help millions finally conquer their weight problems.

Steve Langer, MD, author, Solved: The Riddle of Illness

I can think of few conditions more challenging to patients and the medical profession than fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Once again Mary Shomon has shed an incredible light on what really matterseverything from how to get an accurate diagnosis to finding the best treatment.

Marie Savard, author of How to Save Your Own Life

If youre one of the millions afflicted with fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue, or think you may be, start changing your life for the better now by reading this crucial book. There are very real answers that will help you even more than you dare to hope, and Mary Shomon has done an absolutely masterful job of providing them to you here.

Dr. Joseph Mercola, author of The No-Grain Diet

[Mary Shomon] provides a comprehensive service for sufferers of thyroid disease.

Time

Mary Shomon is rattling the cages of the thyroid mandarins.

Elle

Also by Mary Shomon:

The Thyroid Diet

Living Well with Hypothyroidism

The Thyroid Diet Revolution

Living Well with Autoimmune Disease

The Menopause Thyroid Solution

Living Well with Graves Disease and Hyperthyroidism

The Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough

Living Well with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

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Copyright 2016 by Mary Shomon and Dana Trentini

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This book is written in memory of my lost baby and in dedication to my sons Benjamin and Hudson who beat the odds and made it to the world.

DT

For Julia and Dannyyou have all my loveand to my lost little one, I love you, too; you deserved a chance to be in this world.

MS

Table of Contents

Contents

How do I thank the woman who helped me get pregnant with my son Hudson when doctors discouraged me from having more children after my miscarriage? You are my thyroid hero, Mary Shomon. I remember the day I met our agent, Carol Mann, in her New York City office, and I knew this woman would change my life. Rene Sedliar, with your sweet manner, you put me at ease throughout the entire process of creating my very first book. Thank you, Lisa Kaufman, for your edit recommendations that made this book flow perfectly. To the Perseus team, you rock! Thank you to all the incredible experts we interviewed. I hope you know that by generously sharing your knowledge for this book, you will save babies around the world. Thank you to the thyroid advocates who work tirelessly to let people know they are not aloneMichelle Bickford, Izabella Wentz, Suzy Cohen, Danna Bowman, Stacey Robbins, Lorraine Cleaver, Denise Fleming, Sarah Downing, Beth Jones, Helle Sydendal, Tiffany Mladinich, Jen Wittman, Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, Zen Thyroid, Blythe Clifford, Marissa Ravelo, Robert Chapman, Laura Scheunemann, Marc Ryan, Carol Gray, Jill A. Gurfinkel, Maggie Hadleigh-West, and Gena Lee Nolin. To my Hypothyroid Mom followers, you are a blessing to me. Thank you to my mom, Ron, Marie, Paul, Jenny, Johann, John, Gloria, Norm, Jennifer, Anthony, John Paul, Elise, Laura, Jennifer, Carmen, Maria, Rina, Leo, Manuel, Milana, Nicholas, Sylvia, Ricky, Lola, John, Sorena, Zackery, Giselle, and my angels (my dad, grandparents, Giulio, and Patrick).

Dana Trentini

I would first like to thank Dana Trentini, my coauthor, for her amazing vision, energy, and advocacy for our fellow thyroid patients. Dana is a pleasure and joy to work with, and I know this is just the first of many books to come from her. Many thanks to literary superagent Carol Mann and her staff, who are gurus at transforming dreams and passions into amazing books. Much gratitude to our editor, Rene Sedliar, and her top-notch colleagues at Perseus, who shared our vision of the importance of this book and helped us make it a far better book at each step in the process. I must also thank all of the amazing doctors and experts who shared information for the bookyour knowledge and generous spirits are helping more women become mothers, and helping babies have a healthier start. Many thanks to all the advocates Dana listedIm proud to be in the thyroid trenches with you all, helping to spread the word! Love and thanks to my right-hand go-to person, BFF, and most organized person in the world, Jane Frank. I also want to thank Cynthia Wallentine and Julia Schopick for their help and support. I must include my friends around the United States and the world, whose faith, love, and support is oxygen. And finally, my family, and in particular, my children who have given me the immense joy of motherhood, an experience that should never be denied any woman due to misdiagnosis or mismanagement of her thyroid problem.