Health & Wellness
A fertility tracker called Glow uses ovulation cycle forecasts and data analytics to advise women on the best times to conceive. This fertility app is for the iPhone, and was created by the co-founder of PayPal. “My wife and I were lucky. We had our children without any issues,” said Max Levchin to Lauren Goode [...]
Here are a few tips for strengthening your marriage during the stress of fertility treatments or the heartbreak of knowing you can’t get pregnant. Some couples are coping with unexplained infertility, which may be “worse” than knowing you can’t get pregnant because of endometriosis, fibroids, or sperm health problems. Knowing why you can’t get pregnant [...]
Selecting the best embryo is the best way to get pregnant with IVF (in vitro fertilization). By “best”, researchers mean the one most likely to result in a successful pregnancy. This summary of research that shows how a new technique of selecting embryos can help you conceive. There are many reasons IVF doesn’t work (read [...]
If you’ve been trying to conceive a baby for months or years, of course you fear it’ll never happen! Here’s how to overcome fear of infertility. These tips are inspired by Lisa Bloom, who is a mother. This is what she writes in Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World: [...]
Knowing what fertility is will help you conceive a baby – or prevent an unwanted pregnancy! The more you know about fertility, the more power you have. Especially if you’re a woman. A reader emailed me, asking “what is fertility?” It’s perfect timing, because of National Infertility Awareness Week (which is now over…so maybe the [...]
If you recently lost a pregnancy, you may feel overwhelmed by the grief you feel. Here are five ways to get the support you need from people who understand what you’re going through. “When I lost my daughter Naomi in my second trimester, I felt complete, utter lonesomeness along with my devastating sadness,” says Kristi [...]
Food directly affects both male and female fertility! Here’s how carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and dairy products affect the chances you’ll get pregnant. This is a re-publication of an article published by the folks at Circle + Bloom. They offer tons of tips on getting pregnant, ovulation, and various fertility treatments – from frozen embryo transfer [...]
Life brings illness, loss, broken relationships, death – but another negative pregnancy test is one of the most disappointing things of all time. Recovering from the disappointment and heartache should get easier the older we get, shouldn’t it? You’d think it would, since most things are easier as time passes. Heartache comes in all shapes [...]
How do you know if you have fertility problems? Many women wonder if they’ll be able to conceive a baby. Here are the most common signs of fertility problems. The first and most obvious sign of a fertility problem is the lack of ability to get pregnant. But, how do you know that you can’t [...]
Almost 30% of couples who can’t get pregnant don’t know why (diagnosis: unexplained infertility). New research shows one possible cause of unexplained infertility in men: DNA damage in individual sperm. About 50,000 couples in the UK require fertility treatments every; worldwide, about one million couples need help getting pregnant. “With one million couples worldwide requiring [...]
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