Getting Pregnant
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 [...]
Here you’ll find tips for conceiving a baby, plus links to my most popular articles on increasing your fertility and getting a positive pregnancy test. These five tips are based on advice from the fertility experts at Pulling Down the Moon. They say: “History shows that during a recession, birth rates drop as couples delay [...]
“When am I ovulating?” is the question to ask if you want to get pregnant. There are clues to your fertility in the symptoms of ovulation - they help you identify the best time of month to conceive a baby. These ovulation symptoms can be an alternative to ovulation predictor kits (which can get expensive). “Your menstrual cycle can basically be divided into three [...]
In Yinstill Reproductive Wellness’ 10 steps to pregnancy, the first is goal setting. Here are a few tips on setting and achieving your goal of getting pregnant. Dr Spence Pentland says: “Take, for example, a woman with PCOS: Ideally, our main goal is to see three healthy regular menstrual cycles before trying to conceive. When [...]
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 [...]
These tips are from the specialists at Fertility Ontario; the first way to optimize your chances of conceiving a baby surprised me. In their free ebook, Baby Steps to Fertility: 5 Simple Steps to Natural Fertility, they write: “There is a perception amongst couples who are trying to conceive that the timing of ovulation is [...]
Research shows that a woman’s work affects fertility and her ability to conceive a baby – especially for nurses, flight attendants, and shift workers. Here’s what Fred W. Turek, biology professor and director of Northwestern’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, says about female conception and working: “Our results have important implications for the reproductive [...]
What can you do to help her through in fertility treatments? These tips for helping women cope with in vitro fertilization (IVF) are inspired by a mom who wants to see her daughter get pregnant. Here’s what she says: “My 30 year old daughter had two IVF procedures,” says D. on Why Didn’t IVF Work? [...]
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