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Can Multivitamins Help You Get Pregnant? How Vitamins Affect Fertility

Taking vitamins (especially multivitamins) can enhance ovulation, help you get pregnant, and affect fertility rates. I didn’t realize how important multivitamins are for women trying to get pregnant until I read The Fertility Diet!

“Does taking a daily multivitamin prevent disease or help you live longer?” ask in Jorge Chavarro and Walter Willett in The Fertility [...]

Acupuncture Treatments for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can affect a woman’s fertility levels – and acupuncture treatment can help her get pregnant!

Here’s what one woman says about acupuncture treatments and polycystic ovary syndrome:

“To our great surprise we were blessed with a third pregnancy during the PCOS study,” said Rebecca Killmeyer of Charlottesville, Virginia. “I’m absolutely certain the acupuncture [...]

Foods to Avoid When Trying to Get Pregnant

Whether you’re coping with infertility or just trying to get pregnant, make sure you avoid certain foods! Peas, for instance, is a food that can prevent you from conceiving a baby.

“[Some foods] may delay or in some cases even prevent you from conceiving,” writes Niels Lauersen, MD, PhD & Colette Bouchez in Getting Pregnant. “One of these [...]

How Hypnosis Can Help You Get Pregnant

Hypnosis can not only help you get pregnant, research also shows it doubles the success rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures. Here’s what one certified clinical hypnotherapist says about how hypnosis affects infertility, stress, and your chances of getting pregnant.

First, here’s how hypnosis works:

“Some people believe hypnosis causes the brain to release natural substances [...]

5 Easy Ways to Improve Fertility

These five easy ways to improve your fertility are from Niels Lauersen, MD, and Colette Bouchez, the folks over at the fertility website GettingPregnantNow. 

“If you’re having trouble getting pregnant but not yet ready for fertility treatments,” say Lauersen and Bouchez, “there are things you can try on your own to encourage a faster conception!”

Niels Lauersen, MD and Colette [...]

5 Tips for Boosting Your Fertility

These five tips for boosting your fertility may help you get pregnant – and here’s why you should keep trying to have a baby, even in these uncertain economic times!

Fertility experts at Pulling Down the Moon say, “History shows that during a recession, birth rates drop as couples delay childbearing.  In current times where most [...]

7 Tips for Improving Female Fertility

These tips for improving female fertility are from physician and author Dr Jacob Teitelbaum. He shares his advice on getting pregnant for women… 

Before the tips, a quip:

“Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, ‘Why am I here?’ I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? [...]