Preparing for Pregnancy Articles
Supercharge Your Fertility: TTC Tips and Products to Help You Along the Way
When it comes to "babymaking," essential preconception tips often correspond with specific fertility products designed to help couples get pregnant or conceive sooner!
Love Your Butter, Baby!
Butter helps make healthy babies! Butter boosts fertility! Butter helps keep us fit! Curious? Read more!
Prenatal Vitamins
Prenatal supplements consist of a variety of vitamins and minerals. During pregnancy, a woman's daily intake requirements for certain nutrients, such as folic acid (folate), calcium, and iron will increase. Vitamins and minerals such as iron, calcium, and folic acid are vital for proper fetal growth, development, and healthy adult living.
Before Hiring a Midwife
Before you hire a midwife, be sure to interview several carefully. Take your time reviewing their history, call up their references, have a list of questions handy, research the legal issues in your state and ask the midwife for proof of her certification.
Increase Fertility Through Nutrition!
How exciting that specific foods can actually increase fertility! According to research at the Harvard School of Public Health's department of nutrition, women who followed five or more lifestyle or dietary recommendations reduced their risk of ovulatory infertility by as much as 80%. The bottom line 10 key recommendations to increase your fertility include:
Trying to Conceive Terms and Acronyms
Starting the "trying to conceive" journey is a lot like traveling in a foreign land -- complete with a new language! Were you wondering if the author was really writing in English the last article you read? To help with translation, we've put together an annotated acronym list.Getting Him into Babymaking
Let's get to the very crux of the parenting matter -- conception and sex. There are some very important do's and dont's that every woman out there needs to know to get the best performance from their steed. How can you keep him on the job at the crucial times without turning what should be everyone's favorite past time into an experience to rival milking time at the dairy?
Post-Miscarriage Checklist
The following is a list of information your doctor will need/ask from you after you have had more than three miscarriages (Habitual Abortions).
Wiring a Child's Brain: Key Parenting Points
As we now know, we can no longer separate the mind from the body, or nature from nurture. Even more important, our new knowledge will change the way we parent and teach the young.
Checking Your Biological Clock
Despite the long lifespan American women now enjoy, their reproductive lifespan remains unchanged. In most women, a gradual decline in fertility begins in the late 20s and then drops off more sharply around age 35 and then again around 40.
Supercharge Your Fertility: TTC Tips and Products to Help You Along the Way
When it comes to "babymaking," essential preconception tips often correspond with specific fertility products designed to help couples get pregnant or conceive sooner!
Are You Ready to Have Another Baby?
Some women are ready to plunge into another pregnancy while they still have one or more children in diapers, others don't even want to think about seeing the pregnancy test come back positive again until their youngest child hops on the school bus for kindergarten! Here are some factors to consider when you're trying to decide whether you're ready to have another baby.
Birth Control: Frequently Asked Questions
There are several reasons why the Pill can fail, or be less effective. Some medication prescribed by your doctor can have some adverse effects on the pill. Some known medications that can actually lessen the Pill's effectiveness are certain antibiotics...
Conception Countdown: Your Health Questions Answered
Does "having a baby" top your list of New Year's Resolutions? There's no time like the present to start preparing your body for pregnancy. Whether this is your first time up at bat or you're hoping to conceive your second or subsequent baby, there's plenty you and your partner can do right now to increase your odds of giving birth to a healthy baby.
Fertility and Conception Tips
Hoping to get pregnant soon? You've come to the right place! Here's everything you need to know to maximize your chances of conceiving quickly and to get your pregnancy off to the healthiest possible start.
Counting Your Eggs: Can a New Test Predict Your Future Fertility?
For women trying to determine how long they can postpone starting a family, a new fertility predictor, called Plan Ahead, may provide some insight into the length of their fertile lifespan, but does this test offer only false promises?
Pre-Pregnancy Checklist
So you have decided to have a child. Congratulations. Welcome to a whole new world of choices. Never before have your decisions had such a profound impact on another person. Everything you eat, drink, breathe and touch can affect your baby. But before you throw away your morning coffee or tea take a few minutes and read these common sense thoughts on pregnancy.
Step by Step Directions for the BBT Charting Tool
Are you totally confused on how to use the charting tool or just need a few helpful hints? Here are the instructions to help it all make sense.
PCOS (Polyscystic Ovarian Syndrome)
PCOS also known as Stein-Leventhal syndrome is a disorder in which the ovaries are enlarged with cysts, with levels of male hormones.
Trying to Conceive Terms and Acronyms
Starting the "trying to conceive" journey is a lot like traveling in a foreign land -- complete with a new language! Were you wondering if the author was really writing in English the last article you read? To help with translation, we've put together an annotated acronym list.
- Advice Before Pregnancy
- Are You Ready to Have Another Baby?
- Before Hiring a Midwife
- Birth Control: Frequently Asked Questions
- Checking Your Biological Clock
- Conception Countdown: Your Health Questions Answered
- Considerations Before Having a Baby
- Counting Your Eggs: Can a New Test Predict Your Future Fertility?
- Fertility Advice for Overweight and Obese Women
- Fertility and Conception Tips
- Fertility Supplements: A New Era in Fertility Support
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) & Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE)
- Folic Acid
- Getting Him into Babymaking
- How to Chart your Basal Body Temperature
- How to Get the Most Out of Your GYN Visit
- Increase Fertility Through Nutrition!
- Love Your Butter, Baby!
- Oops, I Forgot to Have a Baby
- PCOS (Polyscystic Ovarian Syndrome)
