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Part I: Ovulation, Fertile Days & Getting Pregnant

Admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:34:39 +0000

Learn how fertility charting can help you to find your most fertile days and your ovulation date to maximize conception chances while trying to conceive. Determine which days in your menstrual cycle give you the best chance of getting pregnant.

Six Popular Misconceptions about Conception

Admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:56:14 +0000

• You can’t get pregnant while you have your period. FALSE-It’s highly unlikely that you will, but it is completely possible! If you plan on having sex and don’t want to get pregnant, use protection EVERY time you make love!
• If you want to get pregnant, you should lie on your back during sex (missionary style) and remain on your back after intercourse is over. FALSE-Couples can conceive from any sexual position and you do not need to stay on your back when you’re done. There are millions of sperm during a single ejaculation, some will stay up there even if you get up quickly.
• You can’t get pregnant the first time you have sex. FALSE-and not only false, but the younger you are the most fertile you are and the MORE likely you are to get pregnant, whether it’s your first, tenth, or millionth time.
• Pulling out is a valid form of birth control-FALSE-Not only can STDs pass from one partner to another pre-ejaculation, but a woman can get pregnant if even the smallest amount of pre-cum goes into her vagina.
• If you’re using birth control, you won’t get pregnant. FALSE-Oral contraceptives are only 99% effective and condoms and other barrier forms of birth control are even less than that. If you’re going to have sex, you need to accept that there’s a chance, even if it’s ever so slight, that you may conceive. Even the morning after pill is not 100% effective.
• Everybody ovulates at the same time so it’s easy to know when you’re fertile. FALSE-everybody’s bodies work at different paces, and while a 28-day cycle with ovulation on day 14 is standard, the actual range of “normal” spans a few weeks long. Unless you’ve taken specific tests that indicated if and when you ovulated, all other methods of guessing may not be foolproof.

Fertility Calculator: How to get pregnant guide.

Admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:32:16 +0000

Dr Chris Steele discusses with Sian Welby how to work out when you have the best chance of conception. First of course both you and your partner have to be fertile. Check that first. If so then the woman needs to work out when she is at her most fertile. This is 14 days BEFORE the start of her next period. Don’t worry, you can use our handy online fertility calculator to do this at www.thefamilygp.com You should try to conceive 2 days before this date, on this date and 2 days after it. This …

Natural Fertility Boosters

Admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:27:32 +0000

If you’re ready to expand your family, you may need a little help (outside of the bedroom, of course!) Watch more fertility-enhancing tips: sexhealthguru.com

Toxic Waters and Male Infertility

Admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:15:31 +0000

I’m sure most of you have heard about the story of Ms. Suleman, who recently gave birth to octuplets (the longest surviving in the US) after having 8 embryos implanted into her womb. This young mother of 6 (now 14) has a great passion for children and wanted badly to have her own large family; she did everything in her power to get it after having no success with natural conception. Yes, in vitro fertilization and infertility are words that you hear about so much these days that you’ve got to wonder, what’s happened to our reproductive health? A condition of the reproductive system that impairs the conception of children, infertility affects about 6.1 million individuals throughout the US. The diagnosis of infertility is usually given to couples who have been attempting to conceive for at least 1 year without success.

There are many theories out there as to the reasons for infertility. Is it the pesticides and hormones in the foods we eat, is it the soy formula that babies drink or maybe a combination of all the above? Well, a recent study from Brunel University, the Universities of Exeter and Reading and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the UK has published research that may be another piece of the overall fertility puzzle.
Their study identified a new group of chemicals that act as ‘anti-androgens,’ meaning that they inhibit the function of testosterone, reducing male fertility. What’s scary is that some of these are contained in medicines, like cancer treatments, pharmaceutical treatments, and pesticides and the research suggests that when they get into the water system, they may play a pivotal role in imparting feminine effects in male fish. These pollutants are likely to be coming from a wide variety of sources and the findings strengthen the argument that the hormone disruption in fish, may be related to the rise in male reproductive problems. While there is not enough info out there yet for us to conclude, I repeat what I’ve always felt is best: stick to organic food and drink the cleanest water that you can for a clean and healthy body. Your gonads will thank you.