Getting Pregnant

Trying to get pregnant? Getting pregnant should be lots of fun, but it can be tricky. Get expert advice on fertility and tips on increasing your odds when trying to conceive.

Endometriosis and Its Effect on Your Fertility – the condition and its treatment

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Endometriosis and Its Effect on Your Fertility Understanding the condition and its treatment

Learn what endometriosis is and how it can affect your fertility. Every month when a woman has a period, the cells that line the uterus, known as the endometrium, are shed in the menstrual flow. Some small portion of this combination of blood and endometrial cells may also pass out through the fallopian tubes into the abdominal cavity. Most of … Read more about Endometriosis and Its Effect on Your Fertility – the condition and its treatment

Your Fertility: Understanding Natural Conception

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Your Fertility: Understanding Natural Conception

For better chances of success in conceiving, or in case conception proves difficult, it is important to have a full understanding of the way things are supposed to work. Here’s what you need to know. Human conception is an elegantly simple and marvelously complex series of events. It is important to have a full understanding … Read more about Your Fertility: Understanding Natural Conception

How Ovulation Happens: your cycle from Day 1 through the luteal phase

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How Ovulation Happens

Before you and your partner try to have a baby, understand the system! Learn about ovulation and discover important tips to help you conceive. To really understand ovulation and the menstrual cycle—and especially to understand irregularities or changes to the cycle—it’s important to know the events that result in normal cyclic function. Let’s start with … Read more about How Ovulation Happens: your cycle from Day 1 through the luteal phase

When to Test His Fertility – How to identify and manage Male Infertility

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When to Test His Fertility - How to identify and manage Male Infertility

Are you and your partner having troubles conceiving? Learn how to identify and manage male infertility. What Is Semen Analysis? As many as 40 percent of all couples have difficulty conceiving due to some compromise of the sperm count or sperm function; therefore, a semen analysis should be one of the very first tests done for couples … Read more about When to Test His Fertility – How to identify and manage Male Infertility

The Two-Week Wait Strategies for coping until you can test

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The Two-Week Wait Strategies for coping until you can test

The two-week wait, also referred to as “2WW” on fertility discussion boards, can be agonizing for all couples, but especially so for ones with fertility issues. What is the Two-Week Wait? For those unfamiliar with the term, the two-week wait is the time between ovulation and the beginning of a woman’s next period. For women … Read more about The Two-Week Wait Strategies for coping until you can test

Find Your Most Fertile Days: A Guide to Tracking Your Fertility

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Common Period Problems: top questions about irregular menstrual cycles answered

Understanding, tracking, and charting fertility signs can be a surprisingly easy and inexpensive shortcut to getting pregnant. Find out how. Denise Hawks thought that getting pregnant would be easy, but after several months of trying with no success, Hawks decided to track her fertility to discover when her most fertile days were each cycle. This … Read more about Find Your Most Fertile Days: A Guide to Tracking Your Fertility

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