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Fertility Basics
The fertility essentials you need to know—from charting your monthly cycle to understanding your hormones—for maximizing your chances of getting pregnant faster.

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Are Your Eggs Fresh Enough to Get Pregnant?

They're inside you when you’re born, and gone by menopause. But how much do you really know about...

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The Changing Fertility Seasons

Is there a “right” time of year to make a baby? Obviously, every couple has to decide that...

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Your Menstrual Cycle, Your Fertility

A typical menstrual cycle is 28 days long, with menstruation occurring on day 1.

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The Path to Getting Pregnant

From the blissful simplicity of spontaneous, unprotected sex to the scientific complexity of in vitro fertilization…and everything in...

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Hormones and their Role in Fertility

Most women, until they’re trying to conceive, probably think of hormones—if they think of them at all—as pesky...

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Eggs, Fertility, and Age: How It Works

The life cycle of an egg is complex, but knowing how your eggs age can help you to...

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Male Fertility and the Sperm Saga

For fertilization (and pregnancy) to occur, sperm must travel from Point A—the male reproductive system—to Point B—the female...

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Fertility Vocabulary

You may sometimes feel that you need a medical degree to understand the biology of conception and the...

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Timing is Everything When You're Trying to Conceive

What do women most want to know when they’re trying to conceive?

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The Yellow Body: Important for Menstruation...and Pregnancy

You’ve probably never heard of the corpus luteum (“yellow body” in Latin), but this tissue that’s produced—and discarded—by...

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Your Three Fertility Cycles

You may think you've just got one monthly cycle controlling whether or not you conceive every month, but...

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Boy or Girl: Can You Get Pregnant and Choose Your Baby's Sex?

Heads a girl, tails a boy.  For most couples, the odds of predicting the gender of their child...

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Menstruation and Fertility

Have you ever wondered why women menstruate, and why periods occur approximately once a month? Find out what...

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Fertility and Your "Other" Biological Clock

When women talk about their biological clocks, they’re usually talking about how age affects the ability to have...



Get Pregnant

Stressed Out About Fertility? Start Laughing!

Whether you’ve been trying to conceive for a few months or a few years, chances...

10 Fun Things to Do Together Before Getting Pregnant

Before you and your partner were prospective parents, you were lovers—and you still are. But...

Basal Body Temperature is Key to Determining Ovulation

Basal body temperature (BBT) is your morning body temperature before you get out of bed....

How to Keep Sex Smokin' When Trying to Conceive

There’s no reason you can’t have it, even when you’re trying to conceive. If your...

Boost Your Fertility

How Your Past Could Affect Your Fertility Today

Can former lifestyle and health problems affect your fertility today?

Vitamins to Take Before Getting Pregnant

Ordinary one-a-day type or women’s specialty? Prenatal or multi? Prescription or not? When you’re trying...

Considering Your Family Tree When Trying to Conceive

You may have inherited your mom’s freckles, or your grandfather’s eyes—but do you know what...

Pelvic Floor Exercises

You can’t see your pelvic floor muscles, and exercising them won’t lead to flat abs...

Fertility Concerns

Digestive Disorders and Fertility

Babies don’t grow in their mommies’ stomachs (though we often tell children they do), but...

Anorexia or Anorexia Nervosa

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Tests That Could Decrease Frequent Miscarriage

Multiple miscarriages used to be a medical mystery, but new scientific research is shedding light...

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Infertility

Pros and Cons of International Fertility Treatments

Sometimes the journey to pregnancy takes a woman far from home and, increasingly, to other...

The 7 Most Common Fertility Drugs

By now you’ve probably heard of Clomid, the most commonly-used fertility drug in the...

Taking the Fertility Drug Clomid

Information and day-to-day changes for women taking one of the most commonly used fertility drugs....

Generous Donations: Egg Donors and Surrogates

When a couple is having trouble conceiving or carrying a pregnancy, sometimes a “third party” is enlisted...