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Healthy Relationships
It's an exciting time in your relationship once you've both decided that you're ready for a baby. But now it's important more than ever to keep communication up and to take time for each other.

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Conception-Moons: Romantic Getaways Designed To Get You Pregnant

Honeymoons are for newlyweds, but why should the just-married have all the fun? All couples enjoy getting away...

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Stressed Out About Fertility? Start Laughing!

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

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9 Ways to De-Stress Your Marriage

Modern stress comes at you from a lot of different directions, and trying to have a baby...

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How to Keep Your Relationship Strong When Trying to Conceive

Once you and your husband decide it’s time to be parents, you’ve changed your relationship even before the...

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Remembering the Romance When Trying to Get Pregnant

Keeping connected when you’re trying to conceive doesn’t have to be complicated. A noted relationship expert reveals the...

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I'm Ready to Have a Baby, He's Not

Even couples who agree about most things may find themselves at odds when it comes to the timing...

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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 that’s easy to...

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How to Decide You're Ready to Have a Baby

Five questions to ask yourself—and your partner—to be sure that you’ve picked the right time—and the right reasons—to...

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How Kissing Can Help You Conceive

Playful, platonic, passionate, or parental, kisses transmit a surprising amount of information. In fact, they even play an...

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Planning a Pre-Pregnancy Trip: 4 Steps to a Relaxing Vacation

Whether you’re off to the big city, an island resort, or the great outdoors, use this relationship advice...

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Talking Traps: How to Overcome Issues About Getting Pregnant

We’ve all heard that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. And we’ve all yelled, “You just...

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Try Relaxing With These Couples Massage Techniques

Grab your partner and give him a rubdown. And then have him do the same for you....

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From Partners to Parents: How Couples Can Prepare for Pregnancy

Growing from a couple into a family is a big transition, and while it’s mostly a joyous change,...

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How Dance Can Get You and Your Partner in the Mood for Baby-Making

Dancing is a fabulous way for couples to get close, have fun...and put each other in the mood....



Get Pregnant

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...

Sex Ed: What You Need To Know To Make a Baby

Here’s everything they didn’t teach you in school about how to make babies the old-fashioned...

How Birth Control Could Affect Your Fertility

By the time you’re ready to think about starting a family, you may already have...

How Cervical Mucus Helps Predict Your Most Fertile Days

Get over the gross-out factor and learn how to use cervical mucus to let you...

Boost Your Fertility

5 Ways Your Brain Can Help You Get Pregnant

Conception is far more complicated than a simple sperm-meets-egg scenario. While healthy reproductive organs are...

Can a Vegan Diet Help You Conceive?

New research has found that eating less meat and more fruits and vegetables may improve...

Genetic Tests to Consider Before Getting Pregnant

There are now tests to detect genetic carriers for dozens of hereditary conditions.

How To Improve Your Preconception Health

Join Conceive Magazine in supporting the government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) campaign...

Fertility Concerns

Crohn's Disease

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Tubal Ligation (and Reversal)

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Bulimia

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Internal Scars Could Be Threatening Your Fertility

Whether they’re a recent acquisition or left over from years ago, internal scars that you...

Infertility

Tips for Choosing a Sperm Donor

For couples who can’t conceive with the husband’s sperm, or single women who want a...

How to Hire a Reproductive Attorney

If you’re facing fertility challenges and turning to assisted reproductive technologies, you may need some...

The Power of Pets When You're Trying to Conceive

They’re not just “child-substitutes.” Pets are companions, stress-relievers, and practice dependents. And they may be...

13 Terrific Tips for Happy Holidays

No matter where you are in your journey to parenthood, holidays can be a time...