Thank you to Growing Generations for sponsoring the following post. All opinions are my own. Having problems conceiving can make parents-to-be feel hopeless. My son took only two months to conceive, but my daughter took a bit longer. After losing my first pregnancy to a miscarriage, I experienced anovulation. For nearly six months, I felt […] More
Over five years ago when my husband and I began trying to expand our family, I started reading Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler. As far as taking charge of my personal fertility, cervical mucus charting interested me the most. Because […] More
Stress can increase the risk of heart disease and mental health problems such as depression. Now a new study the journal Human Reproduction suggests that stress while trying to conceive can cause difficulty getting pregnant. The present study led by Dr. Courtney Denning-Johnson Lynch, director of reproductive epidemiology at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center […] More
Although there has been considerable focus on maternal weight before and during pregnancy, paternal obesity may cause altered gene expression in the pancreas and fat of children, suggests new research published online in The FASEB Journal. Using a rodent model, researchers at the Pharmacology School of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales […] More
