Celebs open up about fertility treatments
February 28, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
With so many couples encountering fertility issues these days, one place they can go to seek comfort and information is in the stories of successful fertility treatments for the women of Hollywood, the runways, the media, the music industry and even politics.
February 28, 2010 | Read the story »
Pre-implantation genetics testing offers new hope to pregnancy challenged couples
February 25, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
For couples who have experienced recurrent miscarriages, unsuccessful IVF cycles or unexplained infertility; as well as women of advanced maternal age; new procedures are available in the form of a genetic diagnosis program designed to help achieve a successful pregnancy.
February 25, 2010 | Read the story »
How to raise sperm count
February 24, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
The average male sperm count ranges between 20 million to more than 100 million sperm per milliliter of semen.
According to the Mayo Clinic, less than half the men with sperm counts between 12.5 and 25 million sperm per milliliter are able to get their partner pregnant and less than one-quarter with sperm counts less than 12.5 end up impregnating their partners.
The good news however is, there are treatments available to remedy low sperm count.
February 24, 2010 | Read the story »
How to lower risk of preeclampsia in pregnancy
February 24, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
According to a study from SeonAe Yeo, Ph.D, an associate professor with a specialty in women’s health at the UNC School of Nursing at Chapel Hill, for some women, preeclampsia risks may be lowered by following a simple 40 minute, 5 times a week, stretching routine during pregnancy.
Researchers at the university, lead by Dr. Yeo, [...]
February 24, 2010 | Read the story »
Breakthrough egg freezing process offers new hope
February 24, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · 2 Comments
For those women needing to put off pregnancy due to illness, work, not having a partner or other personal or medical reasons, but desirous of young healthy eggs to fertilize when motherhood beckons them, consider egg preservation.
February 24, 2010 | Read the story »
Freebirthing; the latest trend in delivering a baby
February 23, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
Unhappy with your last birthing experience at the hospital? Disappointed with the amount of meds pumped into your system? Feel like you lost control of the birth and were at the mercy of the numerous directives from medical personnel being forced upon you without your considerations? Not to mention the colossal medical expense.
February 23, 2010 | Read the story »
Should women take Prometrium to ward off miscarriage?
February 22, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
To sustain a healthy pregnancy, women must maintain healthy levels of progesterone at all times.
As a woman’s body prepares for ovulation, progesterone levels go up. The corpus luteum can stimulate the production of progesterone for about two weeks and if a conception occurs, the pregnancy itself takes over the stimulation of progesterone. With no pregnancy, [...]
February 22, 2010 | Read the story »
How to Get Pregnant – The Top 3 eBooks
February 21, 2010 by C. A. Schwartz · 3 Comments
Shelves at the local Barnes & Noble and Borders stores are overflowing with paperbacks and guides on how to get pregnant but many women are turning to a quicker more convenient way to obtain the same information in the form of eBooks online, sometimes at 1/2 the cost.
February 21, 2010 | Read the story »
Conception difficulties? Maca Root to the rescue
February 21, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
Grown at high altitudes in the mountains of the Andes, native Peruvians, both male and female, have grown and used maca root (lepidium meyenii) for hundreds of years to facilitate conception. With claims of successfully increasing fertility both then and now; the wonder supplement; in its organic state is a root vegetable shaped like a turnip and grows bountifully at 12,000 feet above sea level.
February 21, 2010 | Read the story »
Natural Vitex supplement may reverse female fertility issue
February 20, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
According to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a small study was conducted on 52 patients with luteal phase defects who showed signs of reduced prolactin release. By adding a vitex supplement to their diet their luteal phases normalized, they improved luteal phase progesterone synthesis and increased luteal phase estradiol.
February 20, 2010 | Read the story »
