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 »
Examining the importance of banking ‘Cord Blood Stem Cells’
February 18, 2010 by Cindy Ferda · Leave a Comment
The decision to bank cord blood is a hot topic these days. Cord blood contains stem cells that are the building blocks of our blood and immune system. Drawn from the umbilical cord at the time of childbirth it is becoming more practiced as expectant parents are being exposed to information on the subject via [...]
February 18, 2010 | Read the story »
Top five questions to ask during your 20-week ultrasound to detect Congenital Heart Defects
February 15, 2010 by Jasmine Jafferali · Leave a Comment
According to the American Heart Association,(AHA) Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) are America’s #1 birth defect. Nearly one of every 125 babies is born with a CHD (almost 1% of all children born each year!). Here are more facts and stats from the AHA.
February 15, 2010 | Read the story »
