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Alternative Medicine
From Traditional Chinese Medicine to massage, various types of alternative therapies might help your fertility journey move a little more smoothly.

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Fertility Sites

Pregnancy-seekers have long trekked to fertility shrines and landmarks for some “divine” conception help. These days, more couples...

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Fertility Spas

More and more spas these days are offering a lot more than massages and mud baths. Many are...

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Sex by the Stars: Astrology for Conception

You’ve been tracking your cycle to see when you’re most fertile, but here’s another way to schedule your...

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Rubbed the Right Way: Fertility Massage

For couples looking for an edge in dealing with fertility—or just a way to relax while “trying”—there are...

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The Road Less Traveled: Alternative Fertility Treatments

Can alternative medicine help you get pregnant?

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Asian Bodywork for Fertility

These three types of Asian bodywork techniques—chi nei tsang, shiatsu, and tui na—aim to bring the body into...

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Feng Shui For Fertility

Ever wonder if your home might be affecting your chances for conception?  An ancient Chinese art offers simple...

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Asian Fertility Wisdom: Cycling Chinese Style

Think you know everything about your menstrual cycle? Take a look from another perspective. A leading acupuncturist and...



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...

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...

Want to Get Pregnant? Try These Tests at Home

There’s a brave new world of DIY tests and gadgets to help baby-making go a...

Try Relaxing With These Couples Massage Techniques

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

Boost Your Fertility

5 Yogurts To Sink Your Spoon Into

A 2006 Harvard study found that women who consume whole-milk dairy (like full-fat yogurt, cottage...

7 Exercises to Prepare Your Body For Pregnancy

Get a fit pre-pregnancy body that will benefit you throughout your nine months, childbirth, and...

The Fertility Workout: Getting the Right Amount

Too little isn’t good for your health, but women have long been told that...

Asian Fertility Wisdom: Cycling Chinese Style

Think you know everything about your menstrual cycle? Take a look from another perspective. A...

Fertility Concerns

Reversing Vasectomy, Restoring Male Fertility

It might have seemed like a good idea at the time...but if the man in...

6 Emotions He May Not Have Told You About

Women don’t have a lock on being upset about an infertility diagnosis. Men hurt, too...

Depression

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Testosterone (Low)

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Infertility

How to Save Money on Fertility Drugs

The cost of fertility medications can force many couples to question whether they can continue...

How to Keep Moving Forward When Trying to Conceive

Couples on the road to parenthood can avoid burnout by anticipating detours in advance and...

Tips for Choosing an Egg Donor

A growing number of women—especially those over age 40, and women who have been unsuccessful...

Natural Cycle IVF: The Drug-Free Fertility Treatment

Sounds like a contradiction, but there actually is a “natural” version of the high-tech fertility...