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Fertility Basics
The fertility essentials you need to know—from charting your monthly cycle to understanding your hormones—for maximizing your chances of getting pregnant faster.

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Are Your Eggs Fresh Enough to Get Pregnant?

They're inside you when you’re born, and gone by menopause. But how much do you really know about...

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The Changing Fertility Seasons

Is there a “right” time of year to make a baby? Obviously, every couple has to decide that...

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Your Menstrual Cycle, Your Fertility

A typical menstrual cycle is 28 days long, with menstruation occurring on day 1.

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The Path to Getting Pregnant

From the blissful simplicity of spontaneous, unprotected sex to the scientific complexity of in vitro fertilization…and everything in...

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Hormones and their Role in Fertility

Most women, until they’re trying to conceive, probably think of hormones—if they think of them at all—as pesky...

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Eggs, Fertility, and Age: How It Works

The life cycle of an egg is complex, but knowing how your eggs age can help you to...

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Male Fertility and the Sperm Saga

For fertilization (and pregnancy) to occur, sperm must travel from Point A—the male reproductive system—to Point B—the female...

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Fertility Vocabulary

You may sometimes feel that you need a medical degree to understand the biology of conception and the...

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Timing is Everything When You're Trying to Conceive

What do women most want to know when they’re trying to conceive?

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The Yellow Body: Important for Menstruation...and Pregnancy

You’ve probably never heard of the corpus luteum (“yellow body” in Latin), but this tissue that’s produced—and discarded—by...

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Your Three Fertility Cycles

You may think you've just got one monthly cycle controlling whether or not you conceive every month, but...

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Boy or Girl: Can You Get Pregnant and Choose Your Baby's Sex?

Heads a girl, tails a boy.  For most couples, the odds of predicting the gender of their child...

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Menstruation and Fertility

Have you ever wondered why women menstruate, and why periods occur approximately once a month? Find out what...

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Fertility and Your "Other" Biological Clock

When women talk about their biological clocks, they’re usually talking about how age affects the ability to have...



Get Pregnant

Boy or Girl: Can You Get Pregnant and Choose Your Baby's Sex?

Heads a girl, tails a boy.  For most couples, the odds of predicting the gender...

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...

Fertility Vocabulary

You may sometimes feel that you need a medical degree to understand the biology of...

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...

Boost Your Fertility

A Three-Month Guide to Getting Pregnant

Your three-month get-ready-to-get-pregnant guide.

How Food Can Impact Your Fertility

Imagine a diet that measures its success by how much weight you gain. Baby weight,...

Can a Vegan Diet Help You Conceive?

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

Fertility Spas

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

Fertility Concerns

Hyperthryroidism

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Blood Clotting Disorders

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Genetic Abnormalities—Congenital Bilateral Absence of the Vas Deferens (CBAVD) (Men)

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Infertility

Pregnancy Envy

You’ve only been trying for a few months, but you’re already starting to get annoyed...

How to Keep Moving Forward When Trying to Conceive

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

How to Choose a Fertility Center

In an effort to attract patients and compete against the more-than 400 fertility centers providing...

Stopping the Fertility Clock With New Techniques

Egg freezing is 
just the beginning. 
New techniques—
some experimental, 
some already here—
are giving women 
more...