Conception

A simple way to know our menstrual cycles is to track our basal temperature, through which analysis we will know when we have ovulated and if a pregnancy has occurred or, on the contrary, menstruation is about to appear. Although we could use any type of thermometer that we have at home, in the market we have thermometers specially designed for this purpose: basal thermometers.

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If pregnancy planning is necessary for any woman, for women with chronic diseases who want to achieve pregnancy it must be much more. It is advisable to consult with the doctor to give us the necessary advice for our particular case. And there may be very different cases of women with diabetes, asthma, heart problems, epilepsy or other chronic diseases for which the approval of the doctor should be agreed before achieving pregnancy, being sure that the disease is "under control" and It will not adversely affect the development of pregnancy.

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Yesterday I saw this news on television that was offered as a scientific curiosity. The music has probably accompanied many natural conceptions, but what had not been done so far is to put music to the in vitro fertilization process. And with surprising results. According to a study by the Institut Marquès de Barcelona, ​​musical vibrations increase the chances that the sperm fertilizes the egg in the laboratory by up to 4.8%.

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There are many couples who achieve pregnancy at first, but it is not the most common. Getting a pregnancy is not as easy as it seems, especially if we consider that in each relationship there is a 25 percent chance of conceiving. From the moment a couple decides to have children, it is normal for several months to pass until they get it.

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There are many couples with infertility problems that have not been successful after undergoing assisted reproduction techniques. But when they thought everything was lost ... zas! pregnancy comes naturally and they manage to be parents against all odds. It is a great frustration to have gone through one or more assisted reproduction treatments and not get pregnant.

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Infertility is a disorder that affects 15% of couples of reproductive age, a phenomenon that has been increasing in recent years. Their causes are varied, including the increasingly advanced age of becoming parents. Sometimes the problem is underestimated, but it is a real suffering for couples who want with all their desires to be parents and do not get it.

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Compared even to those who are overweight, very thin women would be less likely to get pregnant, according to a study conducted in the United States with women undergoing in vitro fertilization. On some occasion we have talked about how obesity makes conception difficult, both in assisted reproduction processes and in natural ones.

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There are many parents who would like to be able to choose the sex of the baby and many who are looking for ways to achieve it with methods as debatable (and in my opinion as unscientific) as the Chinese table or the Mayan table. Other parents decide to try to achieve it with other methods with more scientific basis or, at least, with a little logic behind, being one of them that makes the sex of the baby depend on the diet that the mother follows during pregnancy.

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Many women get pregnant relatively quickly from the first child, but when looking for another baby things are not so easy. When the second child takes a long time to arrive, it is a matter of great concern, especially since they usually have the same expectations as in the previous pregnancy. You know that "if the first time I have been so soon, now will be the same."

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We want to have a baby, and I want to know what the fertile days are to get pregnant. It is not always easy to achieve pregnancy, and it is that of the woman's cycle, only a few days her body is ready to conceive. Fertility is the ability to have offspring, and results from the interaction of numerous factors, primarily biological.

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Stress affects many crucial moments of our life, and of course it also affects couples who wish to have children and decide to undergo fertility treatments. To the burden of not being able to conceive in a natural way, there is the concern of whether I will achieve it through assisted reproduction.

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Men produce millions of sperm every day, all prepared for a great race to fertilization. It may be surprising to think that so many gametes are spent for a single egg that will receive them, but this huge production is necessary to ensure that at least one of them exceeds the barriers of the dangerous race that awaits them.

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One of the issues that arouses most interest in pregnancy is whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. Here we bring you a Chinese table to print that makes predictions about the sex of the baby, to take wherever you want and do the curious test with friends and family. Surely there are results for all tastes, those who were right with them and those who did not.

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On many occasions the desire to achieve pregnancy or a misconception about how easy it is to conceive can lead some couples to despair ahead of time. But when is it advisable to consult the specialist if pregnancy is not achieved? If the woman does not get pregnant in a short time, it does not mean she has a problem.

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There are frequent recommendations to future mothers about the food they should take when looking for a baby, but of course, the man's diet is also important to achieve pregnancy. The diet of the man who is thinking of becoming a father must be balanced, composed of varied foods, low in saturated fat and rich in antioxidants.

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Knowing the blood group our baby will have is not as simple as knowing the parent groups. Usually a blood test should be performed to determine what blood group we have, however you cannot know with a simple analysis the complete genotype of the sample owner, that is, we do not know what genes we have exactly and there are three types or variants of the gene that determines the blood group.

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Contraception methods are varied and widely used, but if the time has come for the couple to consider having a baby, what would be the ideal time to stop using contraceptives? Well, the answer will depend on the contraceptive method being used. For many of them, the "barrier" and natural, there is no term, since they do not prevent pregnancy once they are stopped being used.

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According to a study by the American brand First Reponse, specializing in products such as fertility and pregnancy tests, you have to make love an average of 104 times to conceive a child. This curious investigation followed up on 3,000 women who were wishing to get pregnant and calculated the average time and number of sexual relations they had until they got it.

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