Archive for September, 2006
Infertility is typically described as one year of repeated intercourse without contraception that does not result in pregnancy. Numerous studies have shown that from sixty-five to ninety percent of all couples who conceive suddenly will do so within the first year of attempting and ninety to ninety-five percent will attain pregnancy within the first two [...]
Now that you know you’re pregnant, congratulations! You are now part of the ultimate miracle of life. Although pregnancy is primarily what sustains the human race, not everyone can take part in this magical phenomenon. So consider yourself truly lucky and blessed once you find out that you are expecting.
Pregnancy Basics
Pregnancy starts when sperm fertilizes [...]
Pregnancy brings about a lot of changes in the body. The signs of being pregnant are essentially the same yet, ironically, vary from woman to woman. Also, there are women who may experience some symptoms within a few days after conception, while others begin to experience and take notice of these signs a few weeks [...]
Some people, in modern times, have delayed marriage and childbearing until at a later age than was traditionally the norm. Because of this, a lot of couples find it hard to get pregnant when they finally decide to. Studies show that fertility decreases with age and so does the rate of intercourse, while the rates [...]
There are a lot of pregnancy test kits available nowadays, and though all of them have the same use (which is to determine whether or not one is pregnant), they vary in the level of human chorionic gonadotropin they detect in the urine. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone which the body produces only [...]
Nowadays, it’s common knowledge that folic acid is essential to a healthy pregnancy, but do you know why? This vitamin from the group of B vitamins is actually responsible for avoiding such problems as spina bifida (failure of the spine to fuse properly, leaving the spinal cord exposed), serious heart problems and other deformities in [...]
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So, you have recently found out you are pregnant? Congratulations. Now you really have to start taking care of yourself and your new baby to be. In doing so, it all starts with taking prenatal vitamins. We have all heard that taking prenatal vitamins is important, but the question is, what type of vitamins are [...]