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• Preconception Readiness
  Take Our Interactive Quiz and Find Out If You're Ready
• Preconception Visit Checklist
  Know What the Doctor Will Ask
• Waiting Patiently for Baby
  Short Stories About Trying to Conceive
• Learning the Lingo
  Learn the Preconception Lingo
• From Clomid to Twins
  Short Stories About Trying to Conceive
• Preconception Visits
  Working with Your Doctor for a Healthy Conception
• Help Yourself
  6 Ways to Help Improve Female Fertility
• Conceiving After Contraception
  Can Birth Control Affect Your Fertility?
• A Positive Preconception
  Battling Negative Thinking While Trying to Conceive
• Ready, Set, Conceive!
  Preconception Planning for a Healthy Pregnancy

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• Upping the Odds of Pregnancy
  Doing Your Best to Conceive
• Folic Acid During Preconception
  A Vital Role in Healthy Pregnancies
• To My Child
  
• I Will Never Forget
  The Struggle That Brought Joy
• Preconception Book Review
  Expecting Miracles: On the Path of Hope from Infertility to Parenthood
• Conceiving After Contraception Part Two
  Birth Control and Your Fertility
• Trying to Conceive with Diagnosis of PCOS
  Short Stories About Trying to Conceive
• Making Sense of PCOS
  Answers to Common Questions About Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Preconception Top 10
  Tips for a Healthy Conception
• Preconception Health Check
  Preventive Medicine Before You Conceive
• I Think I Can
  Mental Health and Conception
• Prenatal Blood Testing
  The Facts on Blood Tests During Pregnancy
• Beyond Blood Tests and Hormone Levels
  What to Expect From Invasive Infertility Diagnosis and Treatment
• Never Say Never to Pregnancy
  Planning Pregnancy with a Chronic Health Condition
• Folic Acid Supplements
  The Benefits of Folic Acid for Preconception and Pregnancy
• Crueler Than Hope
  Handling the Disappointments of Trying to Conceive
• The Skinny on Weight While Trying to Conceive
  Conception for the Underweight
• Healthy Eating During Preconception
  Good Nutrition While You're Trying to Conceive
• Too Young to Be Pregnant?
  Knowing When It's the Right Time to Have a Baby
• Gender Prediction Kits
  The Pros and Cons of Gender Prediction Kits
• Conception and the Caffeine Connection
  Is Your Daily Habit Hurting Your Chances of Conceiving?
• Preconception Humor
  
• Coping with Preconception Worries
  Strategies for Coping Until You Test
• Will YOU Have My Baby?
  A Surrogacy Q&A with Sharon LaMothe
• Secondary Infertility
  Could Secondary Infertility Happen to You?
• Holiday Preconception Prep
  Tips for Avoiding the Top 3 Seasonal Fertility Traps
• The Surrogacy Search
  Starting Out
• Babies Later in Life
  Pregnancy at 35 and Older
• Just a Game
  Learning Not to Keep Score
• Taking it Easy (When Trying to Conceive)
  
• Preconception Weight-loss Planning
  Easy Ways to Boost Health and Increase Fertility
• TESE and MESA
  Hope for Men Battling Infertility
• Myths and Truths of Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
  Trying Again Answers Grieving Parents' Questions About Loss
• Annoucning Pregnancy
  Creative Ways to Announce a Pregnancy
• NOT According to Plan
  Why Irregularity Happens and What You Can Do to Help
• Assisted Sex Selection Part Two
  Proven Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender
• Preggie Pops and the OV Watch
  Trista's Top 3 Product Picks
• Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender
  Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl
• Tips to Safeguard Your Fertility
  6 Simple Steps for Preventing Fertility Problems
• Springing into Pregnancy
  5 Ways to Spring into a Healthy Pregnancy
• Antisperm Antibodies
  Myths, Truths and Treatments of Sperm Allergies
• A Mother's Day Quiz
  You Know You're A Mother When...
• Two Angels and Two Miracles
  Short Stories About Pregnancy
• Transracial Adoption
  Parent's Wish List and Child's Bill of Rights
• Physician or Friend
  Can Your Doctor Be Both?
• Choosing Assisted Reproduction
  Social Emotional and Ethical Considerations
• Strong Enough
  One Woman's Brush with Surrogacy
• A Proactive Pregnancy
  How a Proactive Attitude and Actions Can Influence Pregnancy
• Nancy O'Dell
  A Star Committed to Babies
• Cindy Margolis
  Battling Infertility, Redefining Success
• Praying for Snow, Aunt Eleonore and a Healthy Son
  Spirituality and Adoption
• Acupuncture and Infertility
  The Basics of Acupuncture for Fertility
• Home Pregnancy Test Sensitivity Comparison Table
  Which Pregnancy Tests Are the Most Sensitive
• Pregnant with Twins or More
  The Facts on Twin Pregnancies
• Where Have You Been Trying To Conceive?
  
• Baby Battles
  When He Doesn't Want a Child and You Do
• A Little Conception Planning Goes a Long Way
  12 Things to Think About When Trying to Conceive
• Where Do I Start?
  Adoption Information for Beginners
• Cold Medications and Conception
  Can Treating Your Cold Affect Early Pregnancy or Conception?
• Off the Beaten Path
  A Different Road to Motherhood
• They're Too What?
  One Man Shares His Reaction to a Diagnosis of Varicoceles
• Parents of Twins Coalition
  A Hollywood Phenomenon?
• From Mood Swings to Baby Swings
  Clinical Depression and Conception
• Vasectomy Reversal
  Rebuilding the Bridge to Conception
• At Your Cervix
  A Lifetime of Cervical Health
• Assisted Sex Selection
  Proven Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender
• Clomid Quick Facts
  Everything You Need to Know
• Low-tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender Part Two
  Using the Shettles Method or Whelan Method to Conceive a Boy or Girl
• A Good Egg or Sperm
  In Search of the Perfect Donor
• Motherhood and Mental Health
  Finding a Balance Between Mental Health Issues and Parenthood
• Conception Tools of the Trade
  3 Things Hopeful Moms Can't Live Without
• Talking About Infertility
  Telling Family and Friends
• Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
  Ensuring Your Baby's Health
• No More Periods
  Premature Ovarian Failure
• How Diet Affects PCOS
  Your Fertility May Benefit from Low-carb Eating
• The Preconception Pressure Cooker
  When Family Interferes in Your Reproductive Life
• Worried About Conceiving?
  Simple Changes Can Increase Your Chances of Conception
• Stressed Out?
  Couples Spa Top 10
• My Daughter Is in China
  Adopting After Infertility
• Preventing Birth Defects
  10 Ways to Prepare Your Body for Pregnancy
• Am I Expecting Twins?
  Early Signs That Twins May Be on the Way
• The Crystal Ball for Parents-To-Be
  Don't You Dare Have Kids Until You Read This!
• Diabetes and Conception
  Healthy Conception for Diabetics Is All in the Planning
• Go the Distance
  Exploring International Adoption
• Uterine Factors
  How Abnormalities of the Uterus Contribute to Infertility
• To Pick and Choose
  Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
• Seeds of Hope
  Lubrication for Conception
• Racial Reactions
  When Your Family Crosses Color Lines
• Who's Who in the Infertility World?
  An Infertility Starting Lineup
• Donor Decisions
  Considering Donor Egg & Sperm
• New Year's Beauty
  Take Time for You This Year!
• Quick Conception
  Top Tips When You're Trying to Conceive
• Infertility Sniglets
  Hilarious, Made-up Terminology

• Could breastfeeding my toddler be preventing pregnancy even though I am probably ovulating?
• Is it safe to have a pap smear during pregnancy?
• Does it matter how many times you have intercourse when you are trying to conceive?
• Could I get pregnant and still have a period?
• I get my period every 27-32 days. Is that considered irregular?
• What should a man do to increase his fertility (diet, health, etc.)?
• Can a gynecologist tell whether you're ovulating from performing an ultrasound scan only? How reliable is this?
• Do you think my past stillbirth is keeping me from conceiving?
• Do you think my stillbirth has anything to do with the fact that I'm having trouble conceiving?
• My wife, 40, and I, 42, have been trying to conceive. She suggests that it is harder the second time around. How can this be?

more expert q&a

• My basal body temperature hasn't risen in two months. What does that mean?
• What can I do to increase my chances of getting pregnant?
• Is there any way to increase my chance of having a baby boy?
• Does a past history of terminating a pregnancy affect your current ability to become pregnant/does it cause infertility? If so, how?
• If I am trying to conceive, should I limit the amount of exercise I do? Is running OK to continue while trying to conceive?
• My periods are shorter now that I've gotten off the pill. Is this any reflection of my fertility?
• How will I be able to tell when I am ovulating?