The Do's Follow these helpful hints to ensure your spouse a healthy pregnancy: • Get all her essential vitamins and minerals every day. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, women need a lot more iron when pregnant. A...

Fertility in women peak in their early twenties, when conception during any cycle is at it's highest. When they hit their thirties, the probability of conceiving decreases, taking longer to conceive. The risk of miscarriage, genetic abnormalities and ot...

I just had my first child and I wish that I could have found a program to help me control my weight gain. I did well in the first and second trimester but after that there was no stopping me. I wanted french fries and ice cream and I wanted nothing to do ...

Generation Y are the generation of adults having their first babies today: born between 1976 and 1994 they are comfortable with emails, blogs & pod-casts, have information at their fingertips and often go without face-to-face information (in particular pr...

Understanding ovulation, the release of the egg from one of the two ovaries, is absolutely crucial to maximizing your chances of conceiving. Successfully predicting the time of ovulation allows you to time sexual intercourse appropriately, which will ...

Studies show that fetuses can hear and react to sound from as early as 20 weeks and begin active listening by the 24th week. Researcher Michele Clements found that playing a lullaby, or calming mus...

I just had my first child and I wish that I could have found a program to help me control my weight gain. I did well in the first and second trimester but after that there was no stopping me. I wanted french fries and ice cream and I wanted nothing to do ...

The nine long months of waiting have finally come to and end and you’ve brought home your beautiful new baby. You’ve also noticed however, that baby brought with him or her extra pounds and flabby areas that were never there before. You can’t risk d...

Are you ready to have a baby? Here are 11 things that you should do to increase fertility before you decide to conceive. 1. Stop using birth control. You need to give your body a break. Depending on the type of birth control you use, it may ta...

Most due dads, or fathers-to-be, will politely page through the pregnancy books their wives give them and throw them in a drawer. Dads like to learn on the job. For an alternate approach, you can check out Due Dads, The Man's Survival Guide to Pregnancy. ...

Having a baby should be the most natural thing in the world, but for some couples it becomes almost a nightmare when the longed for pregnancy just doesn?t happen. For these people the inability to achieve this ultimate desire in life is a devastating e...

A question many home sellers might be asking themselves these days is what sort of renovations, if any are financially safe in a cooling housing market. In recent years up-scale improvements were on the rise including recessed lighting, renovated or a...

When attempting to conceive a child, infertility issues are not always something that couples consider. However, around 10 to 15 percent of couples in the United States face infertility issues. Among these issues is poor quality egg production by the fema...

Welcome to motherhood. It is a sense of pride and privilege for you to have a bundle of joy in your arms. Those nine months are over, but here begins a new journey for you and your baby. If it is your first time, make sure you have all your questions answ...

Being pregnant is the prerogative of a lady and you must think yourself privileged to the beautiful gift you are about to receive. If it is your first time, apprehensions prevail every moment, but if you have already delivered a baby then you must be at e...