Get pregnant naturally with the 'Pregnancy Miracle Book'

Infertility is common problem today and many women from all ages suffer from it. With the advance of the modern medicine, there dozens of solutions and medications that could help you solve many of the health problems that could be causing the infertility. Yet there are many women, for which, the traditional solutions offered by the modern medicine simply doesn't work. After being diagnosed as infertile, women quite often turn to various other untraditional pregnancy methods - from seeing sidekicks to performing various rituals, consuming particular herbs and pretty much everything else you can think of. Just recently, it seems there is a solution to infertility that actually works and is called the Pregnancy Miracle Book. Visit Pregnancy Miracle Presentation The Pregnancy Miracle Book is especially created for women, who are unable to conceive and are unable to receive pregnancy help from traditional medicine. It consists of taking advantage of multiple pregnancy techniques, which are meant not only to improve chances to conceive, but also help improve overall body health. How does the Pregnancy Miracle Book Work? The Miracle Pregnancy Book contains a complete program to help women get pregnant in easy to understand and follow manner. With the Pregnancy Miracle Book, you will take care of the cause for your fertility problems. The program contained in the Pregnancy Miracle Book is far more effective than any traditional infertility treatment practiced today. For example with the most popular infertility drugs, the risks of getting cancer hit the roof and with the modern IVF procedures, multiple pregnancies carry increased risks for your health. This sounds scary even without considering the various health risks for your child – from cerebral paralysis to brain damage. With the Pregnancy Miracle Book, you will explore radically new ways of treating infertility. The book focuses on the various reasons for infertility and how to deal with them to conceive without risking the health of our child. What are some of the reasons for infertility according to Pregnancy Miracle Book? Infertility is directly linked to our lifestyle and this is widely recognized fact today. There are multiple factors, which combined affect ability to conceive in negative manner. Fixing any of these wouldn't help, unless you treat all factors simultaneously and here to help comes the Pregnancy Miracle Book. One of the main factors that affect infertility is our diet – the food we eat actually prevents us from getting pregnant and is also one of the most common reasons for child's diseases and disorders. Although, quite popular, our diet is just one of the factors that affect infertility, so to solve this issue you need to cover all of these. Another main reason for infertility is disrupted internal environment and there are many reasons for this occur. To fix this, you will need to develop an exercise routine that will help you also get healthier. With the Pregnancy Miracle Book you will be able to learn all there is to know about how to treat all factors that affect your ability to conceive and within 30 to 60 days you will be able to give birth to a beautiful child, no matter what the doctors are telling you! Visit Pregnancy Miracle Website Article: 22nd July 2014 www.baystreet.ca Read more about natural fertility at www.prideangel.com

Increase your fertility with Positive Affirmations

Saying positive affirmations will improve your health and well being, which in turn will increase your fertility and chance of getting pregnant. Using positive affirmations is a form of healing based on re-wiring your subconscious mind to new and more positive thinking while allowing the release old negative thinking. During your life you may have taken up negative thinking patterns based mostly on your fears, life uncertainty and discouraging experiences. These negative thoughts are now the cause of your mental and emotional blocks that might prevent you from allowing the process of conception to take place within your body. Positive affirmations are a great way to meditate and to bring a positive outlook back into your life. If you stop for a moment and think about it, you will notice that you already practise affirmations all the time. When you tell others that you are going to do something, you are affirming something that you intent to manifest into your life. In order for you to manifest an idea into reality, you first have to create a thought, then you have to express this thought either verbally or mentally in the form of a sentence or an image and then you have to choose the actions necessary to manifest it. Positive affirmations are meant to support you through the process of conception by helping you to release all the mental blocks that prevent you from truly manifesting your desire to become pregnant and assist you to affirm positive and encouraging thoughts into action. The following show examples of some positive affirmations you can say to increase your fertility: I love and trust myself I accept the gift of life within myself I release fears about age and time I release emotional blocks preventing me conceiving I welcome my time to become a parent Read more positive affirmations here Article: 25th July 2014 www.natural-health-for-fertility.com

Smoking during pregnancy may be linked to ADHD in children

Children born to women who smoked during pregnancy appear to have an increased risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to new research. The new study also hints -- but doesn't prove -- that nicotine-replacement products used during pregnancy, such as patches and gum, could pose the same risk to children. Still, this study suggests that nicotine itself, not just tobacco, may be a hazard during pregnancy. Continue reading below... "We've been lulled into a false sense of security, thinking that if we can just get mothers to stop smoking and onto nicotine replacement, it will protect against any kinds of fetal damage in the developing child. This is a stark injection of reality about how that may not be the case," said Dr. Timothy Wilens, director of the Center for Addiction Medicine and acting chief of child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Researchers have long tried to pinpoint the hazards of smoking during pregnancy. Among other things, lighting up during pregnancy seems to boost the risk of miscarriage, pregnancy complications, premature deliveries, low birth weight and even obesity in the child's life, said study lead author Dr. Jin Liang Zhu, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Aarhus University in Denmark. It's not clear how smoking and nicotine use in mothers may affect the brains of developing fetuses. Zhu said nicotine may cause abnormalities in the brain, while the products of cigarette smoke -- such as carbon monoxide -- could affect the brain, too. It's also possible that other factors are behind the association between smoking in pregnancy and ADHD in children, the study authors suggested. ADHD tends to run in families, and people in families with ADHD are more likely to smoke. So, it's possible that the association seen in this study isn't a direct cause of expectant mothers' smoking, but may be the result of genetics or a shared environment where smoking is present, according to background information in the study. ADHD is a common behavioral disorder in childhood, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include difficulty paying attention, impulsive behavior and problems with sitting still and getting along with others. Previous research has already linked ADHD in children to mothers who smoked during pregnancy, noted Wilens, who was not involved with the study. In the new study, researchers examined the medical records of nearly 85,000 children born in Denmark to mothers who were recruited to be part of the study from 1996 to 2002. Signs of ADHD were present in slightly more than 2,000 children. The numbers were lower among kids of nonsmoking parents (1.8 percent) and in households where mom quit smoking and dad was a nonsmoker (2 percent). The rates of ADHD were highest among kids in families in which both parents smoked -- 4.2 percent. Read more ...

Single mum went to Danish sperm bank for Blonde blue eyed baby

As Jessica McCallin smiles down at her little girl, there is no mistaking the family resemblance. The pair share the same fair hair, blue eyes and broad smile – which makes it even more remarkable that three-year-old Freya was conceived using a sperm donor almost 800 miles away in Denmark and Jessica has absolutely no idea who the father is. Far from being unusual, hers is a decision that increasing numbers of British women are making. Approaching 40, single and with her body clock ticking, Jessica knew time was running out for her to become a mother. So she decided that the answer was to spend £480 on sperm from a Danish donor. “Being a single mother wasn’t what I wanted, hoped for or dreamt of. But not being a mother was unendurable,” says Jessica, 40. With a growing demand from British women for donor fathers and lack of red tape in Scandanavia compared to the UK, sales of Danish sperm are soaring, with the European Sperm Bank, one of the largest in Denmark, reporting a 20% surge in online sales to the UK in the last year. For Jessica the decision made perfect sense. “I chose to use a Danish donor because I knew the characteristics of the child would be similar to mine. People always ask me if I’m Swedish and a lot of the research I read said it can help if the child looks as much like you as possible. I know my family originates from the north of England, which was once conquered by the Norsemen, so it’s reasonable to assume I have Scandinavian ancestry. The Viking aspect had a certain appeal.” Coupled with the fact that there simply aren’t enough donors in the UK to meet demand, or the same level of clinical infrastructure, it is little wonder that Danish sperm now accounts for a third of the total used in the UK. Sperm, along with beer and Lego, has become one of Denmark’s top exports and Freya could soon have more in common with her peers than previously might have been expected. “With more and more women seeking Danish sperm, there’s going to be lots of children with Danish ancestry about,” says Jessica. “I think it’s something that’s going to become reasonably common and also more socially acceptable.” Jessica, who, by coincidence, lives in Denmark Hill, South London, had always wanted children. But it wasn’t until she hit her 30s that she realised that, as a single woman, her options for carrying a baby were limited. “I didn’t really think about starting a family in my 20s, but when I got to 32 I knew I wanted to do it,” she says. “There were no significant men in my life – my most serious relationship was in my 20s and we did talk about children but that all fell apart when I was 28. I have some gay friends who always said if no one came along we could have a child together, but for various reasons they weren’t quite ready when I was.” As her 35th birthday came and went, Jessica found herself reading articles about female fertility dropping after that age. It was then that she began researching the possibility of using donor sperm and discussed the idea with family and friends. “It was a Danish friend who suggested I go to Denmark. I had overwhelming support from family and friends and I was quite surprised about that,” says Jessica, a writer. “Everyone was extremely supportive with the exception of one friend who felt children need fathers – the others all thought I was worrying too much about the absence of a father.” It wasn’t just that playing on Jessica’s mind, however. She knew that if she used a Danish donor then her baby would never even know his name. Sperm donors in Denmark have a legal right to remain anonymous and can’t be traced, whereas in the UK a law was passed in 2005 saying a donor may be contacted by their offspring when they turn 18. The change sent the number of donors plummeting. “It was the complete black hole in a child’s life about never knowing the name of the father that worried me,” says Jessica. “But I came to the conclusion that knowing the name of the donor wouldn’t necessarily help because I had read that it can be a disappointment for donor children who do trace and meet their fathers because they’ve built up an image in their mind then the man turns about to be nothing like the person they expected, so they feel let down.” Despite her concerns, Jessica decided the time was right to become a mother. “I’ve always pretty much been single and I’ve never lived with anyone. It was normal for me. I was ready to have a baby and didn’t mind doing it on my own.” So, in June 2010, as a 36th birthday present to herself, Jessica travelled to Copenhagen to be inseminated with sperm from an anonymous donor. She says: “Although friends and family offered to come with me, I went on my own because when you track your ovulation you only know the “right” time at the last minute, so there wasn’t much notice. “The process was incredibly straightforward. I contacted the clinic, they sent me a questionnaire and conducted a phone interview to be sure I knew what I was doing and had thought it through and that was it. I paid £480 for the sperm and it cost around £1,000 in total for my two-day stay including travel. I was confident I’d considered enough of the issues and was very excited.” Although she had access to her donor’s profile, Jessica chose not to see it. She says: “I know nothing about him other than he’s a young Danish man screened for major genetic diseases and has fast swimming sperm. The clinics have basic information about the donors like their job but I didn’t ask for this because I don’t feel that it tells you anything meaningful about a person. With everyone in my family being tall, fair and with blue or green eyes, I just asked for a donor with a similar profile.” Knowing the chances were that insemination wouldn’t work the first time, Jessica had prepared herself for several trips to Denmark – trips she never needed to make. “I know it sounds silly but I just knew the insemination had worked the afternoon after they had done it. I wasn’t surprised when the pregnancy test was positive and I was absolutely delighted.” Jessica’s excitement was shared by her mother, father, brother and three younger sisters who all helped out during the pregnancy. Read more...

Fertility clinic used 'wrong sperm' in fertility treatment

A clinic used sperm from the wrong donor in fertility treatment, a report by the regulator says. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) warned clinics "too many" mistakes were being made. Its report showed one in every 100 women treated had experienced some form of "adverse incident", although most would not have affected their odds of having a baby. The regulator has called on clinics to eradicate "avoidable errors". There were 1,679 adverse incidents in fertility clinics in the UK between 2010 and 2012. Three of them were in the most serious - or grade-A - category. In one case a woman was having fertility treatment using donated sperm. She wanted a child who would be genetically related to an elder sibling, but sperm from the wrong donor was used. No further details have been released to protect the family's anonymity. A separate grade-A case involved embryos being contaminated, probably with sperm. And in the third incident, sperm were removed from storage too soon. 'Highest quality' There were 714 grade-B incidents, which include the loss of embryos or equipment malfunctions affecting embryo quality. There were 815 grade-C errors, such as eggs left unusable or women's ovaries being "over-stimulated" to produce eggs. HFEA chairwoman Sally Cheshire, said "We are committed to ensuring that clinics provide the safest and highest quality service to their patients. "These results show that, in the main, clinics are doing a good job of minimising the number of serious errors, and this should be welcomed. "However, there remain too many grade-C mistakes, such as breaches of confidentiality. "As patients have often told us, these mistakes may be less serious at first glance but they can still be very upsetting." "Clinics can and should be eradicating these sorts of avoidable errors, which will go a long way towards reducing patient distress and improving the overall experience of IVF treatment." Article: 9th July 2014 www.bbc.co.uk

Pride Angel Journey - A Roadside Insemination

"Here, this'll do..." Sal braked sharply and backed up a short farm track almost hidden between the hedgerows. I glanced out of the back window: an audience of a dozen sheep behind an iron gate didn't seem to pose too much of a problem. First things first: milky. Luna couldn't go more than what seemed like ten minutes or so without complaining of being on the verge of dehydration. I got her out of the car seat and fed her whilst Sal scuffled around on the back seat trying to find a way of getting her pelvis propped up higher than her bottom. A discreet way (given the fact that half way into a farmer's field or not, we were still parked on the edge of a well-used narrow country lane). The thing is, when your sperm donor lives a 90-minute drive away, and after a visit to the grandparents, you happen to be passing - on ovulation day - it's too good an opportunity to miss. Luna was two and a half months old and this baby thing had been pretty straightforward so far. Time for another. So we called in for a cup of tea and a donation. It was the second time Luna's sperm donor had held her. We sat drinking tea, eating fancy turnip crisps and discussing the weather, while he held her, a cuddly bundle of his own genes...and then passed her back. And once again I silently acknowledged how much, in that little sample pot, he had given us. And an hour later, there we were: backed up against the farmer's field with a baby, a syringe and another little sample pot. We had to do it while it was still warm. So after waiting for a couple of cyclists to pass, we got on and did it: a roadside insemination. And when we set off again I wondered. I wondered three things. One: had we been seen? Two: when would Luna start to cry for milky again? And three: a potential due date before Luna's first birthday - what on earth were we thinking? Article: by Lindsey, West Yorkshire 5th June 2014

Contraceptive pill could 'age' a woman's fertility

Going on the pill could damage a woman’s future fertility - at least temporarily, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that the powerful hormones can ‘age’ the reproductive system, reducing the production of eggs to levels seen in older women, months after coming off the contraceptive. While scientists do not think the phenomenon is permanent, they advise that a woman’s ‘biological clock’ should be measured three months after finishing taking the pill. The link emerged in a study of 833 women between the ages of 19 and 46 years old, who were attending a fertility clinic. Experts measured anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and antral follicles (AFC) which are indicators of ‘ovarian reserve’ or fertility. Levels of AMH and AFC were 19 per cent and 16 per cent lower in pill users. In addition, between 19 per cent and 52 per cent less eggs were produced by the women taking part in the study, with the greatest reductions seen in those under 30. Dr Kathrine Birch Petersen, of Copenhagen University Hospital, said: ‘We expected to find an effect of the pill. But during the project we were surprised at the quantified effect on ovarian reserve parameters as defined by anti-Mullerian hormone, antral follicle count and ovarian volume.’ More...Sperm donations from men in their 40s are more likely to result in pregnancy, study finds Too much sleep in middle age is as bad for you as too little: More than eight hours 'can damage brain power' Even after statistical adjustment for age, BMI, smoking and maternal age at menopause, AMH was still up to 30 per cent lower and AFC up to 20 per cent lower in pill users. Dr Birch Petersen presented her results at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Munich and said that they suggest measurements of AMH and AFC should be monitored in those taking the pill. She said: ‘We do not believe the pill changes the ovaries in any permanent way. 'But we still need to know more about the recovery phase after women stop the pill. ‘The pill is unlikely to change the basal ovarian biology of egg depletion - but it certainly changes the appearance of the ovaries and the secretion of AMH.’ Dr Birch Petersen said women in the pre-conceptional care programme in Copenhagen who have been on the pill ‘are now advised their ovaries may look old with small volume, a few small antral follicles and low levels of AMH'. But she said this may not necessarily reflect their future fertility status. In order to have a more precise measurement of the biological clock’s status and to reassure the pill user about her fertility potential, ovarian reserve assessment – the capacity of the ovary to provide egg cells that are capable of fertilisation - might be repeated three months after stopping the pill. She said that the pill could mask a severely diminished ovarian reserve and this is important to recognise. Most women are able to become pregnant six months after stopping the pill. Article: 3rd July 2014 www.dailymail.co.uk