We hope that the Easter bunny came to your home today and we wish all of you who are trying for your own little chick much luck and happiness on your journey.
Getting pregnant may be easy for some although for others it may mean a little planning and a little lifestyle change. If you’re planning to get pregnant, or you have been trying to get pregnant for some time now and you are not having any success, you may possibly need some tips about fertility and pregnancy.
If you have been trying and planning to get pregnant, you’ll need to prepare your body and understand your fertility to help you facilitate the process. One important thing to keep in mind when planning to get pregnant is to understand when you ovulate or when you’re most fertile – as this signifies your chances of getting pregnant easily.
For tips and techniques to get pregnant easily, you might find these helpful.
1) Know when to conceive: If you have a regular 28-day menstrual cycle, count fourteen days after your first day of menstruation and mark that as your fertile period. If you want to increase your chances of getting pregnant, make sure you inseminate on those fertile times. Ovulation tests will help to detect the best days around your ‘fertile window’.
2) Lie still: One additional helpful detail around this issue. – Spend a few minutes lying after insemination or support your buttocks with a pillow to help give time for the sperm to swim to its destination.
3) Check if you’re not killing the sperm: Some artificial lubricants, vaginal sprays and douches may alter the pH level in the vagina that may lead to infection or may wash the mucus that helps transport the sperm, or may kill the sperm before even reaching its destination. Saliva as well can be harmful for the sperm, so make a healthy environment for the sperm as possible if you’re planning to get pregnant.
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Women are prepared to pay up to £50,000 on IVF to have a baby
Women are prepared to pay up to £50,000 to realise their dreams of motherhood, a study has found.
Most would take on extra work, sell possessions and sacrifice pensions to fund fertility treatment if they had difficulty conceiving. And they would be willing to spend an average of £15,000 on IVF – with one in ten prepared to shell out as much as £50,000. One in five would even consider moving house if it meant better fertility treatment on the NHS.
More than 90 per cent said they would cut back on holidays, eating out, clothes and beauty products to pay for treatment. And it is the grandparents-to-be who they are increasingly turning to for financial help, with 30 per cent of women having treatments asking their parents or other family members for money, up from 14 per cent last year. Three quarters of women think the cost in the UK is too expensive, 30 per cent said they would look at going abroad for treatment. In Hungary a single cycle costs £1,464.
The poll of more than 2,000 women aged 30 to 45, carried out by Red magazine, found that more than half of those questioned had tried to conceive – and 39 per cent had encountered problems.
The Red Annual National Fertility Report also revealed that one in ten women who struggled to conceive had undergone some sort of fertility treatment, spending an average of £8,678.
Nearly 45,000 cycles of IVF are performed in Britain each year. In the private sector, each one can cost more than £5,000. The survey found 95 per cent of women thought the differences in NHS IVF provision, depending on where you lived, was unfair with 22 per cent saying they would move house or consider moving to get better IVF treatment for free.
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Most would take on extra work, sell possessions and sacrifice pensions to fund fertility treatment if they had difficulty conceiving. And they would be willing to spend an average of £15,000 on IVF – with one in ten prepared to shell out as much as £50,000. One in five would even consider moving house if it meant better fertility treatment on the NHS.
More than 90 per cent said they would cut back on holidays, eating out, clothes and beauty products to pay for treatment. And it is the grandparents-to-be who they are increasingly turning to for financial help, with 30 per cent of women having treatments asking their parents or other family members for money, up from 14 per cent last year. Three quarters of women think the cost in the UK is too expensive, 30 per cent said they would look at going abroad for treatment. In Hungary a single cycle costs £1,464.
The poll of more than 2,000 women aged 30 to 45, carried out by Red magazine, found that more than half of those questioned had tried to conceive – and 39 per cent had encountered problems.
The Red Annual National Fertility Report also revealed that one in ten women who struggled to conceive had undergone some sort of fertility treatment, spending an average of £8,678.
Nearly 45,000 cycles of IVF are performed in Britain each year. In the private sector, each one can cost more than £5,000. The survey found 95 per cent of women thought the differences in NHS IVF provision, depending on where you lived, was unfair with 22 per cent saying they would move house or consider moving to get better IVF treatment for free.
To read more go to http://bit.ly/bNvbVV
Friday, 13 August 2010
Stress DOES reduce your chances of getting pregnant
High stress levels can damage a woman's chances of getting pregnant, researchers warn. Those who are anxious are 12 per cent less likely to conceive during their fertile time than those who stay calm. It is the first proof that stress makes it less likely a woman will fall pregnant, despite long-standing anecdotal evidence that being relaxed can improve the chances.
Although the fall in success rates appears small, experts claim it can make a big difference to older women trying to have a baby when their fertility is naturally declining because of age.
In a study at Oxford University and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, blood levels of a marker for a stress hormone called alphaamylase were consistently higher in women who had trouble conceiving.
Dr Cecilia Pyper, from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University, said: 'This is the first study to find that a biological measure of stress is associated with a woman's chances of becoming pregnant-that month.
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Although the fall in success rates appears small, experts claim it can make a big difference to older women trying to have a baby when their fertility is naturally declining because of age.
In a study at Oxford University and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, blood levels of a marker for a stress hormone called alphaamylase were consistently higher in women who had trouble conceiving.
Dr Cecilia Pyper, from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University, said: 'This is the first study to find that a biological measure of stress is associated with a woman's chances of becoming pregnant-that month.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Oldest UK women to have IVF cancels treatment
A 59 year-old woman has backed out of IVF (in vitro fertilisation) treatment at the last minute, as she feels the risks at her age are too great. Susan Tollefsen said she was worried after she nearly died following ill-effects from her previous IVF-enabled birth.
'We've basically decided the risks are too great and I'm too old. My advice to older women wanting children is don't risk it', said Mrs Tollefsen, a retired teacher.
Mrs Tollefsen already has a daughter, Freya, conceived through IVF when she was 57. However, she had to travel to a Russian clinic for IVF using a donor egg after being refused treatment in the UK because of her age. A burst ulcer in her stomach after the birth nearly killed her.
'We want a sibling for Freya for when we are not around but we had to seriously reconsider it. The doctors didn't have any problems treating me but I know there are huge risks. I wish I was 35 again but I'm not - and I've got to realise that, however hard it is. I had hoped to set a precedent for older women but that's not going to happen.'
Peter Bowen-Simpkins, medical director of the London Women's Clinic in Harley Street, said: 'I would very strongly agree with the view that in general women over 50 should not have IVF treatments. While in some cases there are compelling reasons, I think it is unlikely we will see anyone else of 59 attempting IVF, and there are a lot of medical reasons they shouldn't.'
Michaela Aston of the pro-life charity Life, which offers counselling for women considering abortion and fertility treatment, said offering IVF to post-menopausal women was a deeply worrying development. 'Women of this age do not conceive naturally for a reason, we should be guided by Mother Nature on this.'
To read more go to http://bit.ly/aWXhGI
'We've basically decided the risks are too great and I'm too old. My advice to older women wanting children is don't risk it', said Mrs Tollefsen, a retired teacher.
Mrs Tollefsen already has a daughter, Freya, conceived through IVF when she was 57. However, she had to travel to a Russian clinic for IVF using a donor egg after being refused treatment in the UK because of her age. A burst ulcer in her stomach after the birth nearly killed her.
'We want a sibling for Freya for when we are not around but we had to seriously reconsider it. The doctors didn't have any problems treating me but I know there are huge risks. I wish I was 35 again but I'm not - and I've got to realise that, however hard it is. I had hoped to set a precedent for older women but that's not going to happen.'
Peter Bowen-Simpkins, medical director of the London Women's Clinic in Harley Street, said: 'I would very strongly agree with the view that in general women over 50 should not have IVF treatments. While in some cases there are compelling reasons, I think it is unlikely we will see anyone else of 59 attempting IVF, and there are a lot of medical reasons they shouldn't.'
Michaela Aston of the pro-life charity Life, which offers counselling for women considering abortion and fertility treatment, said offering IVF to post-menopausal women was a deeply worrying development. 'Women of this age do not conceive naturally for a reason, we should be guided by Mother Nature on this.'
To read more go to http://bit.ly/aWXhGI
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Sex to make babies may become redundant as IVF becomes the norm
Sex may become redundant as a method of conceiving babies as couples routinely turn to IVF, scientists have predicted. They say thirtysomethings will increasingly rely on artificial methods of fertilisation because natural human reproduction is 'fairly inefficient'. It means that in future, sex will be nothing more than a leisure activity - hammering a further nail into the Christian idea that the role of sex is to produce children.
If the experts are right, it means the sci-fi world of books such as Brave New World, in which all children are born in 'hatcheries', could soon be a step closer to reality. And it raises further ethical questions over whether greater use of IVF will lead to eugenics, with couples screening out characteristics they regard as undesirable.
The startling new vision of the future is the brainchild of John Yovich, a veterinary doctor from Murdoch University in Australia. He believes IVF has the potential to ease the pressure on couples who have delayed having children to their thirties or forties to pursue a career, because in the future going for the test tube option will be much more effective than trying for a baby naturally.
Even young adults have no more than a one-in-four chance every month of reproducing through sex, and among the over 35s, this falls to one in 10. This compares to a near 100 per cent success rate which he believes will be possible with IVF within 10 years. Dr Yovich, co-author of a new report in the journal Reproductive BioMedicine, said: 'We are not quite at that stage yet, but that is where we're heading. Natural human reproduction is at best a fairly inefficient process. 'Within the next five to 10 years, couples approaching 40 will assess the IVF industry first when they want to have a baby.'
The vet, based his hunch on the fact that in cattle, IVF works almost 100 per cent of the time. He said there was no reason that success rate could not be replicated in humans very soon. His co-author, Australian vet Gabor Vajta, said test-tube embryo production in cattle was 100 times more efficient than natural means. He said there was no reason why IVF in humans should not become 100 times more efficient than natural sex.
To read more go to http://bit.ly/cO2L9e
If the experts are right, it means the sci-fi world of books such as Brave New World, in which all children are born in 'hatcheries', could soon be a step closer to reality. And it raises further ethical questions over whether greater use of IVF will lead to eugenics, with couples screening out characteristics they regard as undesirable.
The startling new vision of the future is the brainchild of John Yovich, a veterinary doctor from Murdoch University in Australia. He believes IVF has the potential to ease the pressure on couples who have delayed having children to their thirties or forties to pursue a career, because in the future going for the test tube option will be much more effective than trying for a baby naturally.
Even young adults have no more than a one-in-four chance every month of reproducing through sex, and among the over 35s, this falls to one in 10. This compares to a near 100 per cent success rate which he believes will be possible with IVF within 10 years. Dr Yovich, co-author of a new report in the journal Reproductive BioMedicine, said: 'We are not quite at that stage yet, but that is where we're heading. Natural human reproduction is at best a fairly inefficient process. 'Within the next five to 10 years, couples approaching 40 will assess the IVF industry first when they want to have a baby.'
The vet, based his hunch on the fact that in cattle, IVF works almost 100 per cent of the time. He said there was no reason that success rate could not be replicated in humans very soon. His co-author, Australian vet Gabor Vajta, said test-tube embryo production in cattle was 100 times more efficient than natural means. He said there was no reason why IVF in humans should not become 100 times more efficient than natural sex.
To read more go to http://bit.ly/cO2L9e
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