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Does Weight Affect My Fertility?

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Does Weight Affect My Fertility?
Weight affects fertility in a very large number of ways. Women who have high body mass index, who are either overweight or obese, have a higher likelihood of having irregular periods and having irregular periods. Which means that you are not ovulating or producing an egg every month. And obviously if you are not producing an egg, it's harder to get pregnant. Even for women who are overweight or ob...
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Improve Egg Quality In Your 40s

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Improve Egg Quality In Your 40s
We are all aware that trying to conceive can be a daunting task. As I approach 40, I am still interested in the possibility of having more children. So it is important for me to maintain healthy egg quality and there are three things that you can do to in order to improve it. So if that's something you want to to improve, keep reading! Go To Sleep The first one, it's perhaps the most important t...
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Let’s Celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 With These Badass Entrepreneurs

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Time to get motivated and make gender balance happen International Women’s Day is today, and we’re celebrating the 12.3 million women-owned businesses across the United States (as of 2018). Compare that to 1972, when women only owned 402,000 businesses and you can see what a long way we’ve come, Mama. The Scary Mommy Shop is proud to showcase female entrepreneurs who create and sell products...
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Infertility: Maintaining privacy, avoiding secrecy

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When Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, was released in October 2018, several reviewers noted that her book reveals that the Obamas struggled with infertility. When I was lucky enough to receive a copy as a gift, I learned that Michelle and Barack didn’t simply have a ‘touch of infertility’: they went through IVF in order to have both Malia and Sasha. Why, some reviewers se...
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How IVF Works

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In Vitro Fertilization
In 1978, Louise Brown became the world's first baby to be born by in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Her birth revolutionized the field of reproductive medicine. Given that approximately one in eight heterosexual couples has difficulty conceiving, and that homosexual couples and single parents often need clinical help to make a baby, the demand for IVF has been growing. IVF is so common, that more...
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Five Fertility Myths Debunked

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When you are thinking about having a baby or have decided to start to try, chances are you got on your laptop, tablet, or phone and started looking into ways to accomplish pregnancy quickly.  The problem is there is so much misinformation out there, it can be hard to distinguish the truth from the myths.  It seems like everyone and their mother have an input and know of some old wives tales to hel...
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3 Tips To Help Improve Your Fertility

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improve your fertility
When you want a baby, you want a baby now.  The problem is that sometimes it doesn’t happen right away, nor is it that easy.  It can be discouraging seeing negative pregnancy tests month after month when all you want is to be pregnant.  While I cannot guarantee you will pregnant, I would like to discuss three tips to help improve your fertility. Surely, there are more things that you can do to enh...
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Best Foods for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

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low AGE diet
I believe diet plays a very important role in our fertility.  While looking up information on PCOS I came across a video from Dr. Greger discussing the best foods for polyscystic ovary syndrome. He goes on to say that over the last two decades there has been increasing evidence supporting an important contribution from food-derived advanced glycation end products (AGEs), also known as glycotoxins,...
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Gearing Up For Ovulation

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Even though we are two months into the New Year, some of us are still working on our New Year’s resolution and trying to conceive.  After months of temping, charting, and trying to get pregnant, you have a pretty good handle on when you are ovulating.  You might even recognize some of the signs that your body is gearing up for ovulation. Gearing Up For Ovulation Whenever our bodies are prepa...
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Meditation During Pregnancy

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I have always understood and believed that keeping stress levels down when trying to get pregnant is crucial. However, I didn’t realize that keeping stress levels down during pregnancy was just as important.  One of the best ways to staying calm and clear headed is through meditation. Meditation Strengthens The Mother-Baby Bond Yes!  Yes mediation during pregnancy is very beneficial.  Meditation...
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