Twice a Mommy

Have you been diagnosed as being infertile or believe that you may be having infertility issues? Have you been trying to get pregnant for a year or more without success or just a few months and you are worried because you haven’t been able to get pregnant?

Infertility specialists consider you infertile or suffering from infertility after trying to get pregnant for 12 months without success. The stigma associated with infertility can be devastating and may cause you more undue stress that can further inhibit your ability to become pregnant naturally.

Do not believe the myth that there really is something wrong with you or feel that you will never become pregnant naturally or without the aid of modern medicine. Infertility is not a disease and as long as you still have your reproductive organs it is still possible for you to become pregnant naturally once the obstacles that are inhibiting your ability to become pregnant are overcome. Basically, it is usually not an issue with your reproductive organs that are to blame for the difficulty you may be having getting pregnant.

For most couples, infertility or the troubles that you are having getting pregnant are caused by other contributing factors that can be resolved by making your body healthy again. These days many infertility clinics and prospective parents are turning to Traditional Chinese Medicine and more natural forms of treatment to restore the body to a more healthy state that is conducive to becoming pregnant.

Traditional Chinese Medicine takes more of a whole body approach to treating infertility and restoring balance to the body. Acupuncture, nutrition, massage, herbal treatments and lifestyle changes improve health and vitality to the patient’s body and have been proven in studies to successfully treat a wide range of ancillary factors that might be piece in part of the reasons why you might be having difficulty becoming pregnant.

It is typically not a single factor that is the problem but system wide issues that are often the problem with couples who are having difficulty getting pregnant or who have been diagnosed with infertility. For example, hormone treatment in itself might never allow you to become pregnant if you also have tubal obstructions and your husband is suffering from low sperm count. Read More

One of the most frequently asked questions about pregnancy is the best time to get pregnant. It is neither the Christmas time nor the Valentine’s Day. One needs to be good in mathematics if one is serious about getting pregnant as it totally depends on the ovulating days. Now the question arises that how should one calculate this crucial time? For people who are good in mathematics need not worry but others should get hold of an Ovulation Calculator.

It is important to have some knowledge about one’s own body and its functioning in order to find out the probable dates of ovulation. The ‘post ovulation time’ or the ‘Luteal Phase’ is the period between ovulation and the first day of the menstrual cycle. This period consists of fourteen days and is the same for most women. After fourteen days of the ovulation the period starts. Now what one needs to know is the date due for the next period. By counting back twelve to sixteen days from this date, one is likely to get the days of ovulation. Generally, women who have a cycle of twenty eight days, ovulate on the fourteenth day. Since this is so important to know in order to get pregnant, the ovulation date can also be checked through the BBT technique or the Basal Body Temperature. This is a method that involves the recording of vaginal temperature every morning by a BBT thermometer (with a fine calibration). The thermometer displays a higher temperature on the day of ovulation that the other days.

To explain this fact in a simpler way, the egg starts developing from the end of the menstrual cycle and between the 8th to 12th days it is at its maximum. So the chance to get pregnant is the most if one has intercourse on the 8th, the 10th and the 12th day. This is the most effective time to get pregnant. One shocking fact related to getting pregnant is that the egg lives only for a period of 12 to 16 hours in a cycle! Many gynecologists are of the opinion that the life span of the egg ranges from 12 to 24 hours. But the fertility experts say that it is likely to wither away within 15 to 16 hours. So it is important to hit it at the correct time!

Now its time to shift the focus from the Woman to the Man!  If a couple has intercourse on regular basis, it is likely that the strength of the sperms may lack the desired force and the sperm count may also be less than it is required for the fertility level. In addition, the rate of sperm motility may also be hampered. Again, if the sexual union is not so frequent, there are chances that the sperms may become stale and old, making it lack its desired vitality. According to the opinion of the fertility experts, coitus should take place twice weekly for the best result.

It is surprising that tough the female ovum dies within such a short period, the male sperm survives and moves about from 2 to 5 days within the vaginal canal. Keeping this fact in mind, it may be fruitful to have intercourse a couple of days earlier than the date of ovulation, so that the sperm gets plenty of opportunities to hit the egg.

It is important here to point out that following all the above mentioned guidelines may not be enough for getting pregnant. For further assistance, one may turn to holistic remedies that helps find out the actual cause of a problem if there is any and then suggests a remedy that is accurate. These remedies are of a wide range that includes Chinese medications to acupuncture, from exercise to helpful herbs, from lifestyle changes to a healthy and balances diet. Unlike the age-old, conventional therapies which mostly fail, the holistic remedies almost always give the desired results. Read More