Feb
25

The Secrets to Getting in Shape and Losing Weight After Pregnancy

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Pregnancy weight loss is not as problematic as you expect, since so much of the extra pounds will go away with delivery and then during the breastfeeding period. The fat deposits on hips and buttocks will melt away in what scientists call breastfeeding weight loss. A nursing mother who does not supplements her baby’s diet with formula can burn up to 600 calories per day, which is huge. This process has a natural and simple explanation.

The body puts a tremendous amount of effort into milk production. Minerals, vitamins and all the other essential nutrients have to be passed to the baby to insure harmonious growth, and the mother’s body manufacturers everything consuming from the existing resources. In the absence of a balanced diet, the mother’s body will be depleted of vital energy and serious ailments could appear. Add up the action of the hormones and you get very successful breastfeeding weight loss.

Weight loss is not immediately visible in the postpartum. Make sure that your diet provides the optimal amount of 1800 calories that insure the desired fitness level. Some mothers prefer not to rely exclusively on breastfeeding weight loss and do everything in their power to shed the extra pounds. Thus, you may be able to lose a pound a week while breastfeeding, without sacrificing anything from the quality of the milk you provide for the baby.

Diet and exercise will also contribute to breastfeeding weight loss. Nevertheless, you should not try to workout before you have regained powered and recovered after delivery. The right course of action can be best advised by a health care provider. Think of your baby first and foremost, even if you feel like following all the breastfeeding weight loss tips you come across.

The diet and the physical training program should be well adjusted to your condition after delivery, and only a doctor can assess your physical and emotional state. The approach to weight loss will be different depending on whether you had a natural birth or a cesarean section. Be realistic and patient and you will see that breastfeeding weight loss is the way nature helps you get in the shape closest to what you used to have before pregnancy. It took nine months to pile up weight, and it will take almost just as much to shed the extra pounds away.

Feb
18

Maximize Your Chance of Getting Pregnant – Part Two

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While attempting to conceive, couples should have sexual intercourse several times per week. Unfortunately, ovulation cycles may shift from time to time. Regular sex not only fortifies a relationship, it’s a way of ensuring that no opportunities are missed. Remaining still for at least 20 minutes following sex is a good way to help the sperm remain inside your body, which will increase your chances of getting pregnant. Nourishment and Diet Having good nourishment and eating a reasonable, healthful diet plays a very critical role. Try and eat a diet loaded in fruit and veggies, lean protein and wholegrain, fiber-rich foods, for example brown bread, rice and pasta. The nutrients and vitamins that are found in specific foods can also help you in becoming pregnant. Spinach, broccoli, kale, and cabbage all contain high concentrations of folic acid, which is highly beneficial to both the mother trying to get pregnant and the unborn child.

While developing, the fetus relies on folic acid to grow, and it helps guard against certain defects, such as spina bifida. Certain breads, common household breakfast cereals, and even multivitamin tablets usually have folic acid. Beans, beats, and lean beef are packed with both iron and protein. These significant nutrients aid in keeping iron levels high in the body. If you do not have proper iron level in the blood, your ovulation could be adversely affected due to the overall ovarian wellness. Healthy eggs and can be found in seeds and nuts, dairy foods, yeast, wholegrain foods, lean beef and shellfish. Pregnancy will require higher levels of calcium for both you, and your developing child.  Be certain to increase your calcium intake while you are trying to become pregnant.

This article completes our short series aimed at helping you increase your odds of getting pregnant. If you haven’t already, please read the first half of this article to provide yourself with a full range of understanding. If you find you are not getting pregnant as easily as you feel you should be, various herbs and other natural methods are available to try, as well as conventional medical treatments.

You are invited to find out even more about the various natural methods available to increase your fertility – visit us at Fertility Education. You can also visit Clearblue Fertility Monitor, if you are interested in learning about a device that I utilized to get pregnant.

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Feb
16

Male Infertility Tests

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Despite the fact that many people still are inclined to view infertility as the woman’s problem, roughly one third of infertile couples battle to get pregnant because of the ‘male factor’, and in a small percentage of couples both the man and the woman have infertility issues. While your lady will need to undergo some testing to see precisely where the problem lies, you will need to have a male infertility test to find out what your role is in the situation. Each person or couple may have to undergo different tests determined by the unique circumstance.

You will need to inform your doctor on your complete medical history: any medication, any STDs, any operations, any childhood diseases. This is not the time to be timid; your doctor needs to know everything in order to reach an accurate diagnosis. Smoking, alcohol, recreational drugs, caffeine – all of these can affect your fertility. The doctor will also need a record of your full sexual history: the number of sexual partners, when you reached puberty, any high risk sexual behaviors, your first sexual encounters, any STDs – all of these are significant. Even though you are shy about speaking about past STDs or similar things you don’t want to waste money and time having blood tests for the doctor to figure it out anyway. The doctors are there to help, not to judge.

You will also need to have a complete physical examination just to exclude any obvious problems. Here the doctor will look for enlarged veins on the scrotum (otherwise known as variococeles) and will check for any testicular abnormalities. Hormonal problems might also be picked up in the physical.

A semen analysis is crucial. You could need up to three tests to verify that results are accurate. This means ejaculating into a cup or container provided by the doctor. You may be asked not to ejaculate for a few days before to get a more accurate sperm count.

The sample will be sent for testing and the pathologists will check a number of things:

· Quantity? – They measure the entire volume of semen produced – typically a teaspoon is adequate.

· Sperm movement – The sperm cells should be swimming vigorously. It doesn’t make a difference what stroke they swim – as long as they are moving well!

· Sperm count – How many spermies are there in all? The testers will set aside a small sample of the semen and work out how many sperm cells are present and then estimate the number for the full amount of semen. At a standard rate of about 40 million sperm for each ejaculation no one is counting exactly!

· Sperm quality – If the spermies aren’t fully developed or if they are deformed they won’t be able to move well and might not be able burrow through the outer covering of the egg.

· pH levels – Slightly acidic semen is most helpful to sperm.

· Semen – The semen needs to be just the right consistency for the sperm to be able to move effectively.

Depending on the conclusions of these tests you may require additional testing. This might include:

· Blood testing – to check general health and hormone quantities.

· Testicle tissue test – to look for healthy sperm producing cells.

· Scans – will find variococeles or obstructed tubes.

· Sperm might be tested by leaving them in a dish with a dead human egg or a hamster egg. There is no chance of creating a living embryo from these trials.

· Anti-sperm antibody tests to check that the neither the woman’s cervical mucus nor the man’s own body manufacture antibodies to the man’s sperm.

· Irregularities with sperm manufacture can be detected through genetic testing.

· A post-coital test. Both the man and the woman are tested – even though the woman is the one who is examined. This test determines how many sperm actually get to the cervix by taking samples from the cervix a day after intercourse, usually close to the time of ovulation.

Don’t let pride interfere with your plans to get a male infertility test. You might save your partner and yourself much discomfort and pain!

Here is more information on Signs of Infertility. Here is a website with a free mini-course dedicated to Infertility.

Feb
16

Infertility Myths

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Isn’t it strange how the whole trying to get pregnant story seems to bring out all those tall stories and old wives’ tales? Infertility myths are rather common (and funnily enough, common sense isn’t). The information you hear could range from innocuous to extremely tactless, and is unfortunately often untrue.

  • Well intentioned relatives could inform you that it’s your imagination and you ought to just lighten up and you’ll have a baby. Are you convinced that you don’t want a baby too much? On the other hand, what if, buried in the depths of your subconscious mind, you don’t genuinely want to conceive? Might that be it? Surely there might be a smaller number of abandoned babies if not desiring to get pregnant was adequate to make you infertile?
  • Other relatives, perhaps your in-laws, could be tempted to blame it on you, because infertility is the woman’s problem in any case, and we don’t want to believe that maybe he inherited his low sperm count from us. The stats show that overall men and women are equally infertile. Approximately 1/3 of all instances of infertility are a result of problems with the woman’s reproductive capacity, and the second third is because of problems on the man’s part. The final third is formed by the cases where no cause could be found, or instances where both parties have problems. So this is one of those moments where blame is definitely unhelpful.
  • Many people lie to blame the contraceptive pill for infertility. Those nasty hormones could really wreck your fertility, from the devil they are! Even with its bad rep, the pill doesn’t make you infertile, but it may mask any fertility problems that already exist. Your neighbor might have a story about her second-cousin who got pregnant just months after she and her husband adopted – sheesh, everyone has one of those stories, but when do they ever tell you about those who didn’t conceive after they adopted? Those stories aren’t nearly as much fun to tell.
  • A well-meaning shop assistant may remark that perhaps this is the universe’s way of informing you that parenthood is not part of your eternal fate, that all things happen for a reason, and that you won’t be given more than you can deal with – but don’t you wish the universe had asked you what you thought? How come they get a hotline to ‘Discover your Supreme Destiny’ and you don’t? Being informed that you are doing your part to reduce overpopulation doesn’t make it any easier either, no matter what the greenies say.

That said, there is sometimes a minutely tiny bit of truth in some of those infertility myths. When you encounter these infertility myths you just need to take care to do your research so you can set those prying old ladies straight and possibly even get some information that can actually help you.

Here is more information on Infertility Information. Here is a website with a free mini-course dedicated to Infertility.

Feb
09

Pregnancy After Guide

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While birth control pills are the number one form of birth control in the U.S. today, its effectiveness varies from about 92% to 99%. There are many factors that play into just how effective it is. So at some point, many women decide they are done having children and want a more permanent form of birth control which does not include having to remember to take a pill every day at the right time. For this, many women turn to tubal ligation.

However there remains the question of how effective getting your tubes tied is as well. Is there a chance of you having a pregnancy after tubal ligation?

To actually answer this question, we have to break the answer down by groups, so to speak. What this means is that there are the women who are afraid of and do not want a pregnancy. Then there are the women who change their minds for whatever reason and decide they do want to get pregnant again.

For the first group, the results of a CREST study gave the chances of a woman becoming pregnant following her ligation surgery as 1.43 in 100 or 1.43%. That’s because out of a group of 10,000 women in the study, 143 became pregnant. So even though you don’t have to remember to take the pill or put on the patch any more, you do still have a chance of becoming pregnant.

Unfortunately, if you do become pregnant after getting your tubes tied, there is a much greater risk of it being an ectopic pregnancy. If you start having symptoms of being pregnant following your surgery, get to a doctor quick. An untreated ectopic pregnancy can be life-threatening.

Now should you be desirous of a pregnancy after tubal ligation, then your answer becomes, “Yes, you can have a chance of getting pregnant again.” You will need to have tubal reversal surgery to repair your fallopian tubes as best as they can be. In a study done by one leading tubal reversal (and tubal surgery for women wanting tubal blockages removed) clinic, women have on average a better than 2/3 chance of getting pregnant following the tubal reversal surgery. This is much, much better than the alternative of IVF.

One thing you should know is that this varies according to your age, the type of tubal ligation you had done (the amount of damage done to your fallopian tubes), and the amount of tubes left after the damage is removed and the tubes reattached. If you fall just right in those categories, your chances of getting pregnant can be as high as 87%. Those are pretty good odds for a pregnancy after tubal ligation.

 

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Feb
05

Infertility Symptoms – Sex, Age and Lifestyle Factors

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Symptoms from Infertility – Definitions

When a couple is unable to become pregnant after 12 months of unprotected intercourse, they are considered infertile. Infertility is the incapacity to procreate.

Couples have different reactions to the news of being infertile. The news can be particularly hard on couples that are without children.

Infertile couples who’ve never had children are classified under primary infertility.

In another light, secondary infertility refers to couples who had successfully gotten pregnant before but are now having problems conceiving.

The Man Factor

Various factors, both emotional and physical, can lead to infertility.

“Male factors” like hormone deficiency, low sperm count, impotence, retrograde ejaculation, environmental pollutants and scarring from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) cause roughly 30 to 40% of infertility cases.

Sperm count may be negatively influenced by marijuana abuse or use of prescription drugs, like cimetidine, spironolactone, and nitrofurantoin.

Femaleness

Scarring from STDs, hormonal imbalances, ovulation dysfunction, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, poor nutrition, pelvic infection, tumors, and fallopian tube abnormality are examples of “female factors.” These make up between 40 and 50 % of infertility problems among couples.

Risk factors contributed by both the male and the female, in addition to other unknown causes, comprise 10 to 30% of infertility cases.

It is estimated that just 10 to 20% of couples fail to conceive after a year. It is very crucial for couples to contine trying to have a baby at least for 12 months.

Factors Related To Age

Healthy partners both below 30 years of age having intercourse regularly only have a 25 to 30% probability every month to become pregnant. A woman is most fertile when she’s in her 20s. The likelihood of pregnancy for women above 35 years old is less than 10% each month, even less for those beyond 40 years old.

Other Causes Not Age Related

It is not just age or its related factors that causes infertility. Infertility may also be increased due to the following:

* Having more than one sexual partner (high STD risk)
* Sexually transmitted infections
* Pelvic inflammatory disease history
* History of epididymitis or orchitis in men
* Men who’ve suffered mumps before
* Abnormal vein enlargement in scrotum
* Health history citing DES exposure (both sexes)
* Eating disorders among women
* Anovulation and irregular menstruation
* Endometriosis
* Problems with the uterus or the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes

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