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How to Track Ovulation by Charting Your Basal Body Temperature

Whether you’re trying for a baby or trying to avoid pregnancy, knowing when you ovulate is the key piece of information you need. As a woman, one way of pinpointing the ovulation date is to monitor...

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How to Influence Gender Selection

Trying to influence the gender of a child before conception is an age-old practice steeped in folklore and myth. However, among some of the techniques are a few that use actual fertility science as the...

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How to Tell When a Baby is Due

With pregnancy comes one question that most people ask: When is the baby due? There are several ways to determine due dates. Once you reach the last weeks of pregnancy there are further clues that may...

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How to Tell When Your Ovulating

Ovulation occurs when a woman’s body releases an egg into her Fallopian tubes. The two days before ovulation and the day of ovulation are a woman’s most fertile time, so if you’re trying for a baby,...

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How to avoid pregnancy using the Rhythm method or the calendar method

The rhythm method, also known as the calendar method, is a natural form of birth control that involves a woman monitoring her menstrual cycle and avoiding unprotected intercourse during her most...

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How to Have a Baby After Having a Partial Hysterectomy

A partial hysterectomy is a medical procedure during which a physician removes a woman's upper uterus while she is under anesthetic. On occasion, a woman might need to have her cervix, the lower part...

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Monthly Growth of a Baby During Pregnancy

It's important to check up on the growth of your baby while you are pregnant. Learn the signs that show your baby is doing good with help from a practicing obstetrician in this free video.

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How to Count the Length of a Menstrual Cycle

A woman's menstrual cycle affects her ability to become pregnant; determining the length of your menstrual cycle is, therefore, a useful strategy in family planning to figure out when pregnancy is most...

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How to Determine Ovulation With an Irregular Cycle

Whether you are considering or trying to prevent pregnancy, knowing when you ovulate during an irregular cycle can help you conceive or avoid conception. The ovulation process occurs when one or more...

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Techniques for Having a Baby Boy

Worldwide, 51 percent of the babies born are boys and 49 percent are girls. Generally speaking, you have a 50/50 shot at having a baby of either gender. Theories abound on how you can conceive a boy or...

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How to Speed Up Child Birth

There are many ways to speed up childbirth if you have not begun to have contractions yet. Whether a mother plans a home birth or a hospital birth, if she remains calm and does what feels right, she...

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Natural Ways to Extend the Luteal Phase

The luteal phase is a time period within a woman's menstrual cycle. The luteal phase starts the day after ovulation and lasts until menstruation. Because conception occurs during the luteal phase, this...

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What Are OB Tampons?

O.B. tampons are non-applicator tampons manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. They come in several sizes to best fit each woman's individual body and needs. Some women find them easy to use and...

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How to Chart Your Menstrual Cycle to Achieve Pregnancy

Though doctors often rely on the conventional wisdom that a woman's menstrual cycle lasts, on average, 28 days, there are variations from woman to woman. According to Toni Weschler, MPH, a woman's...

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Luteal Phase Defect Symptoms

Progesterone is a tricky hormone. You may be familiar with it as the hormone that makes up your birth control pill. While it is used in birth control, progesterone is also necessary to sustain a...

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How to Know If a Guy Can Have Kids

Though infertility is commonly associated with the female partner, according to the National Infertility Association, studies indicate that around 35 percent of infertility cases are caused by male...

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Myths on Conceiving a Girl

There is much folklore and myths to help couples choose the gender of their baby they hope to conceive. As odd as they may seem, desperate parents-to-be will try almost anything in hopes of having a...

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Symptoms of Periods

Period symptoms, also known as premenstrual syndrome or PMS, typically occur in the one to two weeks leading up to a woman's period. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the...

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How to Track a Period Cycle

The menstrual cycle is the process a woman's body undergoes in preparation for pregnancy. The uterus grows a new lining each month that serves to support a fertilized egg, and when no fertilized egg is...

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What Are the Causes of Artificial Insemination Failure?

Couples that continually fail to get pregnant often turn to fertility medicine and/or processes. The current society also allows single mothers and lesbian couples to conceive babies, increasing the...

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How to Calculate a Birth Chart

A birth chart is a tool that helps an astrologer understand an individual's personality traits. Before the advent of the Internet, complicated calculations were necessary to draw a birth chart. The...

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How to Make Your Own Moon Cycle Planner

A full moon cycle is completed in 28 days. Correlated to this is a woman's menstrual cycle, lasting an average of 28 days, as well. When pagan spirituality shifted to Christian religious beliefs,...

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How to Ease Heavy Periods

Menorrhagia, or heavy periods, affect 1 in 5 American women, according to the Advanced Women's Health Center. Symptoms of menorrhagia are heavy bleeding, painful cramps and prolonged menstruation...

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How to Donate Ova

Ova are the eggs made by a woman's ovaries to be fertilized by a man's sperm in the process of reproduction. Unfortunately for some women, the ovaries do not function properly leading to unhealthy eggs...

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Equate Instructions

Home pregnancy tests all work on the same principle: paper embedded with certain chemicals will react to hormones in a pregnant woman's urine. The Equate home pregnancy test, or HPT, is sold...

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What Are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Female & Male Sterilization?

Sterilization offers couples a safe alternative for long-term contraception. While the process of sterilization is different between men and women, the result is the same. Sterilization offers some...

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How to Interpret Basal Temperature Charts

Basal body temperature charts help women determine their cycle of ovulation and the best time to conceive. Charts come in many forms, but the temperature readings section is present on every chart....

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How Do I Know Whether I'm Fertile or Not?

Most women don't stop to think about their fertility until it really matters -- when they become pregnant or are trying to get pregnant. And for most women, that's just fine. Still, when it does...

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