Baby Gender Predictor - Can You Really Predict A Baby's Sex ?

By Olivia Campbell-Price

Pregnancy is a great time of life for many couples. While you impatiently wait for your bundle of joy to make its appearance, you'll find that there are plenty of people who will offer their opinions on your baby's gender. It seems that everyone is a baby gender predictor when they see a mommy-to-be.

Of course, there are many old wives tales ranging from the shape and size of your belly to how you look at your fingernails to the kinds of food you crave during your pregnancy. While these baby gender predictor tricks can be funny, they're questionable as to accuracy.

An amazing accurate baby gender predictor is an ancient chart found in a royal tomb in China. Referred to as the Chinese pregnancy or baby prediction calendar, it correlates the mother's lunar age with the date of the baby's conception to determine gender.

It used to be extremely difficult to predict a baby's gender before birth, but with the advent of the ultrasound machine, this has become a reality for many expectant parents. The best time to perform the sonogram is during the middle of the second trimester. It is a non-invasive procedure and can be quite accurate if performed under the right conditions.

Prior to undergoing an ultrasound examination, the mother might need to drink large amounts of water to enable a clearer picture to present itself. Other than a full bladder, there is little to no discomfort. The sonogram can be pretty accurate but there are factors which can obscure the details of the baby's gender such as the direction it is facing during examination. The baby's size and age can also affect the examination. For that reason, a sonogram as a baby gender predictor falls short of providing 100% accuracy.

Medical testing is the only way at this time to accurately determine a baby's sex before the birth event. However, medical testing procedures such as amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling carry a risk of harm to a fetus and because of this high risk, using them as a baby gender predictor is not a viable option.

These days, it's not uncommon for expectant parents to want to learn the sex of their baby beforehand. With busy lives and exciting, yet unknown changes, anything that can make the anticipation of a new baby's arrival a little easier is often a welcome relief. With baby gender predictor information, new parents can plan better and feel less harried when their precious bundle finally arrives. - 29962

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Five Tips To Become Pregnant Fast

By Brock Davis

How to become pregnant fast? Many people want to know the answer to this question. There are some tips which will definitely improve your chances on becoming pregnant fast. Let's look at the 5 main ones, but you should only follow these tips if you know that there are no other medical problems with you and your partner.

Tip 1: Improve your health before trying to conceive. Many of the infertility reasons are due to an unhealthy life style. Start to do some moderate exercise, eat healthy, avoid chemicals and lose some weight. All these can help you to get conceive.

If you are consuming any alcohol and nicotine, stop immediately. Those have an negative impact on your effort to conceive a healthy child. Next you must relax yourself and stay happy everyday. This will help you to have a healthy pregnancy. It is difficult to get pregnant if you are stressed and depressed.

Tip 2. Don't try to have sex all the time during the cycle. It will make you and your partner tired and then sex becomes a chore. Remember that it is not the amount of sex that will get you pregnant; it is having sex at the right time that will do the trick. For younger women it is only 1 or 2 days in a month when they are able to become pregnant (if your ovulation comes monthly).

For women above 35 years old, their ovulation may not come that often and it can be as rare as once in 6 months. That is the reason why older women are harder to get pregnant. Even though it is harder, it is still possible.

Tip 3. Based on a finding by the University of North Carolina, the best time to have sex for pregnancy is when fertile cervical mucus is present. Fertile cervical mucus helps sperm to swim easier and faster it also makes the penetration of the egg easier because of the special environment the fertile cervical mucus produces around the egg.

Unfortunately fertile cervical mucus is not present for a long time. It can be 1 to 2 days only, so it is very easy to miss the exact time. The best way to detect fertile cervical mucus is to do self-examination and measure basal body temperature. One big problem with ovulation prediction kits is they are not very helpful in predicting fertile mucus, so if you use this kind of kit you can miss out.

Tip 4: Having adequate amounts of sperm when you have sex during ovulation is important. Therefore avoid having any sexual activities a few days before your ovulation begins If the couple has sex before the ovulation time, the amount of sperm delivered will be lower. Although the volume of sperm may be the same, the quality of the sperm can decrease if you have sex every day. Abstaining for a few days helps to built up a good amount of sperm.

Tip 5: Based on a few studies, it is concluded that you can get pregnant easier if you enjoy the sex and have an orgasm during it. During orgasm, the woman genital muscles relaxes. This makes it easier for the fertilized egg to imbed into the uterus lining and continue to grow. Thus women should not be stressed and treat sex as a chore.

To conclude, these five tips can help many couples to become pregnant faster. Don't dismiss these rules by saying "I know that all." Try them and follow them for some time, you will see result. - 29962

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How To Cure Infertility - Two Easy Tips And Tricks

By Brock Davis

One of the biggest obstacles a couple can ever go through is infertility. This is especially so since many couples who get married is to plan to have their own families. Facing this issue is surely very frustrating.

If you are searching for cure to infertility, there are two ways:

1. Focus on your lifestyle. Your lifestyle largely affects your infertility as it is a major factor in your health. So, paying some attention to your lifestyle can be a good way how to cure infertility.

The first thing you must do here is to look at what you eat. Your diet plays a big part in being infertile so if you can avoid quite a number of food items that are not ideal for increasing your fertility, please do so.

This mostly includes soy based products and meat with estrogen. Instead, consume more natural food items that are rich in calcium, Vitamin b6, and omega 6 to name a few.

Also, avoiding unhealthy habits such as smoking and excessive drinking of alcohol is another way how to cure infertility. Remember, your body needs to be at its best to produce another life form, so make sure you do everything you can to help it.

2. Get treated. With the advances this modern times now have in science, there are also now a good handful of various treatments for infertility. This is a great way how to cure infertility because it is medically proven and tested, making it safe for you to try.

You have many selection to select from like surgery, drug treatments, and many other artifical ways of getting pregnant.

Apart from the above two tips, there are still many holistic ways to get pregrant and have healthy children. Do some research and learn more about this condition. You will surely be able to find a solution to address it. - 29962

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Acupuncture

By Elie Goldschmidt

Acupuncture provides several fertility benefits and can be helpful for people who are suffering from fertility complications or infertility. Acupuncture is one among the Chinese medical techniques for curing the infertility problems. This treatment involves sticking of thin needles into different points present in the body.

The stimulation of these needles will helping the opening of pathways that affects the operating of human body. The practitioners using acupuncture may use the technique in along with the western medical treatments or in combination with the herbal treatment techniques. The 'American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine' (ABORM) is the body that trains and certifies people to perform the therapy for treating infertility.

You will get to know the complete information regarding the acupuncture as well as different herbal medicine treatments during the training period. You must also understand about the western medicine that will be asked for almost half of the exams during the training period in order to become certified. Patients can easily get the information about the certification as well as training of individuals for acupuncture fertility treatment from a trained professional or through consulting the ABNORM.

Acupuncture may be an effective treatment for patients suffering from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis, low sperm count, poor egg quality and low ovarian reserve. Patients with an increased maternal age, those with sperm DNA fragmentation and who experience recurrent miscarriages may also be candidates for this treatment. Those suffering from immunological causes of infertility, implantation failures, patients undergoing in vitro fertilization or other assisted reproductive technology treatments and those with unexplained infertility problems may also be candidates for acupuncture.

The acupuncture is developed on the basis of an assumption that the life energy of the body, which is called as Qi will flow through your body, thereby by protecting from several diseases, pain and illness. This assumption also states that lack of exercise, poor diet, trauma and stress can interrupt the energy in your body, which can result in infertility. The needles that are placed on different points of your body will help to release energy. Most of the practitioners assume that releasing the positive energy can push out the negative energy from your body.

The patient is required to lie still during the treatment and especially when the needles are placed. Every section in the treatment takes at least thirty minutes to complete. It has been found out that the acupuncture treatment is successful in helping the women to increase their blood flow towards the uterus and also reduces stress.

This treatment helps to strengthen your immune system and also reduces the side effects caused by fertility drugs.

It will be better to consult a practitioner if you are interested in knowing more about this therapy. - 29962

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Dramatically Increase Your Odds Of Becoming Pregnant - Part 2

By Amy Roberts

While attempting to conceive, couples should have sexual intercourse several times per week. Unfortunately, ovulation cycles may shift from time to time. Having sex frequently throughout the month not only increases the chances of conception, it also helps strengthen the emotional connection between a couple. You are much more likely to become pregnant by lying of your back for at least twenty minutes after your partner has ejaculated.

Getting the proper nutrients, and plenty of them, by eating a healthy diet is another step in the right direction. The age-old advice of eating lots of fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and whole grain foods definitely applies; replace white bread, rice and pasta with brown. There are specific vitamins and other nutrients contained in certain foods, which can help prepare your body for pregnancy. Folic acid, a vitamin needed by both mother and baby, can be found in vegetables such as broccoli, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, and kale.

It is very beneficial helping with fetus growth, and can deter debilitating birth defect such as spina bifida. Certain breads, common household breakfast cereals, and even multivitamin tablets usually have folic acid. You can get your protein, and also iron, from various beans, lean beef, and even beets. Crucial nutrition found in these foods helps your body maintain increased levels of iron. If you do not have proper iron level in the blood, your ovulation could be adversely affected due to the overall ovarian wellness.

Dairy products, seeds, nuts, whole grains, yeast, shellfish, and lean beef help maintain the health of your body's eggs. Higher calcium intake is also a must, especially if you've been trying to become pregnant for a year or more. This will not only stimulate fetal growth, but it can also help combat your depressive mood.

We have reached the end of our two-part series on increasing the odds of getting pregnant. If you haven't already read part one of this series, be sure to do so as it contains information not addressed here. 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. - 29962

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3 Top Methods To Conceive A Boy

By Ashley Mannor

Many tips for successfully conceiving a baby boy are available online and also written in many books and guides. These guidelines and tips are all proven scientifically. They are not based on old customs and beliefs. In spite of that, there is no way anybody can guarantee the birth of a boy. But a couple can increase the chances of conceiving a baby boy for sure. For successfully giving birth to a boy, one must be aware of all aspects of the process known as conception.

Many guides describe that for a healthy boy to be born, the environment of the mother should be alkaline. Acidic nature of environment may prove fatal to the foetus. Also the male sperm can blossom and grow in alkaline conditions.

Scientifically, the more acidic part of any woman's vagina is the entrance. The alkaline environment exists near its cervix. Hence, a deeper way of lovemaking is suggested by doctors for those couples who are wishing and trying for a boy. The behavior of the male sperm generally determines the gender of the baby. This fact has been scientifically proven. The male sperm is smaller in size than the female sperm. But it moves with greater speed than the female one. Also the female sperm has a longer life than its male equivalent. Hence, lovemaking is advised as close as possible to the day of ovulation. That increases the chances of a boy. The reasons for that are, as the egg is waiting to ovulate, the male sperms, which are faster than the female ones, will reach the egg and completely avoid the female sperms.

If it is done before the ovulation period starts, the chances of a baby boy decrease greatly. To know when a woman's ovulation period starts, one can refer to the ovulation prediction kits. They include calendars and tips to what one should do on specific days. The gynecologists and hospitals can provide couples with these tips. The calendars are also found on the internet.

Maintaining a healthy diet is the key to success. Generally intake of proteins and potassium is advised by doctors and health experts too. It is also believed that continuing the daily routine can help. Also intake of calories is necessary and can increase the chances. Daily exercise helps a woman's body to be fit and ready for pregnancy. For the baby to be healthy, the mother, who acts as the host, should be strong and healthy. - 29962

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In Vitro Fertilization - A Step By Step Guide To The Procedure

By Sally Height

In vitro fertilization (commonly referred to as simply IVF) is a process of assisted reproduction that provides couples who are infertile a chance to have a child who is biologically related to them. Over 250,000 babies have been born using the IVF procedure and it is now a fully established way of treating infertility.

With IVF, a man's sperm and the woman's egg are brought together by an IVF specialist in a laboratory dish. The embryo which forms is then put into the uterus (womb) of the woman to develop naturally. Typically, 3 or 4 embryos are put in the woman's uterus at one time. Each attempt is called a cycle, and the cost of IVF per cycle is approximately $10,000.

The full procedure is as follows:

The woman may be administered certain drugs (hormones) in order to induce her ovaries to create several eggs. A surgeon will then insert a needle into the woman's ovary to take out the eggs. At the same time, a semen sample is taken from the man. He will be asked not to have sex for half a week before the eggs are retrieved from his partner. The next step is for the sperm to be separated from the semen, which is done through a laboratory procedure.

Next, the sperm are combined in the laboratory dish with the eggs. Around 18 hours after this has been done, it is possible to find out if the egg or eggs have fertilized and have begun to grow as embryos. Should this have happened, they will be incubated over the next 2-7 days. The doctor then transfers the embryos back to the woman using a catheter (a long slender tube). She is then given certain hormones for the following 10-14 days.

The pregnancy success rate of this procedure is 36% among women younger than 35 years, 27% for those between 36-39 years and 13% in those who are 40+ years. Therefore, the total cost of IVF is normally over $20,000, as the odds are against a couple suceeding first time around.

As a final point, research has shown that babies born through IVF are at least as healthy as those born naturally. The only major complication comes in the risk of multiple births happening, with the probablity of twins or triplets being noticeably higher. - 29962

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