Raising miscarriage awareness and how to help those who have experienced loss.October to me is more than Halloween and warm spring days. It’s also pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. That makes October an emotional month for many families as we remember all the babies gone too soon.
Are you looking at getting pregnant at 40? Find out how you can reduce the risk to you & your future baby.There are many reasons why a woman may be trying to fall pregnant after the age of 40. She could be a career woman who gave up the gift of giving birth to focus on her job. Perhaps she was waiting until she was financially stable, or the right man just never came along. Maybe she is trying for another after already having children. There are a multitude of reasons and there are also many myths around the topic. While there are certainly risks to having children later in life, new research is proving there are ways to reduce that risk through simple means.
Here at Baby Vine, we are always receiving a number of questions from you all! Blackmores’ Naturopath, Charmaine Sofia shares some of her answers to some very common questions…
When I was trying to conceive, it was my most feared part of the month: the dreaded two-week wait.
In the first weeks of your cycle (or at least after your period ends) you have determination, hope and a goal: to have sex at the optimum time so you fall pregnant. Game on. There’s the temping, the OPKS and, of course, the frequent sex, all keeping you preoccupied.
If you’re like me, you spend your two week wait symptom-spotting and driving yourself mad. One million-dollar question plagues all your thoughts: is my period on the way, or am I pregnant?Unfortunately, there’s a fine line between the two. Early pregnancy symptoms can mimic premenstrual ones, as the change in hormones during the onset of pregnancy is similar to the hormone fluctuations that occur at the start of your menstrual cycle – but that doesn’t have to stop you from guessing, right?
A natural way to achieve or prevent pregnancy using the Billings Ovulation Method.Trying for a baby is often a very exciting time in a couple’s life, filled with eagerness and anticipation. Birth control is thrown out the window in the vain hope that within a few short months, a little miracle will be on the way. But it’s not always that simple.
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