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.
Mix up your regular weeknight dinners with this delicious alternative: stuffed capsicum.
We can get a bit repetitive with dinners in our household. The reliable meat and veg combination tends to take over most nights, and even then our variety of vegetables don’t change as much as they perhaps should. This stuffed capsicum dish is a great one to pair with a piece of meat to mix up your weeknight dinners, or even just to eat on its own. It’s quick and easy to make too.
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.
Rich in folic acid, this is healthy snack has added benefits when you are pregnant or trying to conceive, so dig into some homemade guacamole.When trying to conceive, it’s a great idea to load up on foods rich in folic acid. Having enough in your body before you fall pregnant (and while you are pregnant) can prevent major birth defects, such as spina bifida and anencephaly.
Avocado and lime are rich in this important vitamin, so beat 3pm-itis and pack your body full of this healthy and beneficial snack. It’s also very quick and easy to prepare and can be done the night before.
Felicity Frankish shares the gaping holes in her sex-ed classes and shares all she knows about ovulation.I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers those awkward classes we were embarrassingly subjected to in our teenage years. Putting condoms on bananas; videos of hair growing in places we never had it before; the changing female body; men with their voices changing overnight – each one was met with stifled giggles as we tried to hide our mortification.
The safe-sex talks were just as emotionally damaging. I remember role-playing different scenarios and wanting to die a thousand deaths in the process. It seemed the one thing drilled into us over and over was that if we didn’t want to get pregnant, abstinence was key. I walked away from the classes feeling reassured of the fact that if we had to go to all these measures to prevent it, surely falling pregnant would be easy when the time came.
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