Whether you try to get pregnant for three months or three years there comes a point for most women when they begin to obsess. Everyone else in the world seems to be pregnant or post partum. Every shop has maternity clothes and every celebrity is sporting a baby bump. It seems so unfair and upsetting and it can feel like you will never get pregnant. Babies and pregnancy are all that you can think about and it not only drives you crazy and makes you feel blue but can begin …

It is a concern shared by many women that they will gain a lot of weight during pregnancy or will be unable to lose it after having the baby.
It cannot be denied that you will gain weight. You will gain between 2 - 5 pounds in your first trimester then around 1 pound per week every week after that point. In addition to baby you will have amniotic fluid, possible water retention and possible weight gain as a result of reduced levels of activity. The question therefore is not “will …

Conception is not always easy and some people can try to get pregnant for years whereas some can get pregnant within a few months of trying.
Many people cannot conceive naturally, either due to a medical reason such as low fertility or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or for unexplained reasons. In some cases a couple will decide or be advised to have IVF treatment to increase their chances of conception.
If you are not due to undergo IVF, are on a waiting list or have not had any problems but want to be as proactive …

Once you decide to actively try for a baby the first step is to determine when the best days to have sex are. In other words the days on which you are likely to be most fertile.
This is called fertility charting and can be done either with a diary/ calendar or with one of the many free fertility charting applications on the internet.
There are only a few days each month when a woman is fertile and charting can help to pin down when these days are most likely to occur …

Anyone who has watched a movie or TV show about someone finding out they are pregnant will know the basics. You pee on a stick, get a positive or negative result and hey presto you know that you are pregnant, but how do they work?
Shortly after fertilisation a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is released. The amount of hCG in the body doubles every two days in pregnant women. This means that the nearer a woman is to her first missed period the more hCG she will have in her …

If you hear people talk about pregnancy calenders they are usually talking about one of three things.
The definition will depend on who you are talking to and the context they use the phrase in.
The three most common meanings are:
 

A calender used for charting your ovulation to determine the best time to make a baby.
A pregnancy wheel used by doctors and midwives to establish your date of conception and estimated date of delivery.
A calender of your pregnancy. You can either make your own or buy one. If you just want to …