When you are pregnant, you should avoid any sports where you might fall. For example, skiing, water skiing, horse riding, squash, and etc. For the first 12 weeks, you should avoid any exercise that makes you overheat. Whatever exercise you do, you... (read more)

Exercise can help your body to adjust to the changes imposed by pregnancy (e.g. Increasing bump) and preparing you for labour. It can also help you to avoid constipation, swollen ankles, varicose veins, backache and etc. While most pregnant women benefit... (read more)

Basically you should avoid any food that can cause food poison or harm your unborn baby. Because of the potential risk of causing listeriosis, you should avoid all soft, mould ripened cheese such as Brie, blue Brie, Cambozola, Chaumes, Camembert, etc;... (read more)

During pregnancy, your body absorbs iron more efficiently, so it's important to take more iron to ensure that you and your baby are getting enough oxygen. The U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance (USRDA) of iron for pregnant women is 30 mg per day. The... (read more)

Walnuts, flaxseeds, beans, oily fish, olive oil and winter squash are rich in omega 3 fatty acids. You easily incorporate these foods into your meal by adding walnuts and flaxseeds into salads, baked potatoes or granola. Having salmon, scallops, halibut,... (read more)

Eating five portions of fruits and vegetables a day is not as difficult as you think. You can easily have your 5 a day by adding fresh fruits to your cereal in the morning; drinking fresh fruit juice, snacking on carrot sticks during the day, adding an... (read more)

Only in the last three months of pregnancy, you need to increase your daily calorie intake from 2000 to 2200 calories. The idea of eating for two means getting a healthy and balanced diet, not doubling the amount. You can obtain the extra 200 calories... (read more)

There are two types of twins: Identical twins and fraternal twins (i.e. Non-identical). Identical twins are formed when one egg splits into two after being fertilised by a sperm. Identical twins are developed from two halves of the same fertilised... (read more)

The normal range of a healthy man's sperm is 35 to 200 million per millilitre of sperm. If you have none or lower amount of sperm, you may have trouble conceiving. Poor sperm quality are also one of the common causes of infertility, which includes sperms... (read more)

While in countries like the UK, scientific methods of sex are only legal for medical purpose, you can still try some natural methods. Timing sex is one of the most popular methods. If you want a boy, do not have sex for 2-3 days before ovulation,... (read more)

Every egg and sperm contains 23 chromosomes. Each egg has one X chromosome while every sperm has either one X chromosome or Y chromosome. The sex of a baby is determined by where the sperm that fertilises the egg carries the X or Y chromosome. If the... (read more)

PGD is abbreviation of Pre-implanation Genetic Diaanosis. It is a procedure for testing the genetic makeup of very early embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and involves removing a cell from the developing embryo conceived IVF to identify... (read more)

The Council of Europe's 1997 Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine states that "techniques may not be used to choose a future child's sex, except where serious hereditary sex-related disease is to be avoided". Out of the European Council's 41 member... (read more)

It depends which country you are in. In the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, more babies are conceived in November than in any other month, which makes August the month in which most babies are born in those countries. However,... (read more)

Normally, your midwife will give you an estimate date of delivery, which is shorten as EDD. Your EDD is 40 weeks from the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP). Note it's NOT from the day you think you conceived. Only 5% of pregnant women give... (read more)

Since it is almost impossible to predict how long it will take you to conceive, it is very difficult to time your pregnancy. Every couple is different,... (read more)

The key to getting pregnant fast is to have sex at least every 48 hours during your fertile period. This ensures that there are plenty of sperm available whenever there is an egg ready to be fertilised. It may also help to stay in bed a while after sex.... (read more)

Sperms swim at 2-3 mm per minute. It seems to be not a lot, but considering the size of sperm (around 0.05mm long), it is still amazing, i.e., 40-60 times their length per minute. Each sperm consists of three parts: A head, a middle piece, and a tail,... (read more)

Check the discharges from your vagina. If it looks like egg white and is starchy, you are very likely ovulating. When you are ovulating, your body temperature will be slightly lower than when you are having period. Read this question - How do I find out... (read more)

There are several ways to work out the exact time of ovulation. First, is to keep a calendar. Note your period starting date and finishing date. If your cycle is straightforward, i.e. 28-day cycle, the ovulation day is most likely to be on day 14, i.e.... (read more)