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The Cycle Daily
Take a journey through 28 detailed days filled with information about what happens in a woman's body each day of the cycle as she tries to conceive.

The iParenting Fertility Quiz
These days, fertility is a hot topic. But as with all hot topics, misinformation can be mixed in with the real truth. Test yourself in our quiz.

The Acronym and Abbreviation Guide
Are the board members baffling you with acronyms like "AF" and "CD#3?" Is one of the diary writers having a IUI and you don't know what that is? Find the definitions here.

Caffeine Calculator
Find out how much caffeine you consume in a day. It's good to know, especially if you're pregnant, breastfeeding or trying to conceive.

Chinese Conception Chart
This ancient chart claims to help couples choose the sex of their baby by using the mother's age and the conception month. Try it for fun!

Download Blank Fertility Charts
If you're tracking your basal body temperature and cervical fluid changes, you'll need a fertility chart. Download as many as you need!

Home Pregnancy Test Sensitivity Comparison Table
Find out which pregnancy tests are the most sensitive.

Ovulation Calculator
Tell us the date of your last menstrual period, and we'll tell you when you could be most fertile during the next three months. This tool also tells you when a baby conceived during any of these cycles would be due, and which celebrities and notables could share your baby's birthday!

The Preconception Glossary
Want to know what "zygote" means? What's "Clomid" and why do some people with "anovulation" take it? Learn the preconception terms here.

Alternative Family Building
Adoption: Where Do I Start? A National Adoption Information Clearinghouse Fact Sheet
All about Birth Mothers: Learning About Those Who Give up Their Children for Adoption
Domestic Adoption: Building a Family
Building a Family Through Surrogate Parenting Series
Donor Egg & Sperm: A Family-Building Alternative for the Infertile
Ending Infertility Treatment: Coming to Terms With Not Becoming a Biological Parent
Family Models for a New Age: Family-Building for Gay and Lesbian Parents
Foster Care and Adoption for Waiting Children: A question and answer from the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
Going Solo: A Basic Look at the Pursuit of Single Motherhood
A Good Egg or Sperm
A Happy Ending: Our Adoption Experience?
Great Expectations: Managing Surrogacy Relationships
International Adoption Series
Making Your Dream Come True: The Same-sex Couple's Guide to Surrogacy
Praying for Snow, Aunt Eleonore and a Healthy Son: A Religious Perspective on Adoption
Pregnancy Outside the Box: A Surrogate Journey
The Price of Parenthood: Financing Adoption
Seven Days to a Miracle: A Story of Adoption
Single Parent Adoption: What You Need to Know: A National Adoption Information Clearinghouse Fact Sheet
Transracial Adoption: Parent's Wish List and Child's Bill of Rights
Transracial Adoption Series
Will YOU Have My Baby? A Surrogacy Q&A With Sharon LaMothe

Conditions Affecting Conception and Pregnancy
Controlling Diabetes Before Conception
The Embarrassing Truth: Conception Facts You Need to Know But Are Too Afraid to Ask
Fertile Hope: Helping Cancer Patients Maintain Fertility
Fertility and Disabilities: A Profile of Dr. Mitchell S. Tepper
From Mood Swings to Baby Swings: Clinical Depression and Conception
From Tragedy to Triumph: Fighting for Fertility During Serious Health Issues
Frozen in Time: You Can Preserve and Prolong Fertility
Luteal Phase Defect: How It Affects Fertility
Making Sense of PCOS
Motherhood and Mental Health: Finding a Healthy Balance
Never Say Never: Planning Pregnancy With a Chronic Health Condition
PCOS: A Woman's Guide to Dealing with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Positive Pregnancy: 10 Things in and Around Your Home That Can Hamper Parenthood
Public Problem; Private Suffering: The Issue of DES Daughters
The Right Way to Get Pregnant: By William Grigg and the National Institute of Environmental Health Science
Seeds of Hope: Lubrication for Couples Trying to Conceive
The Skinny on Weight While Trying to Conceive
SOS for PCOS: Live a Healthy Lifestyle
Too Thin To Conceive: How Anorexia Impacts Fertility
Too Toxic to Conceive: Is Your Lifestyle to Blame?
Women's Health and the Environment: A Factsheet From the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
A Weighty Issue: Conception for the Overweight
When Life is a Pain: The Facts on Endometriosis

Considering Pregnancy
Agitating for Change: Maternity Leave Is Important to Everyone
Quiz: Are You Ready to Try to Conceive?
Are You Too Young to Be a Parent?
Baby Battles: When He Doesn't Want a Child
Baby Talk: How You Approach the Subject Matters
Building Bridges to Conception: Vasectomy Reversal
Butt Out: When Family and Friends Want Control Over Your Reproductive Future
Considering Pregnancy Later in Life
Considering Religion: How Will You Raise Kids?
The Crystal Ball for Parents-To-Be: A Review of Don't You Dare Have Kids Until You Read This!
Decisions, Decisions: Which Conception Path is Right for You?
Freebies!
Go for It! 9 Reasons Why Now Is a Great Time to Have a Baby
I Want Another, He Doesnt: 3 Steps to Coping
It's in the Genes: Genetic Testing
Money, Marriage and Medicine: Some Things to Think About Before You Conceive
Motherhood Reborn: Tubal Ligation Reversal
Mulling Over Motherhood: Do You Really Want to Be a Mom?
Physician or Friend: Can Your Doctor Be Both?
Pregnant Pause: Take the Time to Understand Fertility Facts
Quiz: Ready, Set, Get Pregnant!
Too Scared to Conceive: When Your Fears Are Holding You Back
What You Should Know Before You Conceive
When He Won't Change: Why Your Partner's Health is Crucial to a Healthy Pregnancy
When the Pressure Gets Tough: Working Things Out Now Before You Conceive

Diagnosed Infertility Issues
Acupuncture and Infertility
All I Want for Christmas: Coping with Infertility During the Holidays
Caffeine and Infertility: Is There A Connection?
Clomid for Christmas: Surviving Medical Treatments During the Holidays
Dollars & Sense of Infertility Treatment
Global Infertility: Experiences in Other Countries
Holiday Family Gatherings and Infertility: Creating a Balance
The Infertility Marketplace Series
Male Factor Infertility
Mind Over "Matter": Infertility, Medicine and the Mind/Body Connection
The Price of Parenthood: 4 Steps to Financing Fertility
Truth Be Told: Uncovering Common Infertility Myths
No More Periods: Understanding Premature Ovarian Failure
Overcoming Infertility: A Compassionate Resource for Getting Pregnant
Secondary Infertility: Could it Happen to You?
Antisperm Antibodies: The Myths, the Truths and the Treatments of Sperm Allergies

Early Pregnancy
Answers to Your Pregnancy Test Questions
Early Pregnancy: What You Should Know
Home Pregnancy Test Basics
How Will You Know You're Pregnant?
Jumping the Gun: Premature Home Pregnancy Testing
Colds and Conception: Nothing to Sneeze About
When Dreams Come True: Coping With Pregnancy After Infertility
Your Attention Please: Creative Ways to Announce a Pregnancy

Essays
Best of Both Worlds? Why I am Choosing Homebirth Before Conception
Children Lost, But Not Forgotten
Crueler Than Hope: Handling the Disappointments of Trying to Conceive
Egg Day: Taking the Next Step Toward Conception
The House is Quiet: Loving My Niece While Waiting My Turn at Parenthood
I Will Never Forget
Learning the Lingo
Life to Music: Whats the Soundtrack of Your Journey?
"Mark!" One Man's Story of Fertility Success
My Daughter is in China: Our Decision to Adopt
My Turn Again? Life After Stillbirth and Miscarriage
Oh the People You Meet ... When You're Trying to Conceive
Party of Five? In Search of the Perfect Family
Perfectly Positive: After Years of Infertility, A Couple Digests Wonderful News
Strong Enough: One Woman's Brush with Surrogacy
Taking a Different Path Toward Motherhood
They're Too What? One Man Shares His Reaction to a Diagnosis of Varicoceles
To My Child
Why Can't I Have a Flower on Mother's Day?

Gender Selection and Family Dynamics
The Art and Science of Child Spacing
The Boy-Girl Baby Blues: Is a Sex Preference Normal?
Boy or Girl: Dont Leave It All to Chance
Boy or Girl: Should You Choose the Sex of Your Child?
Assisted Sex Selection: High-Tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender
Low-Tech Ways to Choose Your Baby's Gender
Maybe Another Baby
One and Only: How to Know When and If You Should Try for Another Child

Health
At Your Cervix: A Lifetime of Cervical Health
Herbal Supplements: Consider Safety, Too: From the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
Time to Talk: Make the Most of Your Doctor's Visits
What Does It Do? A Reproductive Primer
Yeast Infections: Treatment and Prevention of a Common Condition

Humor
Infertility Sniglets
Preconception Humor
The Pregnancy Challenge

Improving Your Chances of Conceiving
10 Myths About Conceiving
Achieving Pregnancy: Ten Tips for Men
Baby Steps: A 5-point Plan to Help You Conceive
Beyond Chinese Medicine and Fertility: An Ancient Discipline
Beyond Contraceptives to Conceive: A Contradictory Success Story
Eight Ways to Help Improve Male Fertility
Fertility Boosters: 6 Things You Might Have Overlooked
Fertility Folklore Fun
Get to the Point: Can Acupuncture Help You Conceive?
Organic Conception: Using Nature to Boost Your Fertility
Quiz: Fertility Fact or Fiction?
The Lowdown on Low Carb Eating: Your Fertility May Benefit
Ultrasounds: Worth a Thousand Words
Upping the Odds: Doing Your Best to Conceive
Six Months to Conception: A Practical Five-Step Plan Toward Pregnancy
Six Ways to Help Improve Female Fertility
Trouble Conceiving? Get the Right Medical Care
Uterine Factors: How Abnormalities of the Uterus Contribute to Infertility
Who's Who? An Infertility Starting Lineup
Worried About Conceiving? Simple Changes Can Increase Your Chances of Conception

Miscarriage
Dr. Benson Discusses Miscarriage
Ectopic Pregnancy
Finding a Link: Stress and Miscarriage
Made to Miscarry: Thyroid Autoimmunity and Miscarriage
Men and Miscarriage: Making Sense of the Situation
Miscarriage and the Millennium
Peaceful Pregnancy: How Progesterone Helps
Pregnancy After Loss: Are You Ready to Try Again?
Pregnancy After Miscarriage: The Ups and Downs of Trying Again
A Sister's Shoulder: Helping a Friend Survive Miscarriage
Trying Again
Understanding Pregnancy Loss:
Blighted Ovum and Chemical Pregnancy
When a Miscarriage Isn't Nature's Way
You've Had a Miscarriage: What Now?

Personal and Couple Time
7 Sexy Secrets: Make Conception Fun
Creating Memories: How to Capture the Essence of Your Last Child-free Year
"Dear Sandra..."
How to Cope With a Friend's Pregnancy
When You're Struggling with Infertility
Do We Have to Have Sex? Managing Female Sexual Dysfunction
How's Your Sex Life? Great Sex Matters When You're Trying to Conceive
Quiz: Is Your Marriage Baby Proof?
Keeping the Love Alive When You're Trying to Conceive
Relationship Top 10s
Rescuing Romance: Your Marriage Doesn't Have to Fizzle
Taking it Easy (When Trying to Conceive)

Preparing for Pregnancy
Before Baby: Choosing Breastfeeding Before You Conceive
Folic Acid: A Vital Part of Preconception
Health Check! Preventive Medicine Before You Conceive
Healthy Eating During Preconception
How to Kick the Smoking Habit
Low Carb Crazy: Bad News for Baby?
Multiple Pregnancy: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Not the Way Nature Intended? How Your Birth Control Affects Your Fertility
An Ounce of Prevention: Be Wise About Birth Defects Before Conception
Planning a High Risk Pregnancy
Planning for Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
Preconception Visits: Working With Your Doctor
Preparing for Pregnancy at Age 35 and Older
Ready, Set, Conceive! Preconception Planning for a Healthy Pregnancy
Sharing the Experience: When Friends Plan Pregnancies Together
Tips to Safeguard Your Fertility
Wanting a Baby? Get Your Weight Under Control Now

Special Features
Adventurous Conceptions!
The Once in a Millennium Baby

Tracking Your Fertility
The Art of Tracking Your Fertility
Infertility FAQ
Fertility Awareness: What You Should Know and Why You Probably Don't
It's About Time! Knowing the Best Time to Conceive
The Power of Prediction: How Ovulation Testers Can Help
Predicting Ovulation Using Saliva: A Review of the Ovulite Fertility Test
Temperature Rising: Should You "Temp" for Fertility Signs?

Trouble Getting Pregnant
An At-Home "Sample": Testing for Sperm Concentration in the Privacy of Your Home
Be a Wise Consumer in the Booming Fertility Industry
Beyond Blood Tests and Hormone Levels: What to Expect From Invasive Infertility Diagnosis and Treatment
Choosing Assisted Reproduction: Social Emotional and Ethical Considerations
Clomid: Is this Fertility Drug Right for You?
Conception After Adoption: Is There a Connection?
Embryo Adoption
Expecting Miracles: On the Path of Hope from Infertility to Parenthood
The Facts to Relax: Coping With the Stress of Infertility
Failing Fatherhood: How Men Handle Infertility
Fertility and Flexibility: Yoga When You're Trying to Conceive
Fertility Drugs: Are They Right For You?
Fertility Success Story
Flossing for Fertility: Oral Health When You're Trying to Conceive
Healing the Mind, Healing the Body: An Interview With Helen Adrienne, MSW, ACSW, BCD
Helping Hands: Groups That Navigate the Infertility Roller Coaster
Herbs for Infertility: Do You Know Your Options?
Herbs to Avoid: The Other Side of the Story
High Tech Babies Series
Hope in a Bottle: Finding Fertility Success With Non-Fertility Medications
I Think I Can: Mental Health and Conception
It's Been a Year: Now What?
Little Cup-'o'-Phobia: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Cup?
Making Adjustments: Infertility and the Chiropractic Link Cup?
The No Baby Blues: Infertility and Depression
Old Sperm Die Hard: Age and Male Fertility
The Overseas Connection: A Trip Across the Ocean May Solve Fertility Problems
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ensuring Your Baby's Health
Self-insemination: A Private Conception Alternative
Sharing the Struggle: Should You or Shouldn't You?
Supporting Your Spouse: A Male Perspective on IVF
Talking About Infertility: Telling Family and Friends
TESE and MESA: Hope for Men Battling Infertility
To Pick and Choose: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
To the Point: Acupuncture for Conception
Try, Try Again: When It's Your Second Attempt at IVF
TTC with Irregular Cycles
Visiting the Reproductive Endocrinologist: What to Expect the First Time
When is it Time to See an Infertility Specialist?
Celebrity Profiles
Denise Austin
Lauralee Bell
Jaime Bergman
Josie Bissett
Brooke Burke
Jenny Crawford Moluf
Ann Crittenden
Kassie DePaiva
Doug Flutie
Anne Geddes
Leeza Gibbons
Leisa Hart
Bruce Jenner
Alexander Julian
Kathy Kaehler
Nancy Kerrigan