Since its beginning, In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) has been surrounded by controversy. It was unnatural. It was unethical. However, when the first child was born in 1978 after many unsuccessful attempts, it was a turning point for the treatment of infertility. Since then more than 5 million people across the globe started out life in a lab. Continue reading
Conceiving a child and procreating is a natural human tendency. Many of us are blessed with children. However, some couples do face obstacles in their journey towards parenthood. Continue reading
Making an effort to kick bad habits before becoming pregnant (or upon discovering you are pregnant!) is truly a selfless act of love for the life you are about to carry within your body. Continue reading
Fertility health is not something women tend to worry about until calamity strikes and they find themselves not being able to conceive. Infertility may sound like a complicated issue, but in many cases, a woman finds it difficult to conceive because she is generally not healthy and has not been eating the right foods. Read on… Continue reading
As beautiful as pregnancy is, not every couple is up for it. Some may choose to remain childless while others may want to plan their pregnancy and have children at a certain time. This is where contraceptives come to play and these may include the use of hormones, devices, or surgery to avoid a pregnancy. Continue reading
The act of preventing conception dates back to thousands of years ago… and with good reason. Think about it — a woman may be fertile right up to the age of forty and unless women generally don’t mind being baby-making machines (and men, fathers to football teams of kids) for the better part of their lives, the desire to control this ability to procreate has and always will be necessary. Continue reading
“The time is always right to do what is right”, “Time waits for no one”, “It takes time to build a castle”.
There are many proverbs about time. One thing for sure, time does fly and we’ve already put the first quarter of 2018 behind us!
When it’s time to make a baby, what every hopeful couple would appreciate the most is an easy conception. How hard can it be? Most of us imagine that some loving action between the sheets would lead to an offspring being born in nine months. Continue reading
As humans, we tend to believe all sorts of ideas and myths and when it comes to pregnancy and birth control, it can be quite blurry as to which are the facts and which are just not true. Let’s see if we can sort some out here… Continue reading
After trying hard, charting out ovulation periods, and having regular sexual intercourse; many couples are still unable to conceive despite not having any medical issues related to their fertility. In fact, over the past couple of decades, fertility problems have increased dramatically, pointing to the possibility that somewhere in this modern lifestyle, something is not right. Continue reading
