How To Increase Fertility In Women is a common question our doctors get every day from their patients. One in Four couples now find it difficult to conceive and a quarter of all pregnancies can end in a miscarriage and more and more couples are turning to fertility treatments to help them have a family.

A lot of times when trying to “fix” something in the body we tend to segment it and focus only on the “symptoms” or problems occurring. When it comes to true healing, health and fertility, we can not look at the body like that anymore. Especially when it comes to fertility! There are so many systems, feedback loops, hormonal signals and organs that all have to work together, that “treating” one symptom is not the most effective approach.

Up to a third of cases of infertility are classed as unexplained which means if there are no medical issues, changing everyday things about your lifestyle may just make the difference.

Check your weight regularly

If you are at a normal healthy weight you may have a better chance of falling pregnant. That’s having a body mass index ( BMI) of between 18.5 and 24.9.

Anything over BMI 25 is classed as overweight and a BMI of over 30 is defined as obese. Being significantly under- or overweight can negatively affect your fertility. Women who are underweight—with a body mass index (BMI) lower than 19 Kg/M2—take four times as long to get pregnant as women in the normal range (19 to 24 Kg/M2). On the other hand, women who are overweight may have insulin resistance, meaning that too much insulin circulates in the body, disrupting menstruation.

Eat healthy

The benefits of a healthy diet shouldn’t be underestimated when you are trying for a baby. You should be eating a balanced diet containing all of the food groups.

Food and nutrients are very important. Women know a lot about diets and not so much about nutrition. You need carbs for energy and don’t eat processed food because it depletes the body of nutrients.”

Always have breakfast which is key to controlling your sugar levels and have a broad spectrum of vitamins and minerals in your diet and include Omega 3 fatty acids.

Exercise in moderation

Exercise is a great stress reliever so it’s fine to do moderate physical exercise when you’re trying for a baby. Exercise is beneficial as long as it’s not too extreme.

Get good sleep

Ensuring you both get enough sleep may be important when you are trying to boost your fertility. Aim for seven to eight hours a night. The link maybe the hormone leptin. Leptin levels fall when we are tired. Researchers have now found that in some infertile women leptin levels are low.

Try to keep your cool

Sperm develops best in cool surroundings. Men who sit with computers on their laps can have reduced fertility levels.

Men should also avoid long, hot baths. One study found that switching to cool showers increases sperm production by five times. Also swap tight pants for roomier boxer shorts.

Be a cleaning queen

Women who do the housework, gardening or other forms of moderate exercise are three times more likely to conceive through IVF than those with sedentary lives, according to research by the University of North Carolina in the US.

Exercise stops the body producing excessive insulin, which is thought to harm the development of healthy eggs.

Add multivitamins and minerals to your diet

Begin (or continue) taking either a one-a-day type multivitamin or a prenatal vitamin containing folic acid. During the earliest weeks of pregnancy, before you may even realize you’re pregnant, the embryo’s neural tubes (the earliest version of the brain and spinal column) develop. Taking a supplement that contains folic acid will reduce the chance of defects.

Stay calm

You’ve heard it before but yes, you should work to manage your stress. Stress can increase levels of cortisol [the so-called stress hormone], which can temporarily shut down your reproductive system. And, of course, stress can also affect your relationship with your partner, making intimacy more difficult.

Have sex!

Chances of conception rise from 15% for couples having sex once a week to 50% for couples having sex three to four times a week. Sex keeps sperm healthy. Its quality falls if it’s retained in the body for more than three days.

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Our doctors have helped more than 2450 couples globally to parent a child who experienced difficulty in conceiving, many of them with failed IUI, IVF and ICSI. You can discuss with our doctors to understand about our specialty homeopathy treatment and to know if you need any treatment at all to get pregnant.

Read the post multiple times and try to apply as many of the tips as you can, as these tips have been proven to increase fertility in women.

It’s possible to get the feeling that you’re pregnant soon after you’ve conceived. So you may experience early pregnancy symptoms just two weeks after conception. The symptoms can vary a lot depending on your individual body and can be confusing.

You may feel a prickling or tingling sensation in your breasts, particularly around your nipples. It happens because pregnancy hormones increase the blood supply to your breasts.

Know the most common 15 initial signs of pregnancy:

1. Swollen and tender breasts

Soreness or tingling in breasts is one of pregnancy’s most common symptoms. Early in pregnancy breasts will fill out and change shape as they prepare to produce milk. Breasts may become very tender and sensitive for a few months as a result. But, Teresa Pitman, doula and lactation expert, notes: “that not all women experience these changes, especially if they have been on birth control pills.”

It is possible to know you’re pregnant in those first few weeks—some women even “know” from the moment of conception. Here are the very earliest pregnancy signs, that you might tnot notice.

2. Darkening areolas

For many women, hormones can cause the areolas, the circles around nipples, to widen and darken during pregnancy. This occurs as the body prepares itself for breastfeeding.

3. Spotting

About five to 10 days after conception, some women notice light spotting when the embryo implants in the uterus. So if you’ve had a light period this month, you might still be carrying a little bundle of joy—psst, here’s what you need to know about home pregnancy tests, including when it’s best to take one.

4. Urinary frequency 

When you’re pregnant, your uterus presses directly on the bladder leading to more frequent urination. The added pressure and intestinal changes may also cause constipation. Of course, the more a baby grows, the more the uterus presses against the bladder and other organs.

5. Fatigue

Many women feel very tired early in pregnancy (it takes lots of energy to create a baby!). In fact, fatigue is often one of the first signs of pregnancy. If you are pregnant, chances are you’ll start to feel less tired around week 12, when the placenta is fully formed.

6. Nausea

Nausea is one of the most common side effects of pregnancy. It’s caused by an increase in hormone levels (about 80 percent of women experience “morning sickness” during the first 3 months of pregnancy). For many, this nausea is not necessarily confined just to the morning – some feel it all day long. Click here for all the facts on morning sickness.

7. Headaches

Early in pregnancy, increased blood circulation caused by hormonal changes may trigger frequent, mild headaches.

8.Constipation

Constipation is another common early symptom of pregnancy. An increase in progesterone causes food to pass more slowly through the intestines, which can lead to constipation.

9.Mood swings

The flood of hormones in your body in early pregnancy can make you unusually emotional and weepy. Mood swings also are common, especially in the first trimester.

10.Faintness and dizziness

As your blood vessels dilate and your blood pressure drops, you may feel lightheaded or dizzy. Early in pregnancy, faintness also may be triggered by low blood sugar.

11. Headaches

The frequency of migraine headaches can increase with pregnancy. Many women who get hormonal migraine headaches find they get more of them during especially early in pregnancy, explains Pitman. However, some people have the opposite experience and actually get a little reprieve from migraines while expecting.

12. Feeling faint or dizzy

Shifting hormones, combined with the heart beating faster to pump more blood through the body can cause blood pressure to gradually decrease early in pregnancy. As a result many women experience periods of dizziness or feeling lightheaded.

13. Metallic taste in your mouth

Some women complain of an odd “metallic” taste in their mouths during pregnancy. While there is no scientific explanation for this symptom, for some it can last throughout their entire pregnancy.

14. Vivid dreams

Dreams during pregnancy often intensify. So if your dreamin’ has become more dramatic this could be a symptom you’re expecting. (Thank your surging hormones for this one!)

15. Bloating

Having trouble buttoning your jeans? Early pregnancy bloating is hard to distinguish from pre-period bloat, but it’s definitely something you’ll feel early on (for most women, that is). You can’t blame that puffy ate-too-much feeling on your baby yet, but you can blame it on the hormone progesterone, which helps slow down digestion, giving the nutrients from foods you eat more time to enter your bloodstream and reach your baby.

So if you think you are pregnant, rush to your closest Welling Clinic or contact us through the contact form to know more about our speciality prenatal treatment to prevent pregnancy complication & promote a disease-free healthy baby through safe and gentle Homeopathy treatment.

For reference more reading:

• http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/symptoms-of-pregnancy/art-20043853
  http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a25007925/pregnancy-signs-at-two-weeks
  http://www.babycentre.co.uk/top-10-signs-of-pregnancy
  http://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/early-symptoms-of-pregnancy.aspx
  http://www.kidspot.com.au/birth/pregnancy/signs-and-symptoms/first-symptoms-of-pregnancy-what-happens-right-away

So you are planning to get pregnant. Congrats and welcome to the most beautiful time of your life. It is important to undertake some preparation to increase your chances of a healthy pregnancy and that you enjoy your pregnancy. Also some preparation is important for conceiving faster and delivering a healthy baby. 

Below are the 8 most important points to remember even before you start planning for a pregnancy.

Stop the contraceptive pill

This is the first major step to be taken if you are planning to conceive anytime soon. And not just one month or two month before. As commonly it takes more than 6 months to 9 months before your hormones come to normal and your reproductive system start working normally. Though the contraceptive pills are largely safe now, but still it may take some time before your can conceive naturally. So it would be wise, if you can leave off the contraceptive pills atleast 6 months before you plan to conceive.

Stop partying

Second most important thing to do is to stop partying completely if you wish to conceive naturally. There is not one but four major reasons to stop partying. Its safe to stop any type of alcohol smoking & drugs if you wish to get pregnant, prevent miscarriage and have a healthy baby. Smoking cigarettes, even socially, can affect your egg quality and your hubby’s sperm — not to mention increase your risk of birth defects, miscarriage, preterm labor, and other conditions after you become pregnant. It’s estimated that up to 13 percent of fertility problems may be caused by tobacco use

There can be no compromise on these. You will get varying views on these from different sources about the quantity of alcohol and frequency of smoking allowed while planning and during pregnancy. Buy you owe it to your baby to give it a healthy environment to grown in. If at all, you conceive while on alcohol or smoke, its very unlikely that you would ever deliver a healthy baby.

Stoping to party will also allow a good night sleep. 7-8 hours of sleep is very much necessary for normal working of your reproductive system.

Control weight

Third most important thing to do is to control your weight. Now if you are suffering from thyroid issues or PCOS, there are high chances that you may not loose a lot of weight. But it can not be stressed enough that you should cut on carbohydrates, dietary products and refined sugar. Brisk walking three times a week is enough for a healthy weight and natural conceiving. Controlling weight also helps in improving all metabolic activity of your body and this help in improving other body functions.

Start supplements

You may need some supplements during your pregnancy, but there are few nutritional supplements that are required for conceiving naturally. Most important being Folate ( Folic Acid ) & Iron. Folate is crucial for the development of the baby’s ‘neural tube’, the part that becomes the baby’s brain, spinal cord and surrounding bones. This neural tube is formed and closed in the first four to six weeks of pregnancy. Given that most women do not actually discover they are pregnant until at least six weeks of pregnancy, it is important not to wait until then to take the supplements.  Iron supplements are most required for women from Indian sub-continent. Your doctor would be able to prescribe right quantity of supplements for you and any additional supplements that you may need. During pregnancy you may need calcium and Vitamin D3 supplements. But its not yet clear if they help in natural conceiving. Along with these, checking your free thyroid hormones and TSH is also important and starting appropriate thyroid replacement medication if required.

Iodine supplementation is also important since the thyroid gland requires iodine to make thyroid hormones, which are essential for the development of the baby’s brain and nervous system both before and after birth.

Getting enough of this B vitamin before and early on in pregnancy can reduce brain and spine birth defects by up to 70 percent.

Visit a doctor for check-up

A general check-up from your family physician is very important before you plan your conceiving. Your doctor can assess you, talk through any particular concerns you may have as well as organise appropriate tests and vaccinations. Your doctor can check your immunity to such infections as rubella and varicella (chicken pox). If you (or your partner) have any family history of heritable or genetic diseases that might affect your future offspring, now might be a good time to discuss these with your GP who can, when appropriate, refer you to a genetic counsellor or geneticist.

A regular physical can help ensure he has no chronic conditions or is taking medications that may affect sperm count or cause other fertility problems.)

De-stress

Catch as many movies on the big screen as you can. Once you’re pregnant, sitting still in the same position for a couple of hours — combined with having to pee constantly — can get uncomfortable. Having crazy-high stress levels can delay your ability to get pregnant (by making ovulation wacky, or by interfering with an embryo’s ability to implant in the uterus). 

Visit your dentist

More and more research links oral health to a healthy pregnancy; women with unchecked gum disease are more prone to miscarriage, preterm birth, and preeclampsia. Having your teeth examined now gives you time to get gingivitis (inflammation of the gums) under control and get x-rays (which should be avoided during pregnancy) if you need them.

Plan mentally, visualise.

Now is the time to plan mentally and visualise how you are going to spend you pregnancy and first few years after your baby comes in this world. Plan your job,plan the place you would stay. Getting settled — ideally, somewhere you want to be for at least a couple of years — and feeling good about your home will help you feel more prepared for pregnancy. It’s nice not to have to deal with moves, renovations, lawyers, and closings once you’re pregnant (no one wants to be packing at 8 months along).

Visualising plays a very important part in conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy. Just visualise how you plan to spend time with your child and how you would make it fun for your new born.

You can visit one of our Welling clinics to meet our experts for any clarification or any advise before you plan to get pregnant. We have speciality treatment to help you with healthy pregnancy so that you deliver a healthy baby.