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		<title>How To Get Pregnant Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>How To Get Pregnant Fast</strong></p>
<p>Patience is okay with some things, but if you are on the family track and you want to get pregnant NOW, &#8220;patience&#8221; can certainly be a dirty word.</p>
<p>Assuming you have no fertility issues that would require the intervention of a specialist, there are some things you can do that will help ensure your chances of getting pregnant fast &#8212; or at least how to get pregnant faster than would happen if you don&#8217;t do them. Let&#8217;s take a look at them.<br />
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Relax</strong></p>
<p>Okay; easier said than done, right? But really, it&#8217;s been shown that if you&#8217;re uptight about getting pregnant, it might actually hurt your chances of that blessed event happening.</p>
<p><strong>Have fun when… you know</strong></p>
<p>(Hey, there are certain… things you have to do with your honey to get pregnant, and you want to keep those as fun as possible. So if you make THOSE a chore, who wins? Nobody! And you&#8217;ll probably hurt your chances of getting pregnant, too. So lighten up. It&#8217;s supposed to be fun.)</p>
<p><strong>Take folic acid</strong></p>
<p>Folic acid will help ensure that you&#8217;ll have a healthy baby that won&#8217;t have neural tube defects. Start taking it (it&#8217;s usually available in a multivitamin) two to three months before you begin to try to get pregnant.<br />
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Enjoy the afterglow</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t hop right up and go do something else after you make love. Instead, lie there and enjoy the afterglow. You increase your chances of getting pregnant faster, too, since you increase the chances of sperm meeting egg if you just &#8220;let things lie&#8221; for a good five minutes, at least, afterward.<br />
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Do it often</strong></p>
<p>Especially during your fertile period, which is four to five days before you start your period, make love at least every 48 hours or so. (And more is always good, so if you want to, have at it.)<br />
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Cut the caffeine</strong></p>
<p>Yep. Unfortunately, your morning cup of joe may give you a much-needed jolt to get you going for the day, but it also may hurt your chances of getting pregnant. So while you&#8217;re trying, switch to decaf.</p>
<p><strong>Check your prescriptions</strong></p>
<p>Both you and your partner&#8217;s prescriptions may be affecting fertility on both sides &#8212; yours and his. So make sure you visit your respective healthcare practitioner(s) and inform him or her that you&#8217;re trying to get pregnant. He or she can adjust any medications you&#8217;re taking that may be thwarting efforts to get pregnant quickly.</p>
<p><strong>Hygiene is as hygiene does<br />
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If you want to be clean, great, but avoid douching, using scented tampons, or using anything else that&#8217;s going to upset the &#8220;vaginal environment.&#8221; Anything about your vaginal pH or other factors that could be detrimental to sperm health on the way to its destiny, so to speak, is also going to be detrimental to your efforts to get pregnant. So, be careful. (Incidentally, if you and your partner favor using lubricants or other substances during sex, be careful with these, too, since most of these substances can kill sperm. Put those things away for the time being.)</p>
<p>Finally, relax. (I know I said that already, but it bears repeating.) Even if everything else is perfect, getting pregnant is really a statistics game. Most women only have a 25% chance of getting pregnant naturally at any given time during their cycles. So if it doesn&#8217;t happen right away, forget about it for a while. You never know; lots of people have become parents when they just weren&#8217;t expecting to anymore and had &#8220;given up&#8221; trying. So just let nature take its course.</p>

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		<title>Preparing To Get Pregnant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerri</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Preparing To Get Pregnant</strong></p>
<p>When a couple gets engaged the ring sometimes outshines the fiancé. He almost disappears into the shadows because the diamond becomes the focal point of the new chapter in a relationship. The wedding day is almost the same, the groom wears black to either fade into the shadows or become the pepper in the otherwise salty union.</p>
<p>When a couple is preparing to get pregnant the act itself begins to overtake movie night, poker night and Monday night football. Couples who want to get pregnant rarely announce that they are trying, but if you see a guy driving 55mph on the way home from work he is either dreading the arrival to a house full of kids or is thinking about what its going to be like when it does happen.</p>
<p>Men don&#8217;t think about the perils of getting pregnant until their wife says &#8220;I want to get pregnant&#8221;. At that moment our minds start thinking about all the things we will have to give up and also learn how to do, all at the same time. Ladies if you hear the door slam and silence follows just give us a minute to catch our breath.</p>
<p>There are many couples who try for years to get pregnant with no success. It can be the stress of performance for the men or an underlying problem that has to be medically dealt with, men and women approach getting pregnant completely different. Men see it as a way to carry on the family name. Women see it as a way to continue the family.</p>
<p>Pride is a big factor when it comes to getting pregnant; men want a boy to carry on the family name. The thought of a daughter and tea times are not the same as a son and tee times. Women love babies, the smell of them, the feel and touch of an innocent life, women know how to take care of a child. Men just know how to build them.</p>
<p>Men are all thumbs and a few don&#8217;t even want to think about failing at the one thing they are supposed to be really good at, conception. When you try to get pregnant it can seem more like a chore than anything. What used to be unscheduled passion might turn into a to do list and getting pregnant is listed at the top.</p>
<p>From Chinese conception charts to full moons, women have been using some crazy methods to get pregnant. Men know how it all works and even if we can&#8217;t remember a special day on the calendar we know when you want to make a baby. You offer to mow the lawn and let us pick the movie.</p>
<p>Although couples who try to have a baby for years often feel cheated when it doesn&#8217;t happen should look on the bright side. If half your bank account still hasn&#8217;t produced a child then try the sure fire method. How can you get pregnant? A parked car, a back seat and the danger of getting caught has worked for years.</p>

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		<title>How To Get Pregnant Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerri</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Tips on Getting Pregnant </strong></p>
<p>So your biological clock is ticking, or you have found that special guy that you want to start a family and spend the rest of your life. Whatever the reasons, you may feel it&#8217;s that time in your life when you&#8217;re ready to settle down and be a parent.</p>
<p>There are many tips on getting pregnant, and many resources online and through your local health providers. Perhaps the simple and easiest tips for getting pregnant is to have lots and lots of sex. Now remember, though, that male sperm production takes around 48 hours to get counts back up. Other than that you can pretty much have at it!</p>
<p>If you are not sure about what tips on how to get pregnant will work for you a good idea is to do some researching first, since the amount of advice can often be overwhelming. Before you start, it might be a good idea to find out if you can get pregnant in the first place by visiting a fertility clinic. You can see how your eggs are doing, and find out what your lover&#8217;s sperm count is like.</p>
<p>Here are some other tips to get pregnant. Have a preconception check up to check your hormone levels, folic acid amounts as well as check on some prenatal vitamins. Your doctor can also provide a wide range of information and advice. If you have any health problems these can also be addressed and taken care of in preparation for getting pregnant.</p>
<p>Get to know your body and understand what your ovulation cycles are. Each woman is different and ovulation days and length of the cycle are unique to the person. There are definite tips on getting pregnant that your body will give you when it&#8217;s the right time, mucus discharges that are thin and watery, a strange stitch of pain on one side of your body or another, can be clear indications to start having sex.</p>
<p>More tips to get pregnant is to pick up an ovulation test kit. It takes time and you have to start recording from the beginning or your menstrual cycle, and these kits can walk you step by step through the process, to help you find out what time of the month you are the most fertile. Talk to your doctor about which kit may be right for you, since there are some different choices of kits, and brands.</p>
<p>Here is a really good tip for getting pregnant, stop using birth control. It many take up to six month to flush all of the birth control hormones out of your system, so don&#8217;t think you are going to get pregnant the moment you stop using it. It is best not to try to speed up the process by medication, because this may actually deter your ability to get pregnant.</p>
<p>There are so many different tips on getting pregnant that are available, take your time and choose the one that works right for you. You can get help from your doctor, family, and friends you trust. I think one of the biggest ways to get pregnant is to take your time learn about you and your partners sperm and egg levels, and most of all don&#8217;t rush into anything. Many times having sex just to get pregnant won&#8217;t work because it&#8217;s no longer a loving spontaneous act, but a job.</p>
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		<title>Help &#8211; I Can&#8217;t Get Pregnant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerri</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What? You Can&#8217;t Get Pregnant? </strong></p>
<p>It is truly sad that some people who have no problems getting pregnant are often one who shouldn&#8217;t be having kids, and those that would make really good parent, have trouble getting pregnant, or worse yet, can&#8217;t get pregnant at all. It really isn&#8217;t fair since there are so many examples where kids are abused and neglected, and end up in the welfare system.</p>
<p>If you are asking yourself, why can&#8217;t I get pregnant, there may be a number of reasons. A sickness or accident at a early age, hereditary problems, age and health concerns are just some of the many factors. It could even be that your partner&#8217;s sperm count is low, and there fore you have trouble getting pregnant. For whatever the reason, the first thing you need to do is find out if you can.</p>
<p>A good way to find out why you are having trouble getting pregnant, is to go to a fertility clinic with you and your spouse or significant other. There is a variety of different tests that can be performed on both of you to find out what the problems may be. It may sound expensive at first, but it can be less costly than wasting your money on pregnancy tests and fertility pills and procedures.</p>
<p>You may find out that your spouse has a low sperm count, and that can be helped with supplements that will help build up his counts. If you find that the trouble getting pregnant is because your body isn&#8217;t releasing enough eggs, or they are weakened somehow from a sickness or something, then that can also be corrected in most cases through fertility drugs. If you choose to go this route be warned though, sometimes fertility drugs can backfire, and you end up getting pregnant with multiple babies at one time.</p>
<p>If you find out that you can&#8217;t get pregnant, while it is a very sad thing, know that you aren&#8217;t alone, and there are many ways to have children without getting actually pregnant. One way is through an adoption agency, and there are many reputable agencies available to help. You could try a surrogate mother, one who would be willing to be impregnated at a clinic with your husband or boy friends sperm. It is a delicate process with many variables to consider.</p>
<p>Other couples who find they can&#8217;t get pregnant may also consider being a foster parent. This program is designed to place children in temporary homes until they are able to go home, or end up either being adopted or waiting it out until their eighteen. Being a foster parent allows you to provide this temporary home for kids in a safe and warm environment, something the may have never experienced before.</p>
<p>Some of the advantages of being a foster parent, is that you are showing the child you care for a better way of life, even if it is just temporary. You can choose what age groups you are willing to take care of, from infants to adolescents. You can also choose short or long term foster parenting, and you get paid for taking care of the child. Most foster parents don&#8217;t really care about the money, but every little bit helps.</p>
<p>There is plenty of information and resources on all the things that have been mentioned, and one of the best ways is through the internet. You can find adoption agencies, surrogate mothers and foster parent programs.</p>
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