Planning your family

Does this only happen in fairytales?

A couple decides to plan a family. They make love. She becomes pregnant immediately and they go on to have a healthy pregnancy and a beautiful baby.

It is most likely that you are reading this website because you have already experienced some difficulties and so to you, this sounds like a fantasy. But this is the way it should be and this is exactly what happened to 200 of the couples who joined our PALS (Pregnancy and lifestyle study) - a unique study of 600 couples who allowed us to follow them through their attempts to have a family. One third of the participants became pregnant the first time they tried and most of these couples had no problems with the pregnancy.

Hopefully if you use the resources available from ez-fertility, you will be able to become one of these lucky couples. However, be warned! The cause of your problem is much more likely to be in your lifestyle than in your genetic makeup. You are likely to have to make several changes in your lifestyle if you are to reach your dream of a healthy, happy baby. It might take you six months or more to correct the mistakes you have been making. You both have to be involved in adopting your healthy lifestyle.

Problems of infertility and miscarriage

Of the 400 couples in the PALS study who took longer than one month to become pregnant, most became pregnant within the next few months. Only 90 had not become pregnant by nine months. There was a strong association between taking longer to become pregnant and having a miscarriage. So sadly, those who tried for longest also had the most risk of miscarriage or other disappointment.

Resources available from ez-fertility.com

Ez-fertility offers you some free advice but most people need to investigate their problems at some depth in order to find the solutions. We offer a number of e-books that address different aspects of infertility, miscarriage and other related problems but the online questionnaire and personal report is a unique tool that usually identifies all the key issues. Answering the questionnaire is by far the quickest and most direct way of identifying all the issues that need to be addressed.

Discussion on this site is listed under the following 20 common fertility topics. Each discussion considers a lifestyle solution if appropriate:

• Blighted ovum

• Congenital abnormality

• Ectopic pregnancies

• Endometriosis

• Genes and infertility

• Genes and miscarriage

• Lifestyle evaluation for a fertile lifestyle

• Male infertility

• Men aged 40 or older

• Miscarriage

• Monosomy

• Ovulation

• Polycystic ovarian syndrome

• Recurrent miscarriage

• Sexual aspects of fertility

• Stress and fertility

• Triploidy

• Trisomy

• Unexplained infertility

• Women aged 35 or older

 

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