Winter is not a very good time for planning and conceiving children. That is what many moms and dads think. After all, it is during this time that the levels of prolactin are elevated in the woman's body. Prolactin is a hormone that suppresses sexual desire and inhibits the ovaries. Full story

LeAnn Rimes has to keep fighting off pregnancy rumors even into 2012. Her Twitter followers seem to be expecting her to bear Eddie Cibrian’s baby practically any day now, and she has to tell them to hold their horses time and time again. Full story

If your family dreams of having children, you should pay attention to such factors as your husband's diet. The experts say that sperm quality can greatly increase the chances of vconception, and to improve its quality, one should follow certain rules of healthy eating. Full story

It has been finally proved that it is not only women, who should be hasty in the question of conception and pregnancy. The stronger sex has the same problem. Their biological clock also says tick-tock. Full story

The doctors call the weight, which is far from the norm, one of the factors that prevent conception. However, scientists have found that extreme thinness does more harm to our fertility than obesity. Full story

The health of the future baby is determined by not only what the mother eats during pregnancy, but her diet long before conception as well. Full story

The Australian scientists have found that the girls, who are planning to get pregnant, must be especially careful maintaining oral hygiene in order to increase the likelihood of successful conception. Full story

The team of scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have found that disorders of the immune system may be the cause of problems with conception. Full story

The scientists from the University of St Andrews and Edinburgh University (UK) have managed to explain why women have more difficulties with getting pregnant as they get older. It turns out that by the age of 30 years 90% of women’s ovarian reserve is already exhausted. Full story

Does sexual position influence the possibility of conceiving a child? Can a woman get pregnant faster if she takes aspirin? Is it true that one should abstain from sex for three days before conception? These and other questions about getting pregnant will be answered by Geniuspregnancy.com below. Full story

It was revealed during the experiment, conducted among Israeli patients in the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), that a 15-minute encounter with a professional “medical clown” increased the chances of getting pregnant up to 36%, compared with the women who did not meet the clown. Full story

The scientists have made a startling announcement: antioxidants can be the cause of sterility. The reason is that nowadays these substances are being added everywhere: into food products, beverages and even into make-up. However, the final impact of antioxidants on the human organism has not been studied yet. The most widespread antioxidants are well-known to people vitamins C and E. Full story

Are you ready to become a mother? If your answer to this is yes, then you should know when to take full advantage for a proper conception and trying to give your pregnancy a healthy start. Full story

When babies come into the world naturally, we generally have 105 boys for every 100 girls. That goes to counterbalance the percentage of fatality that appears to be higher for male babies, both unborn and born. Full story

It's not just overweight women who may face conception problems. According to Australian scientists, desired pregnancy may not be reached due to a man’s weight. It was the first evidence of how a man’s weight is linked to fertility problems. Full story

Arkansas woman got pregnant while pregnant, according to MSNBC. The expectant mom Julia Grovenburg from Fort Smith had the appointment for scheduled ultrascan. While doing the test, obstetrician observed the heartbeat of a second fetus, at earlier stage of development. According to specialist, a boy fetus was conceived two weeks later than his "older sister". Both fetuses attached inside the womb and began growing normally. Full story

Is it when your odds to conceive are at the strongest, or is it when you’ve matured enough to be able to take a proper care of your baby? And while it's up to a person to choose, there are statistics and science nobody could rebuff of. Full story

Men with lowered fertility capacity are recommended by scientists to make sex daily. According to Dr. David Greening of Sydney IVF, an Australian center for infertility and in vitro fertilization treatment, daily sex accompanied by orgasm improves the quality of sperm, lowers the number of DNA malfunctions and makes spermatozoons more active. This was heard at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam. Full story

First artificial spermatozoon has been created by scientists at Newcastle University, Great Britain. During this experiment male and female stem cells were utilized to develop a fully-fertile spermatozoon. While female stem cells never produced a male gamete, the same attempt with male cells turned out to be a success. Full story

These days, more and more older women decide to have a baby. The reason behind this could be getting married late, making a career and others. Some women are simply not ready for becoming a mom earlier and finally decide to get pregnant after they cross the age 35. But getting pregnant at this age can be problematic due to particular reasons. Most gynecologists agree on the fact that the older the woman, the more difficult it is for her to conceive, bear and give birth to a healthy baby. Pretty often conception problems and pregnancy complications occur. Here are some useful tips for women over 35 wanting to conceive. Full story

Experts from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology say that obese women can increase their fertility by losing even a little bit of weight. The study involved 40 obese women who were not ovulating. For 12 weeks they were taking weight loss pills. On average, the patients lost 5 per cent of their weight, which lead to 19 per cent increase of blood flow to the womb. Full story

As said before, I still can only hope that I’m pregnant, but I do everything as if I do. And what I do is eat healthy. More milk, more fruits and veggies, no “bad” fats, almost no fried foods, no coke (I actually never liked it), no potato chips, no beer. And it’s quite ok with me, I can eat this way, but the only thing that I will miss is coffee. Good quality, natural, morning coffee. Full story

The reason for a woman who is not ovulating or the non-releasing of the egg from the ovaries is known as anovulation. A lot of women go through this phase once or regularly when they do not ovulate. Most of the time the menstrual bleeding does not take place, however if it does, it happens for the reason known as “breakthrough bleeding” which happens due to low estrogen. Many women assume this bleeding to be the process of ovulation. Full story

Infertility has been a growing nightmare in the developed countries for some time, but medical researchers have finally made a technological breakthrough that will put an end to its reign. Introducing In Vitro Fertilization, or IVF, an idea first proposed in the 1960s by Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards, a psychologist from Cambridge; about ten years after the first IVF baby was born. Full story

You are determined to have a baby and you've got everything ready, but you just can't get pregnant. Some couples are grateful they faced this problem because it made them closer and stronger as a family. Other couples felt it like the toughest experience of their life. There are also examples when a loving couple surprisingly split after a baby is born. What can an expecting couple do to ease their stresses and avoid quarrels? Full story