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Ways To Boost Your Fertility Naturally
If you want to have a baby in 2013, try these tips to have the best chance.
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.
Soak up the sunshine
Sunlight boosts fertility in both men and women by increasing levels of Vitamin D. Studies have found Vitamin D increases levels of the female sex hormones progesterone and oestrogen, which regulate periods and make conception more likely. It also boosts sperm count.
Take time to relax
Stress can have a huge impact on female fertility. It can also slow male sperm production and lower libido.
Eat more dairy
Women, who eat one serving of full-fat dairy a day, reduce their risk of infertility by more than a quarter, a study found. Dairy fat helps the ovaries work well.
Try popping a multivitamin
Research showed taking a daily prenatal vitamin — containing key nutrients for conception like folic acid, Vitamin B12 and selenium — could more than double pregnancy chances.
Stub out the ciggies
Male smokers are 50% more likely to be impotent and have lower sperm counts. Female smokers have a 30% lower fertility rate than non-smokers. Smoking can also prevent embryo implantation in the uterus.
Think before drinking
If you’re trying to get pregnant, it’s a good idea for you and your partner to drink less alcohol. Drinking too much has been found to impair ovulation and sperm production.
Use a phone app
Free apps like Period Diary, Fertility Friend and Menstrual Calendar work out when you’re at your most fertile from your daily body temperature and the dates of your period.
Get the point
Try acupuncture to stimulate specific points on the body. It’s thought it may help control ovulation and increase blood flow to the uterus, and therefore improve the chances of a fertilised egg implanting.
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.
Know your window
For baby success, you need to have sex during your most fertile time of the month. In an average 28-day cycle, this usually falls between day 10 and day 17.
Lose weight
Body fat produces oestrogen, which confuses the body’s ovulation cycle. Overweight women often have less regular periods than women who weigh less. Losing just 5% of your body weight can boost conception chances by about a fifth.
But don’t get skinny
Being underweight can switch off your body’s ability to reproduce eggs, as it senses there isn’t enough fat to sustain a healthy pregnancy.
Cut down on carbs
Some experts believe a diet high in refined carbohydrates, like white bread, pasta and biscuits, can affect conception. These foods raise blood sugar quickly, causing an insulin surge that can impair fertility.
Say no to drugs
Recreational drugs, such as cocaine and marijuana, have been found to lower sperm counts and increase abnormal sperm, while female drug users can face ovulation problems.
Eat more oily fish
Some studies show omega-3s, which are found in oily fish, such as salmon and in linseed, may reduce risk of miscarriage and improve sperm quality. These essential fats are crucial for healthy hormone functioning, but many of us don’t get enough.
Kick the caffeine
Research has shown that just one cup of coffee per day could halve your chances of conception. Experts say caffeine may reduce the activity of the Fallopian tube muscles, which carry the eggs from the ovaries.
Cut out painkillers
Some over-the-counter pills, such as paracetamol and ibuprofen, can affect conception if taken around the time of ovulation. They may suppress hormones called prostaglandins, which help release eggs into the Fallopian tube.
Drink more water
If you don’t drink enough water, the reproductive system will lose out as the body ensures that the more vital organs receive what they need first. Water creates plump egg follicles and a strong blood supply to the womb lining. Plus, if you’re dehydrated, your cervical fluid — the stuff that helps the sperm find the egg — will be sluggish.
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 new research. Exercise stops the body from producing excessive insulin, which is thought to harm development of healthy eggs.
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Wanu Ngwee
March 18, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Yes, we need more Zambian women to conceive, our population is too small for Zambia’s land size!
CK
March 18, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Good work!
Hakainde
March 18, 2013 at 3:23 pm
The surest and swetest way is to have sex seven days a week!!!!!!
Uhh excluding menstruation days of course you idiots!
Uncle B'
March 18, 2013 at 3:33 pm
We will try these tit bits!
Congo Lay
March 18, 2013 at 3:47 pm
Mutototo ni mbama.
Chiwanangala
March 18, 2013 at 4:27 pm
am horny
mwamba mutale
March 18, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Kwishibafye ukutomba. Yakumbuyo is the best,it has deeper penetration such that she will even hear some waves in her ears…ninshi lyaingila
Lozi Bull
March 18, 2013 at 5:31 pm
Point Taken.
Nice Info
Thugnificent
March 18, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Im desputing the fact that cutting on the ciggies & booze can increase fertility bcause im a smoker & a moderate drinker but my girlfriend has aborted twice in a roll in jst a year,nw guess what…she’s pregnant 4me again & she’s not even interested in aborting bcause she’s fade up of the same routing…anyway ma point is,wen u are born highly prolific then none of the above points can prevent u frm gettin a woman 2 concieve..
Ba Kay1
March 19, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Some old fool carried an umbrella and mistook it for a gun, and then went hunting,imagine what happened when he saw an Impala!? got an umbrella and tried shooting and ‘voila’there laid a dead impala on the ground, would you be sure it was shot by a mare umbrella in the hands of an old fool? no some guy somewhere should have used the real gun!.The essence of the story, limbi te fumo lyobe..hahahaha just joking my bro.
Be Real
March 18, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Good information — I like that
Ba Medza
March 18, 2013 at 10:47 pm
You have not mentioned TUTE ne MBALALA nafyo nimbama,awe tufyaleko mwee! Filipo mwacilamo ukuyumfwa mwalamwenako.
kwasha mukwenu
March 19, 2013 at 3:19 am
Hakainde u r useless! How can u dispute those well researched facts.
TimZ
March 19, 2013 at 6:56 am
Correct information. But it does not mean dat if u have more children, den u use the opposite of the article as a way of family planing. Go for depo provera or oral conF or safe plan as birth control not alcohol as some may take wrong advantages. Think of liver sirosis,ateroscalosis, impotence, abortions.
Lisa
March 19, 2013 at 9:55 am
yeah! gud infor wil put in practice…this yr wont pass, nishi nafyala…..
i care
April 12, 2013 at 10:11 am
i will put this in practice now the problem is who to impregnate me oshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!