Fertility Basics

Build your foundation with straightforward information about how fertility works, menstrual cycles, and what factors influence your chances of conception.

Boosting Your Fertility

If you’re trying for a baby it can help to have your body in optimum health and ready for a baby. Although fertility is a complex area, there are some ways...

Cervical Mucus: A Good Fertility Indicator?

The consistency of cervical mucus changes throughout the menstrual cycle and alters perceptibly at the time of ovulation. By examining your own cervical mucu...

Do Ovulation Calculators Work?

If you have been trying to get pregnant for a few months without success, it is probably too early yet to start having fertility tests. You can maximise your...

Fertility and Age

At birth, the female baby is born with approximately 1 to 2 million eggs. All the eggs of the female reproductive system are present at birth, and remain dor...

Fertility and Your Lifestyle

Your fertility can be affected by a wide range of things, including numerous lifestyle factors. This applies to both men and women and although some are more...

Fertility Facts

The process of achieving fertilisation can be complex and confusing. Both the male and female characteristics can influence this process. However, by underst...

Fertility Myths

When it comes to fertility, there are a lot of myths in existence about what causes it, who is affected and how it’s treated. When you’re worried about a...

Increasing Your Chances of Conceiving

Although achieving conception involves a range of complex factors - some of which you have little control over - when you’re first starting out there are s...

Natural Family Planning

Natural family planning (NFP) is a natural way of controlling pregnancy that is approved by the Roman Catholic Church. Fertility awareness is a similar conce...

Ovulation Tests

The female reproductive system is highly complex, involving numerous organs and hormones. The complex interaction between reproductive hormones and various s...

Preparing Your Body for a Baby

Deciding to have a baby is one of the most important decisions in a person’s life. Ideally it should be made with proper preparation and planning. Pregnanc...

The Ultimate Male Contraceptive?

Research in the last couple of years has suggested that we may be close to a major turning point in contraception – a successful and effective male contrac...

When to Worry About Your Fertility

The process of getting pregnant is both delicate and complicated; it can take months and sometimes years to achieve a successful pregnancy. Infertility is a...