Home Diet , In vitro fertilisation , IVF , smoking If You Had to Lose Weight or Quit Smoking to Get Pregnant, Would You?

If You Had to Lose Weight or Quit Smoking to Get Pregnant, Would You?

Catherine McDiarmid-Watt | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | 0 comments

A recent report in the Journal of Advanced Nursing found that 96 percent of women in an IVF preconception study faced lifestyle issues and health risks, but that nearly half of the women weren’t willing or prepared to change their habits.

Why would women who are ready to go through the difficult process of IVF not be agreeable to changing – even if just temporarily – some of aspects of their lifestyle to better their chances of conception?

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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy--Naturally--and to Gauge Your Reproductive Health, by Katie Singer. Publisher: Avery Trade (April 22, 2004)

The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy--Naturally--and to Gauge Your Reproductive Health
by Katie Singer

-- A guide to using fertility awareness - that is, reading fertility signals in order to prevent or achieve pregnancy.

Certified fertility educator Katie Singer explains how to observe and chart fertility cycles to determine when a woman is most fertile to increase chances of conception, or to exercise birth control naturally - a method that, when followed precisely, is as effective as the Pill.

Unlike other books on fertility awareness, The Garden of Fertility also describes how to use the charts to gauge gynecological health and offers non-medical options for strengthening reproductive wellness.

This book provides all the information women never learned in sex education class, but should have.

Paperback: 320 pages
Click to order/for more info: The Garden of Fertility

Category: Diet, In vitro fertilisation, IVF, smoking

About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.

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