There are basically three differences between men and women’s fertility, though God only knows how many other types of differences there are (we’ll just have to save that for another blog). For starters, boys aren’t born with any sperm at all. They only start producing them when they reach puberty. Girls, on the other hand, are born with all [...]
You know the drill . . . you meet a stranger in the course of a day, and one of the first questions you usually ask each other is along the lines of “And what do you do?” As soon as I mention that I’m a women’s health author specializing in fertility, invariably I’ll get any number of [...]
We as women are so used to experiencing various types of pains and discomforts during our cycles that we may lose sight of what is normal versus what merits seeing a health practitioner. Of course, the benefit of learning about Fertility Awareness and charting your cycle is that you become acutely aware of what signs to be concerned about. [...]
The answer to Tuesday’s fertility brain teaser is . . . (drum roll, please): Both the sister and brother each started their lives as eggs in their mother’s ovaries while she herself was but a fetus in her own mother’s pregnant womb. To help you visualize this concept, see page 16 of the color insert [...]
Two adult siblings are heatedly discussing their respective fertility. The 31 year-old sister says to her 28 year-old brother: You know, men have it so much easier than women. After all, men produce sperm every single day from the time of puberty until they die. Women, on the other hand, are only fertile the few days around the time [...]
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may have missed the ongoing controversy the last few years about whether or not women should continue to do breast self-exams. The gist of it is that women often find lumps that turn out to be false positives, meaning that they went through a lot of needless [...]
Instead of begrudging the fact that you waste an inordinate amount of time each week in the grocery line, why not put that time to good use? Embrace a paradigm shift and decide that the longer the line is, the more opportunity you’ll have to make sex better for both you and your partner. How? [...]
The reason that temperatures don’t help determine the best time to achieve pregnancy is because by the time you have a temperature shift, the egg is usually already gone. However, the temperature is still very useful for determining many things, including: (1) whether you are ovulating at all (2) whether the second phase of [...]
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