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Dealing with PCOS: Tips & Tricks

You are not alone. PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) is one of the most common reasons women have trouble getting pregnant.

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Assisted Fertility

Question to ask your fertility doctor

Your first appointment can get overwhelming very fast.

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Egg Freezing

How Effective is Egg Freezing

Like anything preserved, there may be some question about the side effects of freezing human eggs that are meant to be maintained in their original state.

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Egg Freezing

What is the right age to freeze your eggs?

Women may choose to freeze their eggs at any age throughout their 20s and 30s, but freezing eggs by the age of 34 seems to lead to the best chances of a resulting pregnancy.

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Egg Freezing

Pros and Cons of Egg Freezing

A woman may decide to freeze her eggs for a variety of reasons...

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Egg Freezing

The $$ of Egg Freezing

Egg freezing is the only way for a woman to preserve her eggs now to use at a later time to have a baby. However, it is considered an elective procedure by insurance companies, so likely the full cost will be the responsibility of the woman.

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Egg Freezing

101 For Egg Freezing

Egg freezing is the process of extracting and preserving a woman’s eggs for use at a later date. You know those super healthy, viable eggs you have when you’re younger that you have no intention of turning into a baby just yet because you’d like to spend a few years spending money on concert tickets and trips to Thailand before you have to spend all of it on diapers and childcare?

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Intro to Fertility

4 awesome fertility products that women swear by to get pregnant 🙌

There are a number of OTC products that can significantly help out with trying to conceive!

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Intro to Fertility

4 fertility myths that won't help you get pregnant ☹️

There are tons of myths surrounding pregnancies, but when you’re desperate to get pregnant, you feel like you’ll listen to just about anything. That being said, after our other articles of good advice to take here’s a quick list of things to ignore.

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Intro to Fertility

6 things to do RN if you want to get pregnant! 👀

Hoping to get pregnant? Here’s your checklist of what to do.

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Intro to Fertility

6 early clues that you might be preggers 🙏

Try not to obsess over it, but you can keep an eye out for signs that you may have conceived.

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Intro to Fertility

Things you can totally relate to when trying to get pregnant 😺

Oh, the joys of TTC...

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Intro to Fertility

Troubleshooting a confusing BBT chart 📈❓📉

For some women, it can seem like there’s no rhyme or reason to their BBT charts whatsoever.

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Intro to Fertility

10 things all hetero-couples go through while TTC 😮😱🤔

You might not believe some of the stuff you guys will have to do...

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Intro to Fertility

3 Easy (free!) hacks for figuring out when you're ovulating 💸

We’re going to let you in a few ways to help determine ovulation that are totally free!

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Intro to Fertility

Looking at your discharge can help you get pregnant (Seriously!) 💧💧💧

Believe it or not, this seemingly gross bodily fluid can actually help you know the status of your health down there and when's the best time for you to baby dance.

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Intro to Fertility

🤓 📖 Learn the talk behind baby-making 📖 🤓

Online TTC (Trying To Conceive) communities basically have their own language, which is totally confusing and overwhelming when you’re a newbie trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

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Intro to Fertility

⏰The truth about exactly when you need to have sex to get pregnant ⏰

One of the perks of trying to get pregnant is definitely the fact that you get to have TONS of carefree sex!

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Assisted Fertility

Your Fertility Workup: FSH Test

An follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) test reads the hormone levels that send messages to your ovaries at the beginning of your menstrual cycle, so you will take this test on the second or third day of your menstrual cycle. The FSH is also the hormone that produces follicles in your ovaries, and these follicles are measured furthered by the antral follicle count (AFC) test.

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Your Fertility Workup: Semen Analysis

A semen analysis is a sperm sample that is carefully looked at to see how much semen is produced, how much sperm is in the semen, if the sperm is shaped normally, and how well the sperm moves individually and can move in a forward motion.

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Your Fertility Workup: Endometrial Biopsy

An endometrial biopsy involves taking a small tissue sample from your uterus. Lab technicians looking at this tissue can identify problematic cells, changes in hormone levels, and infections that may prevent an egg from implanting in your uterus.

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Assisted Fertility

Your Fertility Workup: Hysteroscopy

A hysteroscopy is a procedure that allows your doctor to look inside your uterus with a camera. The hysteroscope will show images of your uterus and the openings of your fallopian tubes on a screen so your doctor can have a clear view of anything that might be preventing a pregnancy.

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Your Fertility Workup: Saline Sonogram

A saline sonogram is used to look at the shape of your uterus and your uterine lining. A sterile fluid, or saline, is put into your uterus which will show the doctors an outline of its shape. This test allows your doctor to look for anything in your uterus that might be blocking an egg from living there, such as a fibroid, polyp, or cyst.

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Your Fertility Workup: Pelvic Ultrasound

A pelvic ultrasound is performed with a small device that is gently inserted into the vagina to look at your uterus and ovaries. This ultrasound will look at the size, shape, and position of your uterus. It will also look at the size of your ovaries, follicle development in your uterus, and it will detect any abnormal growth, like a fibroid.

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Your Fertility Workup: HSG Test

The test to look at your fallopian tubes is called a hysterosalpingogram (HSG), also known as the dye test. It is an x-ray test that uses a dye to let your doctor see both your fallopian tubes and your uterus.

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Assisted Fertility

Your Fertility Workup: AFC Test

An antral follicle count (AFC) is a measure of how many antral (or “resting”) follicles are in each ovary. These follicles are important because they are what release necessary hormones into your body to keep your menstrual cycle working properly, and they represent how many eggs are available to be fertilized. More of these hormone-producing follicles means a better chance of getting pregnant.

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Your Fertility Workup: AMH Test

An anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) test provides information about your egg supply, because AMH is a hormone produced by the egg-producing follicles in your ovaries.

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Assisted Fertility

Your Fertility Workup: The Hormone Test

The hormone test will reveal if your body is sending the necessary signals to your ovaries to create an egg. Hormones control egg development, release, fertilization, and implantation—basically every step is controlled by your hormones, so checking for imbalances is very important!

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Assisted Fertility

Your Fertility Workup: What To Expect

Your fertility workup is very important, so it’s understandable to feel both excited and stressed! You’ll feel better knowing exactly what to expect and why each test is being performed.

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Roadblocks

TTC while drinking

A glass of wine or a beer here and there won’t hurt too much, even in the first few weeks or before you know you are pregnant. Heavy and regular drinking is more of a risk for both miscarriage and the development of the baby.

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Roadblocks

TTC while smoking

About 30% of women of reproductive age in the US are regular smokers, and 16% of Glow users who were trying to conceive said they smoked. Here's how smoking affects your fertility.

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Roadblocks

TTC while using illicit drugs

Although most people know that drugs and pregnancy really shouldn’t mix, that doesn’t mean all potential mamas-to-be are abstaining from drug use before they’re actually carrying a child. That said, drug use has serious consequences if you’re trying to conceive.

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