Posts tagged ovulation
Improving Ovulation Naturally, Part I

An introduction to our series on ovulatory disorders and how acpuncture and herbs can help treat them!

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TTC: Timing To Conceive

It’s a question that I get asked on a weekly basis - “What days should we be trying on?” A recent study from Yale University researchers found that about 60 percent of women thought that they were most fertile in the two days after ovulation. Unfortunately, those women were wrong. So, as it turns out, there’s also a lot of misinformation about when women are at their fertile peak.

Women are most fertile during a 6 day window that ends the day after ovulation. Outside that relatively short window, your chances of falling pregnant are generally lower than 5%.

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10 Ways to Boost Ovulation and Improve Your Chances of Getting Pregnant!

A few people told me they got pregnant after long periods of trying unsuccessfully to do so after following the advice from a book called The Fertility Diet.  So I got curious and have been reading it this week, and thought I’d share with you their top tips.  

The Fertility Diet, by Jeorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD and Walter C. Willet, MD, DrPH, both professors at Harvard Medical School, presents the results of the Nurses’ Health Study, broken down into their top 10 simple lifestyle and diet changes that can improve your chances of getting pregnant. 

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