Are you trying to conceive? There are some things that you can do on your own to help improve your chances of conception and they include:
1. Maintain a healthy body weight
Being overweight or underweight can have a negative impact on your chances of getting pregnant. That is because fat cells are related to estrogen production, and if you have too many or too few, it can throw off the hormones involved in ovulation.
When you are overweight, you stand the risk of an increase in insulin resistance, which can disrupt ovulation. However, losing excess weight can boost your overall health and improve your chances of conception.
2. Quit Smoking and Alcohol
These habits cause complications in your baby such as low birth weight, birth defects, and learning disabilities. As for the men can lead to higher levels of estrogen this reducing sperm count.
3. Eliminate stress
When trying to conceive, your stress levels may go up and this can affect your menstrual cycle causing delay or lack of ovulation.
It is difficult to remove stress from our lives, but we can control how we deal with it by finding ways to relax such as getting massages, exercising, going to the beach, or just simply doing what we love. Being stress-free increases sexual drive.
4. Know when you ovulate
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