Conception Tips

Contrary to popular belief, it's not easy for "everyone" to get pregnant. Fertility can be a tricky thing and fertility clinics receive many "help me get pregnant" requests and requests for tips on how to conceive.

The way our body functions depends on a multitude of factors, including lifestyle. Lifestyle choices can, and do, influence our chances of conception and giving birth to a healthy, properly developed baby. When it comes to health and nutrition, nearly every choice we make is related to conception.

Tips for Conception and Getting Pregnant

The best tip on getting pregnant is: follow a healthy lifestyle, know how your body works and actively try to conceive. It's that simple.

It is true that an abusive lifestyle could diminish both a woman’s and a man’s fertility and increase the chances of birth defects.

Fertility and Lifestyle

When you decide it’s time to start trying to conceive, it’s worth evaluating a few things related to your overall lifestyle.Take our short, eight question fertility test based on lifestyle to see what areas need improvement in order to conceive a baby.

• Are you eating properly? Are you taking the necessary amount of vitamins and nutrients every day?
• Are you smoking?
• Are you taking drugs?
• Are you drinking excessively?
• Are you over/underweight?
• Do you exercise enough?
• Do you have high levels of stress?
• Do you have a healthy sexual life?

If you are happy with the answers given above, then you agree a common sense and a moderate approach to things are probably what’s needed to lead a healthy lifestyle.

If you think there are points you could improve in your lifestyle in order to get pregnant, try and improve them yourself one by one. If you find it difficult to deal especially with long term issues, try and get advice and support from professionals. There is never too late to lose all your bad habits and, thank God, a lot of help is to be found out there.The BabyWonderland forum is one of the best, friendliest places where you could find support from people just like you, actively trying for a baby. Why not join them today?

Interactive tools that can help me to get pregnant

What does it mean "actively trying to conceive a baby"? Well, certainly not only ups and downs in bed every night (although they certainly help). BabyWonderland has a very accurate Ovulation Calendar that helps you know better how your body functions. By knowing your cycles, you can plan accurately your fertile days every month. The BabyWonderland Ovulation Calendar can help you get pregnant by calculating your fertile days and your menstruation days month by month. Our Basal Body Temperature fertility chart is also a highly accurate and sophisticated tool to monitor the symptoms your body shows at fertile and non-fertile peaks. Check them out and start the mathematics of trying to conceive today. 

If, after a number of years of actively trying for a baby, you still have not achieved pregnancy, despite the healthiest lifestyle, there might be other methods you could try. Read our article on ways to increase fertility for more ideas on how to get pregnant.