Trying To Conceive on Shine

To Buy or Not to Buy Before Baby

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When I married my husband, I inherited a religious tradition that his family has followed for many years. Baby showers and gifts for an unborn child are taboo. Decorating the nursery…

How far would you go to have a baby? (Yep, another bizarre surrogate story ...)

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It used to be you had sex and you got pregnant—or you didn't. Now, with the help of medical research, there are all kinds of ways women can get pregnant and have babies. …

Trying to conceive: does body type really matter?

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Trying to make a baby can become a complicated business that leads to all sorts of questions -- am I

The Baby Blues

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In my home, we used to throw around phrases like "knock me up" or "get knocked up" all the time. Fertility was really taken for granted being that neither of us had an issue with it before. My son was easy to conceive, my step-kids didn't take much work either, according my...

A Fully Fertile Hello

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This is my first blog entry here on Shine and I guess I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Beth Heller and I'm the co-founder of Pulling Down the Moon, Inc. We are a company that specializes in integrative care (holistic treatment) for women who are trying to...

A Fully Fertile Hello

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Is there anything that I can do to choose the sex of my baby?

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I love this question, and I hear it all the time from my patients. And the answer - amazingly enough - is yes. There are some things that you can do to increase the likelihood that you’ll have a boy baby. First, you must eat lots and lots of broccoli. Just kidding. That’s an old wives tale. The...

PCOS - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

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I have PCOS....let me say it again because I still don't believe it myself...I have PCOS! PCOS is also known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or Disease. The symptoms of PCOS may include, but are by no means limited to: Irregular or absent periods (long, short, lacking or...