10 Common Baby-making Mistakes

When you're trying to get pregnant, don't let these avoidable mistakes affect your conception goals.
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Not Having Enough Sex

Has anyone told you that cutting down on sex to "save" your guy's sperm will make getting pregnant easier? Or has it turned out that the only times you two get busy is when you're ovulating? Many days of not having sex may be throwing off conception. "It's easy to miss the fertile period if sex is limited only to when you think you're ovulating because many women believe they're ovulating when they actually aren't," says Samuel Wood, M.D., medical director at The Reproductive Sciences Center in La Jolla, CA. Rather than trying to have sex just around "the right time," experts suggest couples have sex as often as they like, paying special attention to the few days before ovulation.

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wadenshell2 wrote:

Not having enough s*x? I could not imagine! I love being one with my husband, a happy marriage is a HAPPY marriage. You shouldnt need to even worry (as long as there are no fertility or other issues) about getting pregnant if you are truly happily married. 7 years and 4 kiddos and very happy all around here! Having a good s*x life with my husband makes life in every other area all the more better. Good resources "Sheet Music" by Dr. Kevin Lemann and the book "Red Hot Monogamy"

10/4/2011 10:55:54 AM Report Abuse
lnreyes wrote:

same thing, can't go to the next slide. to view it all i had to select "print" then view it all from there....

9/1/2011 04:06:02 PM Report Abuse
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