Conception

It is a fact that lifestyle and diet affect fertility, both male and female. Although it is not scientifically proven that there are foods that increase fertility, maintaining good eating habits influences when conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy. There are certain foods rich in nutrients that are key to fertility and that will properly prepare you for pregnancy.

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The statements of former American lady Michelle Obama to the ABC television network, where she said that after suffering a spontaneous abortion she had her daughters by in vitro fertilization, gave voice to a loss that is little talked about, given the great emotional impact Michelle Obama took advantage of this episode of her life and the media impact that surrounds her to warn families with messages such as "the biological clock is real" and "egg production is limited."

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Through a routine ultrasound, a pelvic exam or a retrovaginal exam, the gynecologist can detect an inverted uterus. Uterine retrogression, an inverted uterus or a tilted uterus is a variant of the anatomy of the woman in the pelvic area, given when the position of the uterus tilts backward, toward the back of the pelvis, rather than forward.

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On June 4, International Infertility Day is celebrated, a problem that according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), affects 10 percent of couples worldwide, although in Spain the figure rises at 17 percent. The search for a baby is always a reason for joy, but for many couples it can become an arduous path, full of obstacles, sadness and hopelessness.

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In Babies and more we have talked on many occasions about the losses during pregnancy, childbirth and after birth. We do it because we are clear that it is a very, very painful time for couples, to give them support from here, and incidentally to raise awareness among those who have not suffered that these couples need a lot of love and understanding, being too usual for them to receive the opposite: well-meaning phrases, but that do more harm than good.

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Many couples have the desire to conceive a child, whatever their sex, especially if it is the first baby. But there is also the case of having certain preferences, an illusion to have a boy or a girl. And then, it goes to myth or popular wisdom, to certain foods, to the Chinese table, to the moon ... No, the perfect "trick" has not yet been found, but a study could have given some clues.

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Although in Babies and more we have already spoken on other occasions of superfetation (getting pregnant while already being pregnant with another baby), it is actually a very unusual condition, and it is what happened to this woman in a case that most surprising. We talked about the story of Kate Hill, a woman from Brisbane (Australia), who got pregnant twice in ten days, and in a somewhat strange way, because she says she only had sex with her husband once.

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In-fertilization (IVF) is a technique used by many couples who wish to fulfill the dream of being parents. Thanks to this technique created by Robert Edwards almost 40 years ago, more than four million children have been born in the world. It consists in getting a sperm to fertilize the mature ovum outside the woman's body, using laboratory techniques.

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Sooner or later it had to happen. Science has advanced so much that it has already made it possible to select the embryos by sex and, in addition, to choose those that, at the time of the election, do not have any genetic disease. The ethical dilemma is important. In Spain, according to the Assisted Reproduction Law, it is only done when there is a hereditary disease, such as the baby born free of the breast cancer mutation because in his family there were already five cases of this disease, but in Bolivia he was born Recently the first baby whose sex has been selected by her parents, with the promise that she has no genetic diseases.

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The statements of basketball player Pau Gasol about his intention to freeze his sperm before traveling to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been sounded. He has just confirmed that he will travel but with "some concern" about the Zika epidemic. And it's not the only one. There are also other worried athletes, such as the British long jump champion, Greg Rutherford or the American volleyball coach, John Speraw, who have confirmed that they will freeze their sperm before traveling to avoid any problems if they are infected.

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Unlike what happens in an in vitro reproduction treatment, in which fertilization occurs in a laboratory, a new natural fertilization technique called AneVivo, allows fertilization and early development of the embryo to occur in the uterus. Thanks to this advanced technique, first implemented in Spain by the IVI Bilbao clinic, the first baby born from a natural fertilization in assisted reproduction was born.

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At the end of September we published two exciting images of several women showing their pregnancies and then the babies born, all of them rainbow babies, who are the ones born after a loss ... of an abortion, or of a baby born without life. Now we bring you a beautiful photo session of another rainbow baby, made by a Michigan photographer named Jen Priester, who captured Charlotte's fragility and at the same time the hope and love that evokes her arrival.

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