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Six Months to Conception
A Practical 5-Step Conception Plan for Getting Pregnant
By Lisa Marie Metzler
Are you thinking about becoming pregnant? Before you plan that romantic evening, you may want to put your plans on hold. Six months could be all you need to ensure that you (and your partner) can be in optimal health.
According to Dr. F. Sessions Cole, director of the division of newborn medicine at St. Louis Children's Hospital and instructor of neurology and pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., the most important time in a pregnancy is the first four to eight weeks when most of your baby's vital organs are forming. "To wait to stop smoking or drinking, taking prescription medications or adding nutrients to your diet until you find out you're pregnant means you're weeks or months late," he says.
Six months might be just what you need to get your body prepared for a healthy conception. In fact, by the time you're ready to conceive, you'll wonder why you waited so long to feel this good!
Taneshia Laird, a hopeful mom-to-be living in Princeton, N.J., made an appointment for a full checkup before conception. "It was revealed that I had hypothyroidism, which can affect fertility, so now I'm on Unithroid," she says.
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Re: Six Months to Conception by anonymous on 10/14/2009 08:47AM
Lisa Marie Metzler, Please have try all ways to get pregnant but I don't count my date well or what happen? when I use the easy calculation I used it good but always the result is neg. please try to help me, I go through your book but nothing happen like this month my LPM is on 28/09/2009, makes me to play with my husband always one per every day, even make him not happy with me because we had been one year, my acual day is 28 days, please i need your help on this case and I know that you can, I conduct medical doctor they give me some treatment last month I took it after MP two day I have started with but may be thing will be oright.awaiting for your help