Caffeine and Fertility: The Coffee Study Everyone Quotes, and What Came After
The advice on caffeine and fertility usually arrives in one line, and the line is usually "cut it out." A nurse says…
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Acupuncture for Fertility: What Happened When the Fake Needles Did Just as Well
Acupuncture for fertility usually arrives as a tip, not a treatment plan. Somebody in the waiting room had it before her transfer.…
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Sleep and Fertility: The Half of the Bed Nobody Asks About
It's twenty to midnight. She's been in bed since half past ten, because somebody on a forum said the body does its…
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The Two Week Wait Isn’t a Test of Your Composure
Day six. You’ve been awake since five, lying very still, running an inventory of your own body. A twinge low on the…
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Egg Quality and the 90-Day Window: What’s Really Happening Before You Ovulate
There is a story most women are told about their eggs, and it goes like this: you were born with all of…
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Postpartum Fertility: Your Body Set the Interval Before You Did
At the six-week check they tell you you’re cleared. Cleared to exercise, cleared for sex, cleared — and this is where it…
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Recurrent Miscarriage: The Test Nobody Ordered for Him
By the third loss you know the routine. Which corridor, which chair, the particular way the room goes quiet a half-second before…
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Unexplained Infertility: What That Word Actually Means
You go in for the results. Ovulation, confirmed. Tubes, open. Hormones in range. His semen analysis, normal. And then somebody says the…
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Secondary Infertility: The Loss Nobody Gives You Room to Grieve
In a room full of people talking about conception, you can usually pick out the one living with secondary infertility. She’s the…
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The Timed Intercourse Trap: When Making Love Turns Into a Test You Have to Pass
Timed Inercourse: There’s a particular quiet that settles over a bedroom when both people already know what the night is for. The…
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