What you need to know once you've decided to start trying for a baby. Plus practical advice if you’re struggling to conceive.
Fertility guide
Preconception
Maximise your chances of having a healthy pregnancy with our health and conception advice.
- Preparing for pregnancy - getting your bodies ready
- Nutrition and preconception - what to eat
- Ovulation calendar - use our online tool to discover when you're most fertile
Fertility problems
As many as one in seven couples experiences difficulties conceiving. If you're struggling to conceive, we've got practical advice on when to seek help, tests and investigations and advice from leading fertility specialists.
- Infertility - its causes and how it may be treated
- When to seek help for infertility - how long should you wait before seeing a doctor?
- Fertility tests - the blood tests and scans used to diagnose fertility problems
- Infertility support contacts - people who can help you through the ups and downs
- Fertility treatment - a guide to the most common treatments, including IVF
- Egg donation and surrogacy - options if you can't use your own eggs or sperm
- Secondary infertility - problems can begin after one or more successful pregnancies
- Unsuccessful fertility treatment - coming to terms with failed fertility treatments
- Fertility experts - meet our fertility specialists
- Hydatidiform mole - a condition affecting as many as one in every 700-800 UK pregnancies
- Hughes syndrome - a treatable autoimmune disease that can cause recurrent miscarriages
- Polycystic ovary syndrome - a condition affecting the ovaries that causes irregular periods or no periods at all
- Ectopic pregnancy - what they are and how they are caused
- Signs of pregnancy
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