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- Trying to conceive - Office on Womens Health
Trying to conceive How do you figure out when you're fertile and when you're not?
- Preconception health
Preconception health Preconception health is a woman's health before she becomes pregnant It means knowing how health conditions and risk factors could affect a woman or her unborn baby if she becomes pregnant For example, some foods, habits, and medicines can harm your baby — even before he or she is conceived Some health problems, such as diabetes, also can affect pregnancy
- Contraception - World Health Organization (WHO)
limited access to contraception a limited choice of methods a fear or experience of side-effects cultural or religious opposition poor quality of available services gender-based barriers
- Stages of pregnancy - Office on Womens Health
Stages of pregnancy Pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, counting from the first day of your last normal period The weeks are grouped into three trimesters Find out what's happening with you and your baby in these three stages
- Pregnancy - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child . . .
The events that lead to pregnancy begin with conception, in which a sperm penetrates an egg The fertilized egg (called a zygote) then travels through the woman's fallopian tube to the uterus, where it implants itself in the uterine wall The zygote is made up of a cluster of cells that later form the fetus and the placenta
- Womens Health Infographic: Conception (Text Alternative)
6 Things to Know About Conception Graphic: A diagram indicating that peak fertility occurs between days 12 and 14 of an average 28-day menstrual cycle Ovulation occurs at about day 14 90% of women don’t know that 2 days before through the day of ovulation is the best time to try to get pregnant 40% of women don’t know that a woman is born with all the eggs she will ever have
- What are some common signs of pregnancy? - NICHD
The primary sign of pregnancy is missing a menstrual period or two or more consecutive periods, but many women experience other symptoms of pregnancy before they miss a period
- Family planning contraception methods
Fact sheet on family planning providing key facts and information on benefits of family planning, who provides family planning, contraceptive use, unmet need, contraceptive methods and WHO response
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