Ladies, you can finally breathe a sigh of relief. In a couple years, you may be able to sit back and relax. No more daily pill popping, Depo-Provera injection every three months or wrestling with the female condom. A pill for men is in the works! Like the conventional pill for women, the pill made ...
Ladies, want to know when you’re ovulating? If you keep an eye on vaginal discharge it gets goopy and like egg white during ovulation (approx two weeks before your period starts). Sperm can live seven days inside you and your egg only about 24 hours so make sure you’re having sex at the right time ...
My body knows just what to do. My baby grows just as it should be. ~ Penny Simkin
The debate over political correctness blew up again when a few weeks ago, news broke that a school in Seattle would rather Easter Eggs be called “Spring Spheres.” Although I appreciate the effort to have candy-filled eggs in spring in a way that is completely detached from biblical references, I’m not sure it’s possible. However, ...
A lesbian couple has started the UK’s first fertility clinic exclusively for homosexual couples. It will help match parents with sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates. “We wanted to set up something where we would act as a go-between and where couples could meet potential donors face-to-face to work out how they would work things ...
It’s a sad fact that many women don’t understand their menstrual cycle. When is their period due? When do they ovulate? When can they have sex and not get pregnant? When have they been at risk and needed emergency contraception? I hear women asking these questions all the time, and they are often grown adults ...
Women are always portrayed in movies as having it all together career-wise but being compete dunces with their personal lives. Sure, she has a job and friends, but she can’t really be happy until she meets Mr Right and has a chance to settle down and begin a family. If only she understood that before ...
Men who take vitamin and antioxidant supplements have a better chance of getting their partner pregnant or have a live birth than men who don’t. Researchers looked at more than 1,000 couples at fertility clinics and found that those men who were having problems with subfertility did better if they took these supplements. Wow, what a surprise! The ...
Having trouble getting pregnant? Why not invite a clown into your bedroom? A study in an IVF fertility centre looked at women who had seen a clown performance shortly after embryo transfer and those who hadn’t, and found that there was double the chance of conception for those who’d had their funny bones tickled. What ...
Art often brings our attention to things that we try to push from our minds. Such is the case with Brigitte Coreman’s Life Clock. The clock is set according to a woman’s age and first menstruation. Every 28 days, one ceramic bead will be counted on the necklace, each of which represents the 500 chances a woman ...
We know that a lot of women love cats. And we know that a lot of single women supposedly...
The other night, I was watching one of the many, many cooking-based shows currently broadcast, wall-to-wall and round-the-clock,...
Don’t believe the commercials! Lubricant isn’t right for everyone, especially the “warming” and “tingling” ones which have extra chemicals...
I had all sorts of things to prepare before a job interview this week. I’m sure you can relate....
For better or for worse, the popular franchise The Bachelor will come to Canada in the fall of 2012....
Dear Madame X, I started using a menstrual cup and I noticed that my blood is really, really...
This Wednesday is Burns Night, a celebration of Robert Burns’ work which will be observed in detail (from Toast...
How fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I; And I will love thee still,...
