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Fertility Notes- a fertility blog with all the news your womb can use

July 4th, 2008

Rub Some of That Baby Aura on Me

Many women (and men) in the midst of trying to conceive and having some trouble will start to avoid social situations where they know they will encounter pregnant women or babies. While these sights don’t usually bother me, I can understand how seeing others who have something you want so badly but don’t have (yet) […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

July 2nd, 2008

What Defines You? Is It Your (In)Fertility?

Chapter six of Fully Fertile: A 12-Week Plan for Optimal Fertility is entitled, Identifying and Eliminating Your Stressors, and in it, a section is dedicated to your job and the stresses it brings to your life:
So many women who are trying to conceive wonder if quitting their jobs would reduce their stress, and, therefore, […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

July 1st, 2008

Start a Fully Fertile Book Club

I know that I keep tempting you with a full book review of Fully Fertile: A 12-Week Plan for Optimal Fertility, but the more I read, the more I think it makes sense to share some of the “a ha!” moments it provides to me, as they are happening. Look for several of these this […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

June 19th, 2008

What are You Doing to Cultivate Your Qi?

Qi (you know, chi, pronounced “chee”) could be just as important to your baby-making ability as the more physical parts of the equation. Kind of like prana, Qi can be translated to mean “life energy” and according to my new favorite book, Qi:
flows within us and around us, giving all things life, animation, warmth and […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

June 16th, 2008

A Yoga Epiphany

It happened.
Tonight around 7 p.m.
I went to a yoga class that absolutely kicked *ss (and kicked my *ass to boot). It was fabulous. It was wonderful. It was hard!!! Holy crap is your body supposed to do that? Frankly, I was amazed at what my own body was doing. I had no idea.
Unlike the morning […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

June 6th, 2008

Summer Reading - Some Fertile Words

I confess. I have a stack of summer reading to do and I have been avoiding all of the titles that are fertility-related. Because I just haven’t been ready to focus on my own fertility until we got some things out of the way first.
But now I am ready to crack them open again. Start […]

By Gabrielle -- 4 comments

May 9th, 2008

Maximizing Prana for Fertility’s Sake

I am in the midst of reading a great book entitled, Fully Fertile: A 12-Week Plan for Optimal Fertility (check back later this month for a full review), and I keep being struck with sentences that just make sense. Like this one which talks about prana, or life-energy:

From a mystical standpoint, the breath is believed […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments