Guys should be keeping an eye on the biological clock, too.

Experiencing an orgasm each time she has baby-making sex may greatly increase a woman’s enthusiasm for working on Project Pregnancy, but there’s no medical or anatomical reason that a woman needs an orgasm in order to conceive.

Babies have been conceived in all sexual positions, and sperm are designed to swim—upwards, against gravity.

Having sex every other day during your fertile period is more than enough.

Conceiving right away is anything but the norm, despite what most of us think.

Mother Nature doesn’t operate a reproductive frequent flier program that guarantees you a seat on the next flight to Planet Pregnancy just because you’ve been pregnant before.

Trying to time intercourse for the 12 to 24 hour window of opportunity when the egg is capable of being fertilized isn’t your best reproductive strategy.

The best stress management techniques in the world won’t cure a bona fide fertility problem.

Mother Nature is a bit more mysterious than that. She ties your ovulation day in this cycle to the first day of your next menstrual period.

While males set up an in-body manufacturing operation to meet ongoing demand for sperm, females employ a different egg-readiness strategy. They pack all the eggs they’re going to need for their entire reproductive journey before they’re even born.

Wrong. It takes an entire team of sperm to get the job done.

Go ahead and make that popcorn. “Microwave radiation is not the same as harmful, cancer-causing radiation,” explains University of Toronto physicist Jason Harlow, Ph.D.

Tips for giving Mother Nature a nudge when you are trying to get pregnant.

What you can do to increase your odds of conceiving quickly.

Monique Shebbeare was 37 and single when she decided she was ready to have a baby. The first step on her reproductive to do list? Researching sperm donors.