Clearblue Fertility Monitor Value Kit

What good is a fertility monitor? A fertility monitor is a great, I’d say indispensable tool if you want to get pregnant. It will help women identify five days of High fertility before reaching Peak Fertility phase. This in turn makes pregnancy much easier to achieve.

This is a must have. Although no method can guarantee 100% the chance of being pregnant, the Clearblue Fertility Monitor works with the greatest accuracy among other fertility monitors available. The monitor is a little pricey, but given the task it performs I’d say is pretty cheap, and easy to use.

This kit includes everything you need:

- The ClearBlue / ClearPlan Fertility Monitor
- A Package of 30 Test Sticks.
-Free Preseed Sample
- 5 Pregnancy test strips
-Free Insured Shipping

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China Faces Low Fertility Issues

HANGZHOU, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China, the country with more population in the World is suffering from low fertility levels. Around 10% of couples can't conceive, as recent studies have shown.

As a populated country, data was hard to gather, and statistics were hard to get, but individual reports on specific areas gave a whole look at the fertility situation in China, thus resulting in this 7 - 10 percentage of infertility among married couples as stated by Professor Wang Yifei, form the Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Before these studies, the blame of infertility and miscarriages was age. Women delayed childbirth until 35 old. But now results show that male infertility is also on the rise, with almost a 60% decrease in sperm count compared tot he 70s.

"A certain percentage of the sperm donated by seemingly healthy college boys to our sperm bank in Shanghai are not eligible in terms of sperm count or motility," Wang said.

There is no official results, but experts believe that around 10 million families need IVF or fertility treatment.

A reproduction health specialist in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, has attributed the rising infertility rates to stressful and unhealthy lifestyles linked to China's dramatic social and economic changes -- including obesity, drinking, smoking and environmental problems.

"The problem deserves attention from all walks of life because it threatens the quality and structure of our future population," said Prof. Huang Hefeng, of Zhejiang University, at an ongoing symposium on reproduction health in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang.

IVF: Is having twins really so bad?

The Birth of twins would seem like the best possible outcome for any couple undergoing fertility treatment: years of longing for a family rewarded with not just one, but two bundles of joy. It's a scenario that has become increasingly common in the past few decades as the number of multiple births in the UK has risen significantly, mainly thanks to the success of IVF procedures.

But behind the cute images of twins and triplets lie some harsh medical statistics. While the majority of twin babies grow into healthy children, multiple births carry far greater risks and can result in a traumatic start to life, including weeks spent in an intensive care unit. More than 100 IVF babies will die each year as a consequence of being born in a multiple birth and some will be affected by lifelong disabilities, such as cerebral palsy. In addition, the mother is also more likely to suffer dangerous complications during the pregnancy.

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Move to restrict IVF treatments could hurt many women

LONDON - The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which regulates IVF treatments in the UK, is to place restrictions on the number of embryos that can be implanted in women. Instead of the current two embryos, officials are planning to implant just one because of fears that IVF treatments would lead to a surge in multiple births.

The Observer reported that only those women who do not respond to treatment and older women would be eligible to receive more than one embryo. Some 30,000 women undergo IVF treatment annually in the country.

Critics said the new rules would halve the chance of successful conception in women. HFEA is also thought to be on the verge of instructing doctors to cut the incidence of multiple births through IVF from the prevailing 25 percent to around 10 percent.

The new policy is supposed to receive backing from fertility organizations like "Tamba, the Infertility Network UK, the Multiple Births Foundation and the British Fertility Society," the Observer reported.

The BBC though reports that the HFEA has denied reports it was about to bring these restrictions in place. It said the decision was yet to be made and if it is to be made then a public consultation would be launched first.