Reading Time: 5 minutes Our takeaways: COVID-19 may have a say in your ovulation timing. Ovulation tests can’t guarantee a pregnancy, but they can help you predict what your fertile days are with higher confidence given the uncertainties presented by the bigger environment. Different manufacturers of LH tests have very different recommendations on the best Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaways: A pregnancy lifestyle vision board helps parents-to-be envision their lifestyles during pregnancy, foresee changes, and adapt & adjust in advance. It also serves as a collection of the knowledge you’ve learned, the decisions you’ve made, and the guardrails that you will mostly stick to when you actually get Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our takeaways: Many Asian vegetables are rich in folate/folic acid, which can expand your folate intake food sources or provide alternatives for raw veggie intolerant people. Flowering might impact the folate richness of the same vegetable (i.e: choy sum). If there’s no Asian stores around, you might be able to Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaways: While folic acid is important, don’t forget about other pregnancy vitamins and minerals such as calcium, choline, iron, omega-3 and vitamin D for healthy baby AND mom! Choline plays a role in your fetus’s brain development. It’s important to get choline from your diet because it is not Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our takeaway: Timing for making a baby: for an average 28-day menstrual cycle, the baby-making sex(es) need to happen during Day 9 to Day 14 from the start date of your period. There are other measures available to time the window more specifically to your situation. Scientifically, there’s no evidence Read more…