Once you start considering doing a fertility treatment, the acronyms and different treatment options will start piling up. It's hard enough dealing with the fact that you might not be able to conceive naturally, and on top of that trying to find your way in the maze that fertility treatments can seem to be. We've put together a very compressed and quick guide of a few of the terms that will be thrown at you.

Taking folic acid supplements will reduce the risk of spinal defects in your baby by 70%. Studies have shown that over a third of Irish women do not take folic acid supplement before and during early pregnancy. Ireland has on of the highest rates of neural tube defects (NTD) in Europe, between 49 to 93 babies born every year, according to the Department of Health.

 

When trying to get pregnant the most important information you will need to learn and understand is how to calculate your fertile days. You need to figure out approximately when your ovulation occurs to chart your fertility and increase the chances to get pregnant.

If you are trying to get pregnant and searched a bit on fertility or infertility, you have probably been bombarded with information, advice and tips. You might still only be trying to figure out when your ovulation happens, but getting pregnant seems quite a lot mor complicated these days.
Don't believe everything you hear or read, while some is amusing there are plenty of myths around fertility and infertility.