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Contrary to some urban myths, there is not a sexual position that will increase your chances of getting pregnant with twins. In actual fact, most of the factors that can lead to twins are entirely out of your control. Identical twins occur when one fertilized egg splits into two, soon after fertilization. Each of the two embryos then develops into a baby, and because they came from the same egg-and-sperm combination, they have exactly the same...
If you thought that was a joke-title, rest assured that it is not. The so-called “turkey baster method” is actually a commonly used method for at-home artificial insemination, although it is recommended to use a disposable syringe rather than an actual turkey baster. The underlying principle is the idea of delivering a donated semen sample to the cervical area of a woman who is trying to get pregnant, and different people have any number of...
These days, the first place we turn to for information on any topic seems to be the internet. It’s certainly quicker than driving to a library or book store (or worse yet, waiting for an Amazon book to ship), and you have an almost endless variety of sources. Of course, the potential problem also lies within that variety, because all websites are not created equal. When it comes to an important topic like pregnancy, you want to be sure of your...
One of the best selling books in America, somewhere behind the Bible and a few other biggies, is the near-classic “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” It seems that every American mom still has her copy on a shelf, and its guidelines for pregnancy health and behaviors, as well as the week-by-week descriptions of developing baby, are practically memorized by pregnant women. For those who haven’t yet reached the stage of pregnancy,...
The question is more often asked about other household animals than the human ones (“Can my cat get pregnant from my dog?”), especially given the uncouth tendency of many dogs to “hump” different objects. Most people have known a small dog that made sexual motions against people’s legs, or against furniture legs, or against whatever else seemed handy. A dog with this sort of habit might well spend its attentions on other animals in the...
The old song goes, “a horse is a horse is a horse, of course”—and those lyrics, simplistic as they sound, could stand in as a basic definition of the word “species.” In the field of biology sciences, a species is a group of the same type of animal. Horses are one species; people are another species. Biologically speaking, a species of animal is defined as a group of animals that are able to breed with one another and produce fertile...
If you thought that was a joke-title, rest assured that it is not. The so-called...
The question is more often asked about other household animals than the human ones...
The old song goes, “a horse is a horse is a horse, of course”—and those lyrics,...