Dr.Amos: 101 TTC and Pregnancy Q&As

Trying To Get Pregnant

1. Healthy Pregnancy Starts Before You Conceive
2. Preconception Checklist (interactive)
3. Getting Pregnant After Birth Control
4. Why Prenatal Vitamins and other supplements are important
5. Are my menstrual cycles regular? (interactive)
6. What are my chances and odds getting pregnant?
7. Negative Pregnancy test and pregnancy odds
8. What is the pregnancy test about and how do you do it?
9. When does the pregnancy test become positive
10. What is an ovulation predictor kit and how and when to do it
11. When am I fertile. Your best time to make love (interactive)
12. What are normal hCG levels?
13. The BIG O: How do I know I am ovulating?
14. Preparing for Pregnancy Emotionally
15. Planning a Pregnancy With a Medical Condition (Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease)
16. Choosing Your Pregnancy Health Care Provider
17. Getting Pregnant: Understanding Conception
18. How to Improve Your Fertility
19. He needs to improve his fertility too - Tips to improve his sperm count

Infertility

1. When to see an infertility specialist (RE) - interactive
2. Infertility causes and treatment - An overview
3. The first visit with the RE
4. Anovulation - why some women don't ovulate (PCOS,etc)
5. Fertility and Infertility tests and work-up
6. Endometriosis and other tubal problems
7. Clomid and other infertility infertility medications
8. In-vitro fertilization (IVF) and ICSI

Sex

1. Sexuality and getting pregnant (Positions, orgasm, etc)
2. Can You Time Your Pregnancy to have the baby at a certain month?

Food and Lifestyle

1. Healthy foods to improve your fertility when TTC
2. Food No-Nos when TTC and in pregnancy
3. Your weight counts when TTC: Extremes of weight and fertility
4. Excercises does and don'ts during Pregnancy
5. Traveling
6. Fitness After The Baby is Born
7. Baby Fat
8. Dieting
9. Hair coloring
10. Maternity Clothes : Dressing For Your Pregnancy
11. Beauty treatments in pregnancy (hair coloring, nails, saunas, massages..)
12. Taking care of your teeth during pregnancy
13. Junk food in pregnancy

Pregnancy

1. The First Symptoms of Pregnancy
2. Common tests before and during the first prenatal visit
3. Prenatal Care: What happens at Your Doctor's first visit
4. A look at common tests you can expect to undergo during your pregnancy.
5. Multiple Pregnancy (twins/triplets)
6. Bleeding During Pregnancy
7. Tubal (Ectopic) Pregnancy: What are the symptoms of tubal pregnancy?
8. First trimester Miscarriage
9. 2nd trimester miscarriage, incompetent cervix
10. Sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy (Chlamydia, HIV, ..)
11. Amniocentesis, Chorionic Villus Sampling
12. First trimester screen (nuchal screen, ..)
13. Anatomic Ultrasound in pregnancy at 20 weeks
14. Quad Marker Screen

Common Pregnancy Complaints

1. Stress  
2. Sleep
3. Emotional Changes
4. Morning Sickness
5. Back Pain
6. Skin Issues
7. Constipation
8. Heartburn
9. Hair Loss
10. Abdominal Pain

Medical and Other Issues

1. Hypertension in pregnancy
2. Glucose Screening and diabetes
3. Kidney, lung, liver disease in pregnancy
4. Down syndrome and other chromosomal anomalies
5. Fetal growth and growth problems (tto small IUGR, too big)
6. Preterm labor
7. Posterm pregnancy
8. Premature rupture of fetal membranes

Labor and Delivery

1. How do you know you are in labor
2. Cesarean section
3. Vaginal delivery
4. Anesthesia during labor
5. Operative deliveries (forceps, vacuum, episiotomy)
6. Breastfeeding