Fertility

There are various factors which can affect fertility in both men and women, including certain lifestyle factors and health issues amongst other causes. While woman are more fertile during different periods of their menstrual cycle, men can also be more virile at different times of the month. Huggies can help you better understand female and male fertility and ways you can improve your fertility as well as that of your partner.

• Male fertility
• Female fertility

If you are trying to fall pregnant and are looking to optimise your chances, you should employ the use of a fertility monitor. A fertility monitor is a device that helps you determine when you are most fertile and therefore have the best chances of conceiving and falling pregnant. Your most fertile time is generally the first few days after ovulation and a fertility monitor helps you identify this time. The fertility monitor does this by analysing hormones (usually LH) in urine and deducing your level of fertility. These "urine test sticks" are some of the most commonly used fertility monitors

• Fertility monitor
• Fertility test
• Fertility cycle

Both male and female fertility rely on a delicate balance of hormones which can be influenced by environmental factors ranging from the food you eat to toxins in the environment, stress and other emotional factors, illness and physical activity.

One of the key things that women can do to increase fertility is to be aware of your usual cycle and how external factors can influence this. For men, an understanding of their own fertility cycle and the steps to better sperm health is also a critical component of increasing fertility.

• Increase fertility
• Fertility treatment
• Acupuncture fertility
• Fertility clinic
• Natural fertility

The fertility rate refers to the average number of children that are born to a woman who is a member of a particular demographic population, during her reproductive years (internationally these are nominated as the ages between 15 and 44).

In 2008, Australia set a new record for the number of births, with 296,600 births registered. The Australian national fertility rate jumped to 1.97 babies per woman, compared to a fertility rate of 1.92 in 2007.

• Fertility rate
• Fertility age