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[17 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
When is my baby due?

Are you trying to conceive and need to estimate when your next fertile date is? Or perhaps you already know you are pregnant and would like to know your estimated due date?
Hopefully this calculator will help on both counts!
Oh and congratulations!!
Why not join our forum where you can talk to other couples trying for a baby and find out what worked for them. We also have a steady flow of Mama’s expecting a bundle so perhaps your due date club has already been formed in our forum where you can share the up’s and down’s of pregnancy!

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[29 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
HcG levels

HcG levels
How to test for pregnancy.
When a women becomes pregnant  her body starts to produce a hormone called HcG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) this hormone is what is detected in both urine and blood based tests to give a positive pregnancy result. What are HcG Levels ?
HcG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) is a hormone that is produced by the embryo when its starts to implant itself into the uterine lining (implantation) and begins to grow. This occurs approximately 6-10 days after conception. As it grows, the amount of HcG increases and doubles about every three days. The purpose of HcG is to keep the estrogen and progesterone levels at their appropriate levels until the placenta has developed enough to take this function over. HcG levels will reach …