Is Your Lifestyle Preventing You From Having Kids

Lifestyle has a lot to do without being able to conceive. Couples who can't conceive are just starting to get a grip on this important fact.
The factors that are known to increase the risk of both male and female infertility include many other lifestyle related matters such as smoking, drinking alcohol to excess, stress, poor diet, excessive athletic training and being overweight or underweight.
Now, in the same way that a couple can decide that they are willing to give up materialistic wealth in order to have a child at a younger age, they can also make lifestyle decisions to change or remove some of these factors which make it less likely that trying to have a baby will be successful.
For example, as reported by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, there is evidence that smoking damages a woman’s ovaries and the amount that she smokes will have a direct effect on the amount of damage being done. Furthermore, smoking accelerates the loss of eggs brought on by the advancing years, whilst 'Smoking is strongly associated with an increased risk of spontaneous miscarriage and possibly ectopic pregnancy as well.'
Consequently, it is obvious that doing something as simple as giving up smoking would significantly increase the chances of having a baby. And of course, improving your nutrition levels, giving up alcohol and maintaining a well-balanced body weight will all help as well.
Then there is the question of sexual hygiene, because it is also true that one of the major causes of infertility are sexually transmitted infections or STI's, and these are far more prevalent than most people realize.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease is a major cause of infertility in women, and one of the biggest causes of PID is Chlamydia, which according to this site affects 1 in 10 of young British people under the age of 25.
Twenty percent of Americans have herpes are over the age of twelve. Eighty percent of people with this problem have no idea they have a STD at all.
Basically, sexually transmitted infections and diseases (many of which are not even apparent, with the carrier completely unaware that they are in fact a carrier) are one of the major causes of infertility, so monogamy and practicing safe sex is an absolute must for anyone who is serious about having a baby.
For both men and women who believe that they are infertile, making these lifestyle changes can make a huge difference to their ability to have a baby.
Whether it is giving up smoking or drinking or whether you simply need to lose or gain weight, it is a fact that changing your life can significantly influence your ability to conceive.
Consequently, for anyone who believes themselves to be infertile, making these changes should be nothing more than basic common sense.

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Do Your Kids Have Fear of Flying?

Most kids are not born with a fear of flying but looking at footage of things like the 9/11 disaster gives them the idea. I blame a lot of the fear that kids have of flying on watching too much reality television in general.
The majority of children do not have a natural fear of flying, so unless your child has previously been involved in a flying situation that was traumatic or scary, it is likely that there is some other underlying reason if your child is scared of flying. In fact child psychologists say that many times the fear of flying has nothing at all to do with your kid's
Sometimes, children will have exactly the same scenario in their life as highlighted in the previous section of this report. Something bad happens in their life and they transferred the negative feelings about whatever it was that happened to flying.
For instance, in a modern world where divorce is becoming increasingly common, it is not especially unusual for children to have to fly from one estranged parent to visit the other. In this scenario, it is fairly obvious that the child involved will have mixed or negative emotions and not unnaturally, these negative emotions could very easily be transferred to the process of flying itself.
It is also a fact that children are often very well tuned to their parents emotions and feelings, so if you feel somehow upset or concerned about flying, it is quite likely that your children will feel exactly the same as a reflection of your psychological mien.
So, if your child starts to exhibit signs of being scared of flying, consider whether there is anything in the surrounding psychological situation that could be causing them to feel this way.
Air travel is a fact of modern life, something that even the youngest child now takes for granted. If you want to get from point A to point B, flying is generally the quickest option – sometimes the only option, especially if it involves overseas travel – and with prices at an all time low, anyone and everyone can fly nowadays.
This ability to jet off to all corners of the globe is one that has allowed people greater travel freedoms than they have ever had before, but for some, this freedom comes with a price tag attached. Not everyone is a good flyer, and certainly, not everyone actually enjoys flying.
For instance, whilst statistics compiled by the US Department of Transport suggest that flying is 29 times safer than travelling in an automobile, many people are simply terrified of getting on a plane ever.
If you want your kid to be okay psychologically on a plane just explain the odds of an accident happening in plain English. This should allay the fears that have been instilled in the kid by the media.

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