Getting pregnant

Having a child today as compared to having children 20 years ago is quite different. These days we can make a conscious choice about whether or not to have children, and we can also choose when we will have them.

Today many factors including career, travel, a desire for independence and the urge to experience more of life prior to settling down and starting a family, have caused women to delay, or in some cases completely avoid settling down and starting a family at a young age.

More and more women (and men) are choosing to put off parenting until a later age. This decision may be due to the desire to accomplish individual goals, or simply because we feel we are just too busy 'living' to fit a baby into our lives.

We plan and control so many aspects of our lives that when the time comes to have a baby, we are in danger of approaching conception, pregnancy and birth with the same desire to regiment the process. Unfortunately the world of conception, pregnancy and babies, tends not to work that way. Rather it will all take place as mother nature intended (which is sometimes not necessarily what you had intended).

In our Conception area, we aim to supply you with the information you need to prepare yourselves for pregnancy, and to understand conception a little better.

If you are planning your first child, we also invite you to talk to new parents to find out what this parenting thing is really like in our Discussion Groups

 If you are planning to fall pregnant take a look at some of these great resources at EB!

Become an EB member today! Essential Information - Conception

Fact Sheets - Conception

Tools - Use our Basal Temperature Charts and Due Date Calculator

Directory - Search for goods and services in over 60 categories inc Fertility and Conception

Baby Name Finder - over 5,000 names - coming soon! 

Conception Diaries - Record your experience of own or browse over 3000 diaries

Pregnancy Announcements - Announce your pregnancy to the EB Community! 

Forums - including Trying to Conceive, Conception, Assisted Conception and TTC Buddy Groups

 
EB hosts one of the largest women's forums in Australia with between 500-800 members online in regular daily periods - You can join a discussion group with other EB members in your own neighbourhood - EB member meeting area

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