For both men and women food and fertility are linked together. Stick to a balanced diet to boost your chances of a Healthy baby. Eating several servings of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and calcium rich foods may help in developing a healthy baby inside the womb. Not getting enough nutrients may affect your periods, making it difficult to predict when you ovulate. And you may not ovulate at all if you’re significantly underweight or obese. High amount of nutrients present in the balanced diet helps in making the baby healthy.

Here are some break down foods, activities and habits to avoid when you are trying to Conceive.

1) Smoking:- If you are already planning on quitting smoking once you get pregnant and you defintely should but avoiding cigarettes now will be a huge benefit too. As it takes longer for smokers to conceive and smoking makes a woman’s eggs more prone to genetic abnormalities. Smoking even increases the risk of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.

2) Too Much Caffeine:- Too much caffeine for women in a day may cause fertility problems. In fact study has found that women who consumes more than the equivalent of one cup of coffee per day were half as likely to become pregnant, per cycle, as women who drank less. Plus, you won’t want to overdo it during pregnancy (caffeine interferes with your ability to absorb iron, can dehydrate you and, in high doses, can increase miscarriage and pretem birthrisk) so it’s worth cutting back too much caffeine from your diet now.

3) Excessive Drinking:- Excessive drinking whether it’s beer, wine or whisky when exceeds two drinks per day may cause irregualar periods, lack of ovulation and abnormal estrogen and progesterone levels, which can make it harder to conceive. It may even put your baby at risk for fetal alcohal spectrum disorders and it will take about two weeks or more after you conceive to know that you are actually pregnant. It goes same for your partner if he is having excessive drinks (5 drinks a week) Can reduce his sperm quality.

4) Extremes In Weight:- If you are extremely overweight or obese or underweight it could cause you to have irregular or missed periods and if you are extremely underweight it could make you stop ovulating altogether. Obesity may increase the risk of pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes birth defects and the need for a C – Section. So it’s important to be at a healthy weight when you are trying to conceive. If you fall in either of these categories talk to your doctor about how to get and maintain a healthy weight.

5) Skipping The Veggies:- If your body is in healthy state you are more likely to conceive so eating healthy and right is essential. If you are skipping veggies form your diet it may not be a good choice for both mother and the unborn.

Apart from this, if you want any information related to your pregnancy and want to know the growth of your baby, movement & heartbeats then visit any near by pregnancy clinic. If you are looking for an ultrasound scan center in Yorkshire or its nearby to your area, then Miracle Inside is the best ultrasound baby scanning clinic in Leeds.