Nutritionist Caroline says:When it comes to comfort food, you can't beat boiled eggs and soldiers, but while you're pregnant you should avoid eating raw or partially cooked eggs. This is to cut the risk of a very unpleasant type of food poisoning

GP Rob says: For the best chance of healthy sperm, a man shouldn't smoke or use recreational drugs. Ideally he should also refrain from consuming alcohol, or keep consumption to a minimum.Eating healthily is imortant, as sperm need vitamins A, C and E, and the minerals zinc and s...

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If you've heard about the health benefits of omega-3 for a healthy pregnancy, but are unsure how much you need, European Council recommendations should help.It advises pregnant and breastfeeding women to have 200mg of DHA - a poly unsaturated omega

fillings will provide extra vitamins.This recipe makes: 10-12 pancakes You will need:70g (2½ oz) Plain white flour70g (2½ oz) Plain wholemeal flour2x size 3 eggs250 ml (8fl oz) milk, full fat or semi-skimmedA little vegetable oil or spray for frying

First foods for baby should be easy to digest and unlikely to cause an allergy. But what foods should you definitely steer clear of in the early days of weaning? When can I give my baby...?

of sunlight (10-15 minutes) is important.'Action on Pre-Eclampsia: www.apec.org.uk 

, but the first two attempts ended in miscarriages. In 1995 we visited a fertility clinic where drugs were used to stimulate my ovaries into producing 32 eggs. Eighteen of them were fertilised to become embryos. Three were transferred to my womb and the rest were

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the procedure.Step 5: fertilising the eggsYour eggs are mixed with your partner's or the donor's sperm and cultured in the laboratory for 16-20 hours. They are then checked to see if any have been fertilised.If the sperm are few or weak, each egg may need