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Trying to conceive (TTC)

Learn about what people may experience when trying to conceive (TTC). Ovia Health covers issues surrounding getting pregnant, including recommendations on what fertility aids to try. You can also learn about ways to improve chances for getting pregnant, including nutrition, exercise, and self-care tips. Learn how to track your ovulation cycle with Ovia Fertility, so you have a better idea on how your body may react.

A woman sleeping in bed sideways because it’s her bedtime ritual to help her sleep better.

Help yourself get better sleep with these routines

A woman asleep in her bed because she learned how to sleep better.

Five small changes that can help you sleep better than ever

A woman on her phone in bed, representing an activity she should avoid before bed.

Before bedtime no-nos: Stuff to avoid that won’t help you sleep

A person watching a meditating video on their laptop while meditating.

Health and wellness

The basics of meditation

A person at the grocery store trying to pick what they're going to buy.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Wild vs. farmed fish: unraveling the truth

Two women smiling while talking about how to be an advocate for their healthcare.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

Advocate for your health by bringing a support person with you to appointment

Women talking to her doctor trying to figure out if she is the best healthcare provider for her.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

Find a healthcare provider that really gets you

Women interviewing healthcare providers to decide if they are responsible.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

When not to settle: choosing the healthcare provider who is responsible

A couple learning how to have better sex by being more affectionate and touching each other's faces in bed.

Have better sex by connecting with yourself and your partner 

A woman who knows how much sleep she needs taking a day time nap in bed.

Do you know how much sleep is enough…or too much?

Woman in bed trying to increase her deep sleep by reading and drinking tea.

Bedtime goodies that may help you boost that deep sleep already

A woman who understands the importance of sleep taking a day time nap in her bed.

Restful nights can make happy days: Are you getting enough sleep?

This image represents a person talking about sex with their partner while laying in bed.

Learn to communicate better in the bedroom and really connect

A person checking their phone while also using her laptop to research information about the BRCA gene.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Learn about the BRCA gene and why it’s important

A person talking on their phone about their abnormal Pap smear results.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Abnormal pap smears: Everything you need to know

Two women running outside.

Health and wellness | Exercise and movement

A beginner’s guide to exercise: starting at square one

An illustration of green vegetables.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

It’s not easy getting greens: Six ways to get more vegetables in your life

A graphic of a leaf growing to represent the Ovia Fertility application.

How to use Ovia Fertility

How Ovia can help you be your healthiest, happiest self

Ovarian egg traveling in fallopian tubes during ovulation representing when you ovulate.

Learn about when you ovulate: One egg’s epic journey

An egg traveling in fallopian tubes to indicate ovulation signs.

All about ovulation: One egg’s epic journey

Here’s when your fertile window opens and closes

A doctor talking to their patient about what to expect from a future Pap smear with a clipboard in their hand.

Reproductive health | Reproductive healthcare

Are you getting a Pap smear? Here’s the process.

A person traveling checking their map to represent the question: 'how does travel affect ovulation?'

Reproductive health | Ovulation

When your cycle’s out of sync: how travel can affect ovulation

Three people talking and getting ready to go for a run as part of their exercise routine.

Health and wellness | Exercise and movement

How to start an exercise routine – and stick with it

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Health and wellness

Helpful facts about migraines

How to use Ovia Fertility

Getting started with Ovia: Your quick start guide

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Health and wellness

What to do about increased or nervous energy

People shopping for oil at the grocery store.

Health and wellness

Oils are awesome: From olive to argan, the best oils you didn’t realize

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Health and wellness | Nutrition

So you’ve decided to give up dairy…

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Health and wellness

What’s the deal with gluten?

Image of fish and seasonings.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Seafood and mercury levels: What you should know

Image of a person with several multivitamins in their hand.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Good for you or good for nothing? What you should know about taking a multivitamin

Image of a persons reproductive eggs in a microscope.

Preconception planning

Pros and cons of freezing your eggs

Image of leafy greens that could be included in a new, healthy diet.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Six meals to boost your greens

Image of abstract cycles to represent a normal or irregular period cycle.

Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Menstrual cycle length: Just what’s normal? 

A pile of low-dose aspirin.

Health and wellness

Low-dose aspirin: What’s the deal?

A person staring off in to the distance wondering if a past abortion affect pregnancy

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Future pregnancy with past abortion history

A person checking their watch while holding their phone.

Health and wellness | Exercise and movement

Obvious and not-so-obvious benefits of exercise

Woman getting a mammogram screening from her doctor.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Understand your mammogram screening

A person using their phone to track moods when trying to conceive

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your moods with Ovia

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Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Managing your period as a trans, genderqueer, or non-binary person

A person holding the area near their uterus to represent endometriosis.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Endometriosis

A couple where one person is sitting on the others lap and they are practicing communicating about sex.

Reproductive health | Sex and intimacy

How to ask for what you want in bed: It’s sexier (and less awkward) than you might think

Sperm swimming towards an egg in a microscope to represent what conception is.

Preconception planning

Learn about conception: Babymaking 101

A graphic of a drop on an ovulation test to represent the importance of tracking your ovulation test with Ovia Fertility.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your ovulation tests with Ovia

Graphic of underwear to represent cervical fluid tracking.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your cervical fluid with Ovia

A thermometer to indicate tracking basal body temperature.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your basal body temperature with Ovia

A bed to represent how sleep and fertility are connected.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking your sleep with Ovia

Fish, nuts, and seeds to represent foods in a diet that contain omega 3 and 6.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Are you getting your omegas? 

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Go green: Six ways to work more greens into your diet

A cellphone, pen, bag, and other items on a bed to represent using Ovia Fertility versus other tools to track your ovulation.

Reproductive health

Using Ovia to track your ovulation – even with an irregular cycle

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Health and wellness | Nutrition

The good, the bad, the misunderstood: What you need to know about fats

A plate of salad with avocado, pomegranate, and jicama salad with creamy avocado dressing.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: avocado, pomegranate, and jicama salad with creamy avocado dressing

Person circling a day on the calendar with a pink marker to represent how to track your period.

Health and wellness

When’s your period? How to track yours with Ovia, and how we predict when it will come next

A person using the Ovia Fertility tracker on their cellphone device.

How to use Ovia Fertility

From cervical fluid to sleep: How tracking your body’s signs and symptoms can identify when you ovulate

Two plates of cauliflower rice with vegitables.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: light cauliflower fried ‘rice’

A bowl of vegetarian lasagna with a spoon next to it, ready to eat.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: vegetarian lasagna soup with zucchini and mushrooms

Plate of tomato, basil, and garlic bruschetta from the article recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: classic tomato, basil, and garlic bruschetta

A tray of almond butter chocolate chip cookies.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: almond butter chocolate chunk cookies

A bowl of curried carrot soup with garlic bread next to it.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: curried carrot shorba

A plate of cucumber tomato salad.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: cucumber salad with white wine vinaigrette

A girl sitting down outside and writing in a notebook.

Reproductive health | Menstruation

The important details about the menstrual cycle and what it means to be irregular

Chickpeas in a small container that can be a salad topping or eaten alone as a snack.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: roasted chipotle, lime, and garlic chickpeas

A healthy recipe of lamb, quinoa, and lentils, that can help boost fertility.

Fertility recipes: Lamb koftas with date lentil quinoa and yogurt coconut creamed spinach

A kale salad made from a recipe, the salad is on a plate with a fork on it.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: kale salad with pickled pumpkin, cilantro, and lime

A container of healthy truffle balls from the article's recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: avocado almond joy truffles

A red plate of sesame beef and stir fry.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: sesame beef and vegetable stir fry with soy and ginger 

Image of the feet of several people walking on a treadmill.

Health and wellness | Exercise and movement

Five exercise myths busted

A bowl of lentils and kale with black rice and spices.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: moroccan spiced lentils with kale and black rice 

Several gluten free chocolate chip cookies.

Increase fertility

Fertility recipes: gluten-free chocolate chip cookies

A blue bowl of roasted carrot soup.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: garlicky roasted carrot soup

Scientist examining a patient's blood sample in a lab.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

What you should know about the Zika virus

A health symbol to represent tracking physical symptoms of ovulation with Ovia Health.

Aches, cramps, and swollen breasts: why you should track your physical symptoms

A person holding an egg meant to represent an egg donation for someone trying to get pregnant.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Egg donation: Thinking it through

Many eggs sitting in a carton to represent how long an female egg is viable after ovulation.

Fertile window for eggs and sperm

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Health and wellness

Change in vaginal discharge: What it means

Table with several creme brûlée desserts made from healthy ingredients and an easy recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: Crème brulee

A person looking up signs of PCOS on their cellphone.

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Could I have PCOS?

A person checking their heart rate on their watch while listening to music on their headphones.

Health and wellness | Exercise and movement

How much exercise is too much?

Four egg shells.

Preconception health

What is anovulation?

A person laughing in a red and white stripped room.

Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Are my periods irregular?

Homemade chicken noodle soup made from a recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chicken noodle soup

Pumpkin blueberry muffins in the oven.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: pumpkin blueberry muffins

A mediterranean pasta made from a recipe

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: mediterranean pasta

A bowl of apple and pumpkin oatmeal.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: apple and pumpkin oatmeal

A plate of stir fry brussel sprouts with garlic.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: stir fried garlic brussel sprouts

A bowl of Caramelized onion hummus.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: caramelized onion hummus

A kale and cabbage salad with lemon.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: kale and cabbage salad

A crock pot quinoa and veggie stew.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: crock pot quinoa and veggie stew

A plate of chicken red Thai curry next to a drink.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chicken red Thai curry

A sweet potato burger with a bun falling off the side of it on a white plate .

Health and wellness

Fertility recipes: simple and sweet potato burgers

A bowl of sweet potato soup with croutons made from this recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: sweet potato soup and cheese croutons

A bowl of butternut squash from this recipe with oranges next to the bowl on the table.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: butternut squash barley risotto

Red plate with salmon and asparagus made from this salmon en papillote recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: salmon en papillote

A plate of roasted cauliflower salad next to a fork.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: roasted cauliflower salad

Two cups of almond butter granola from a recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: almond butter granola

Two stuffed delicata squash on a plate from a recipe.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: stuffed delicata squash

A mint, limeade mocktail in a clear glass with ice in it.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: mint limeade mocktail

A plate of chocolate gingerbread brownies.

Health and wellness | Nutrition

Fertility recipes: chocolate gingerbread brownies

A phone on the bed to represent how to use it to track your luteal phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the luteal phase

A person using their fertility tracker app from Ovia Health.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the fertile window

A person on their laptop and cellphone looking up information on how to track fertility at their proliferative phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the proliferative phase

A person looking up on their phone how to track their menstrual phase.

How to use Ovia Fertility

Tracking fertility during the menstrual phase

Woman, seated on kitchen counter, looks at her phone

Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

PCOS

Health and hospital symbol.

Health and wellness | Mental health

Who gets mood swings and why

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Health and wellness

Forgetfulness: Learn the reasons behind it

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Health and wellness

The meaning behind dark urine

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Health and wellness

Clumsiness: Is it just having an “off” day?

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Reproductive health | Menstrual cycle health

Helpful information about vaginal spotting or bleeding

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Reproductive health | Sex and intimacy

Painful intercourse: Causes and prevention

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Pregnancy loss

Surgical treatment options for early pregnancy loss

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Pregnancy loss

Nonsurgical options for early pregnancy loss

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Oily hair: What you should know

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Why the metallic taste and what it means

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Health and wellness

Helpful information about itchy hands

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Health and wellness

Learn more about itchy feet

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Fertility signs

Intense lower back pain: What you should know

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Health and wellness

Infrequent urination: What causes it and can it be avoided?

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Health and wellness

Increased thirst: Do you need to drink more water?

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Health and wellness

What really causes hiccups?

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Health and wellness

Hemorrhoids: What you should know

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Health and wellness

Smelling really good lately? Here’s why your body might be doing it

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

Reasons why heavy vaginal bleeding might be occurring

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Reproductive health | Reproductive issues and conditions

What is acid reflux?

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Health and wellness

Causes for green or yellow vaginal discharge

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Health and wellness

Experiencing frequent infections? What your body might be trying to say

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Health and wellness

Fever: Why your temperature goes up

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Health and wellness

Fainting 101: Why does it happen?

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Health and wellness

Why you might have a flushed face

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Health and wellness

The reasons behind excessive sweating

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Health and wellness

Cloudy or strong-smelling urine: Is it something to worry about?

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Health and wellness

Here’s why you might be feeling abdominal or pelvic cramping