How can my health care provider help me conceive when I'm ready?

How can my health care provider help me conceive when I'm ready?

Jay Goldberg (Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: What can I do now, to help me conceive when I'm ready later? and more...

Your health care provider can inform you, preconception, of some beneficial things to do, to ease your ability to conceive. Your healthcare provider can supplement your diet with folic acid to decrease potential problems. There are a lot of screening tests that your healthcare provider can do on certain ethnic populations, like with African-Americans, you can test for sickle cell and in the Jewish population, there's a whole panel of recessive disorders. A lot of these things, healthcare providers don't actually check until you've conceived. Your healthcare provider can also provide you with vaccines against German measles which is rubella and chicken pox. Your healthcare provider can administer these before you try to conceive, if they're thinking way in advance; your healthcare provider can administer some of these vaccines several months in advance to decrease the chance of you getting one of these infections during your pregnancy which can be detrimental to pregnancy.