Are you ready? Are you sure?
Here's our pre-conception lifestyle checklist:

Stop using birth control pills:

• Give your body a two or three month break before you really start trying to conceive. It may take awhile for your body to get back to it's own natural rythym. It can take up to 12 weeks for the effects of birth control pills to leave your system.

Start taking prenatal vitamins:

• Your body has essential needs for creating and maintaining a pregnancy. Follic Acid, Iron and Vitamin B to name a few.

Maintain healthy living:

• Make an appointment for a general physical to ensure that you're in top health. Discuss with your doctor whether you should be concerned about how any medications you might be on would affect or be affected by conception. Are you up to date on your vaccinations?
• Make an appointment for the dentist as well. Have a full set of x-rays taken.You want to be sure that you can treat what you can before you actually do conceive.
• Eating right, eliminating stress, following a moderate exercise plan, eliminating harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and any environmental hazards will help ease and maintain conception.
• Caffeine is a big no no! It's rough getting up and heading off to work without that extra kick sometimes, but studies have shown that women who consume more than 3 cups of coffee daily have lower conception rates by about 27%. Vitamin intake can help boost your energy, and it's a much healthier alternative.

Get to a healthy weight:

• If you've been too careful cutting back calories, or have been enjoying them too much then it's time to get back to your body type's correct weight. A balanced diet that includes all the food groups is key. Remember that you want to provide a healthy environment to nourish a baby. Pregnant or not, you're goal is eating for two now, just not yourself.

Take a step back on the excess

• If you've been training for a marathon, working long hard hours with meals on the fly, or spending more time traveling than at home, it's time to cut back. Find creative ways to get the job done to allow your body to slow down it's metabolism and decrease stress.

Remember mental health is just as important as physical health

• Actually, it might even be more important. Stress, emotional situations and exhaustion all effect how we eat, sleep and function. It's time to get creative here as well and figure out how you can delegate some of your work and home responsibilities so that you have less stress in your own life. Ask yourself, "Does it really need to get done right now/ today?" If the answer is no.....delgate it, or postpone it.

Talk to your partner, know your plan.

• Make sure you're both on the same page emotionally and that you can handle the changes in finances that a baby will bring.
• Review how your career will be affected, and exactly how maternity leave will affect your job and your health insurance.

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