You've heard it over and over: the ideal cycle is 28 days long. Every period-tracking iPhone app is designed with this number in mind, and doctors consider it a healthy standard. But many women regularly experience 30 or even 40-day cycles.

There are few things more nerve-wracking than taking a pregnancy test. Whether you're excited or terrified, everybody who pees on one of those sticks has their heart racing at an Indy 500 speed.

A rainbow baby is the life that follows the storm of a heartbreaking loss, and conceiving a rainbow baby is a testament of enormous faith in life and love.

The act of making a baby can be fun, but when it takes more time than you expected, it can get exhausting and stressful. You may peruse the internet for tips and tricks, and you will become all too familiar with the phrase TTC (trying to conceive) and the forums based around it where women share the methods they used to get pregnant.

It's really amazing to live in such a cool time in the world of medicine, where the best of every culture is being mixed and matched. For every mainstream Western approach to a health issue, you are sure to find access to a homeopathic or Eastern approach, too, as the best of the modern and the ancient worlds come together for treatments and cures.