The Conceiving Essentials

Nutritional experts typically recommend women and men take prenatal vitamins 3 months before starting to try for a family, and to continue taking it until you achieve your pregnancy goals. Women can continue taking prenatal vitamins while pregnant, while men can stop once a baby has been conceived.

For women, this is because it takes a while to reach a new nutritional status—one that’s crucial for the initial weeks of a baby’s life. In the first 28 days, some of a baby’s most important organs form including the heart and neural tube which become the brain and spinal cord.

Since most women don’t find out that they are pregnant until 4-8 weeks, it’s important that your body has reached optimal nutrient levels before you even know your baby is there.

For men, this is because it typically takes 3 months to regenerate healthy sperm.

Women should take two capsules daily. For men, it’s one capsule daily. Easy!

Both The Prenatal and Male Prenatal capsules are about 2cm in length and 1cm wide, about the same size as a standard multivitamin tablet.

The Prenatal comes with 60 capsules in a jar. The Male Prenatal comes with 30 capsules in a jar. Each jar will last both of you 1 month, and you can purchase a refill at any time or subscribe to get your Prenatals delivered automatically.

Ovulation generally starts about halfway through your menstrual cycle, so the best time to use an ovulation test is around the 10th day of your cycle.

Uncap the test and pee on the absorbent tip for at least 3 seconds. Or, pee into a clean cup and dip half of the tip in for 10 seconds. Lay the test flat on a non-absorbent clean surface and wait 10-30 minutes for the red line(s) to appear.

The ovulation test was not designed to detect pregnancy, so it should not be used to test for it. But, if you haven’t yet realised that you're pregnant, you might keep using an ovulation test and be getting positive results.

Yes, pregnancy tests do have an expiration date, although it depends on the brand and make of the kit. Generally speaking, pregnancy tests have a shelf life of 2-3 years.

While keeping a pregnancy test sealed for as long as possible can slow its ageing down, ultimately the expiry date still holds true as the pregnancy test will lose accuracy since the product degrades.

The expiration date of our pregnancy tests is located at the back right corner of the box.

After testing and waiting 5 minutes, if two lines show up, even if the test line (T) is very faint, that’s a positive result.

If the test remains with the one red control line (C), this means you’re not pregnant or, it’s too early to be testing.

Note: If no lines appear, the test may be faulty or out of date. Please test again with a fresh stick.

When used correctly, home pregnancy tests are generally very accurate. Most tests claim to provide over 99% accurate results when used on or after the first day of your missed period.

However, despite most pregnancy tests providing accurate results, mishaps can still occur. If you have doubts about your test result or if your symptoms persist, follow up with a healthcare provider for the most accurate result.