[30somethingmom]

After reading LB's post on her success with becoming pregnant after losing weight, I started to research weight and fertility. I read today that both being overweight and underweight can affect your fertility by upsetting the hormonal balance in your body. For women, being overweight interferes with normal egg production, and for men, with normal sperm production.

Here is the article on the effects of body weight on fertility:

http://www.pregnancymd.org/weight-and-infertility.htm

[jrg]

You might find this of interest. It relates to your post about weight affecting infertility. You can listen via the radio page at Creating A Family: : Home~ (you can listen live or download the archived show as a podcast)

"Creating a Family: Talk about Infertility and Adoption
June 17/12:00 PM Eastern Time
How overweight or underweight do you have to be to have your fertility impaired? How much do you really have to lose to improve your odds? Does it matter how you lose the weight? Join me and my guest Dr. Lubna Pal, professor at [COLOR=#00CED1 ! important][COLOR=#00CED1 ! important]Yale [COLOR=#00CED1 ! important]School[/color][/color][/color] http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/l...rey_loader.gif
of Medicine to discuss the relationship of weight to infertility."