Taking exercise and even doing housework can boost a woman’s chances of getting pregnant, a study suggests.
Women who were most active in the year before trying fertility treatment were three times as likely to conceive as those who were least active, according to US research. However, exercising after an embryo conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) was implanted seemed to make no difference.
Kathryn Calhoun, of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who led the research, asked 108 typical women seeking IVF treatment about their exercise levels using a questionnaire called the Kaiser Physical Activity Survey (KPAS). “The thing