{"id":216037,"date":"2025-04-23T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mom.com\/?p=216037"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:54:01","slug":"what-is-fertility-maxxing-trying-to-conceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.com\/getting-pregnant\/what-is-fertility-maxxing-trying-to-conceive","title":{"rendered":"WTF Is ‘Fertility Maxxing’? Why It’s Gaining Attention Among People Trying to Get Pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read this headline and thought, “What in the FRESH h*ll is fertility maxxing?” you’re not alone. An X user named Amanda<\/a> had the same question. In the most basic terms, “fertility maxxing” refers to maximizing your fertility — but we have to go a little deeper into the history of the term to truly understand it.<\/p>

Let’s start off by defining the suffix “-maxxing.” The suffix began popping up with the term “looksmaxxing,” a word that originated on misogynistic message boards. According to Dazed Digital<\/a><\/em>, “Once confined to incel message boards<\/a>, the meaning of its origin, looksmaxxing, is in the name: maximizing one’s appearance.” <\/p>

The suffix has since been added to a variety of other words: “sleepmaxxing” if you’re changing your lifestyle to boost your sleep hygiene, “gymmaxxing” if you’re working out all the time, and “watermaxxing” if you’re doing everything you can to drink more water and boost your hydration.<\/p>

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So that brings us to “fertility maxxing.” One person on Threads<\/a> described it as “a very weird thing I’ve seen popping up in the trade-off, alt right, Christian circles.” She continued to explain, “They’re eating raw beef testicles and ovaries and drinking raw milk to help them have like 10 kids on a homestead.”<\/p>

According to Megha on X, fertility maxxing is popular among Gen Z. In a Tweet<\/a>, she wrote, “If lululemon was smart they’d make a line of loose, cotton, breathable workout clothes that still look cute. Gen z is fertility maxxing. They’re no longer interested in restricting lymph flow with slave manufactured plastic body condoms for workout clothes.”<\/p>

Much of the conversation seems to have been sparked by a video created by Cali, a 20-year-old content creator who wants to be a tradwife<\/a>. She shared this video<\/a> on her Instagram account (@christwithcali<\/a>), where it got 1.7 million views:<\/p>

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