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Why YOU are not getting pregnant (And what YOU can do about it) – part 1


So perhaps you recently (or maybe not so recently) got married and you were expecting your bump to be swelling by now but it isn’t. Or perhaps you are simply tired about the infidelity of men that have come your way so much that you simply decided to have your baby and forget about men but after some months of trying, you are still not getting pregnant. The little consoling factor is that “you are not alone in this boat”. This is pretty much the frustration of many others – men and women alike. In this post we have put together a comprehensive list of all the possible reasons why you are not getting pregnant.

Now let’s take some time and examine them one after the other;

  1. When last did you visit your gynaecologist?

Did you visit your gynae before your wedding? Women are advised to pay a visit to their gynaecologist to be checked out to confirm that all is well as part of pre-marital medical screening. At that visit, your specialist will check that your tubes are fine, your womb has no problem and that you have normal levels of all necessary hormones. Once all these are declared normal, then now let the games begin….. “Lets have some babies… boo”. But in case you did not do that, the next best time to get checked by your gynaecologist is now.

2. How long have you been trying?

Several medical and social researches performed notwithstanding the demographics or geographical location of couples turn out that even for women who are having their regular menstrual cycle, only 20 – 40% of them will get pregnant in any given month. Wow, this seems pretty low. Yup, meaning there could be nothing wrong with you but you only need to try for some more months. Maybe it will happen in the 7th or 9th or 11th month. Several fertility doctors will under normal circumstance not rush any treatment on couples who have been trying to get pregnant without success under 12 months – yea, that’s a whole year of having intercourse at the right time. Fertility doctors will however recommend treatment when there is an imminent problem that could prevent pregnancy or when the woman’s age is quite advanced (38 years or more)

3. What is your Age?

There is no concrete consensus or a watershed mark below which or beyond which a woman is said to be subfertile but in medical circles, it seems a generally acceptable fact that from age 35 years, the fecundability of women begin to decline. With increasing age, the quality and quantity of a woman’s egg begin to decline. With increasing age, the pool of eggs left in a woman’s ovaries; what has been termed as the ovarian reserve begins to drop and women of advanced age release fewer eggs than their younger counterparts during follicle recruitment for ovulation.

4. Are your fallopian tubes opened (Patent)?

In the lower abdominal area of women lie two slender tubes that connect the ovaries (where the eggs are made) to the uterus/womb. Someway somehow, these tubes can be blocked by an injury or an infection such as chlamydia or yet still they can be blocked by some unusual growth that may be benign (not cancerous). Nature will have it that, a sperm travels from the vagina after intercourse, through the womb into the tubes to meet an egg/eggs that have been released from the ovary. However, with blocked tubes, the sperm and egg cannot travel to meet each other and pregnancy by such normal means cannot happen. Do you know if your tubes are opened? This may be why you are not getting pregnant. Your specialist can perform a procedure called the hysterosalpingography or laparoscopy to determine if your tubes are opened or blocked.

In the continuing part of this post we shall look at the other reasons why you are not getting pregnant.

Till then, keep on doing your best and keep on Trusting.

 


 
 
 
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