Infertility: Do you make these mistakes?

Mistakes are forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. And there are some mistakes indeed that you make while fighting infertility. Let’s take a closer look at them.

Mistakes that affect your ovulation

• Going to the bathroom immediately after intercourse: Studies show that it takes anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes for the sperm to reach the fallopian tubes. Women, who are suffering from infertility, better to lie on your back for at least 20 to 25 minutes after the sex to improve chances of getting pregnant.
• Flying and bumpy car drives prior to ovulation: The above activities can disrupt your internal environment and cause undue pressure on your reproductive organs. You have to assist your body in creating a good environment so that you can conceive.
• Stressful activities: Modern lifestyle entails a series of stressful activities that can completely destroy your ability to conceive. When your body is gearing up for implantation of fertilised egg in the uterus lining, you need to maintain a restful mind to aid and help your body getting pregnant.
• Hot baths: Perhaps you may relax and enjoy a hot bath after a busy day time. And in the process you are ignoring a fact that it will rise your internal body temperature. Rising the internal temperature is not ideal when you’re trying to get pregnant.
• Conception after day 16: Cycles with an ovulation time after a day 16 are prone to miscarriages. After day 16 your uterus lining weaken and incapable of nourishing the fetus. Again the reason for delay of ovulation is hectic physical and stressful activities.

Stressful lifestyle that affects your hormonal cycle

You may be hearing about this repeatedly. Perhaps you might be aware of its consequences also. Even then at the cost of repetition we tried to put it in our words considering its importance. One of the crucial factors responsible for infertility is hormonal imbalance and it is caused by experiencing chronic stress often.

Mistakes that affect male infertility

• Wearing tight clothing
• Taking hot showers and saunas
• Not wearing boxers
• Putting laptop on the lap

Avoiding the above activities can eliminate sperm count and motility problems in man.

Using Unnecessary Medications and Over the Counter Drugs

When you’re trying to get pregnant should not use unnecessary medications and over the counter drugs. Most of the medications will have a lot of side effects with direct bearing on each of your organs in the body.

Eating predatory fish that may cause miscarriage

You may have a lot of questions about which foods to eat and which foods to avoid. This becomes even more difficult when you’re not getting pregnant normally. Whether to eat fish or not is one of the frequently asked questions. Each cell of your body requires essential fatty acids for its growth and development. They are also crucial for your ovulation. Seafood is a good source of fatty acids and therefore they must be a part of your fertility diet. However there is only one exception. Avoid predatory fish like shark, swordfish, tuna etc. These fish contain high levels of Mercury which could damage the nervous system of yours baby and eventually led to miscarriages.

Addiction to dairy products that effects your hormonal cycle

Dairy products contain high levels of hormones, antibiotics and pesticides. Consumption of dairy products alters your hormonal levels and also damages a growing fetus.

Eating refined sugar and sugar substitutes

All the food items prepared from refined sugar will cause acidic environment within your body. Excessive amounts of acids are bad as they reduce oxygen, calcium and other minerals from your body. It is also the perfect ground for the growth of bacteria and virus. This atmosphere is also responsible for infertility related diseases.

Infertility: Primary causes and how to deal with it

Infertility has various causes, and figuring out which applies to you may be very simple or intricate. Previously, only women were blamed for infertility, the reality is that male and female factors both share equally in infertility. Consider the following statistics:

• 1/3 of infertility problems are caused by female factors and same applies to males
• Approximately 20 percent of infertility is inexplicable
• Around 10-15 % of infertility is caused by a blend of male and female factors

Among women, prevalent causes of infertility are:

• Ovulatory disorders resulting in no ovulation or irregularovulation
• Tubal disorders resulting in blocked or infected tubes
• Uterine issues-fibroids, polyps or adhesions

Infertility in men is caused due to:

• Low sperm count
• Decreased sperm motility
• Abnormally shaped sperm
• No sperm at all in the ejaculate

Each of these categories of infertility can be caused by a number of things; for example, a decreased sperm count can be caused by a disease such as diabetes, by a birth defect, or by trauma. A woman can have blocked tubes from endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, or from a congenital malformation. Anovulation can be caused by polycystic ovarian syndrome, premature ovarian failure, or by over-exercising. While it may be fairly obvious what the problem is, finding the reason for the problem may be more difficult.

How to diagnose infertility?

You may think this is a no-brainer: If you’re not getting pregnant, it seems like you’ve already diagnosed yourself with infertility! However, diagnosing a lack of pregnancy is the easy part; figuring out why you’re not getting pregnant is the hard part.

Your infertility specialist can run a few simple blood tests to help determine whether or not you’re ovulating. Ovulation is, after all, the first step in getting pregnant, and usually blood tests or observation of your own cervical mucus and temperature can help you figure out when you’re ovulating so you can time sex accordingly.

If you’re still not pregnant after six months of “hitting the mark,” it’s time for more testing; your infertility specialist may suggest a test to see if your tubes are open and testing on your partner to see if “his boys can swim.”

This process of looking for the problem and then seeing if it’s fixed can take a few months. Only 20 percent of infertile couples never have a definite answer to why they can’t get pregnant, so the odds are your favour.