How do I Start?
If you are considering becoming pregnant in the future, there are some things you can do to improve your chances of achieving this.
Planning ahead
Some of the questions that you and your partner should consider include:
- How many children would you like to have?
- How old would you like to be when you have your first and last child?
- What do you and your partner need to do now so that you are as healthy as possible when you are ready to try for a baby?
- What health checks should you have before trying for a baby?
- What health or other concerns should you be discussing with your doctor?
It is helpful to start thinking it through and having the conversation with your partner sooner rather than later.
Boosting your fertility
For women, age is still the single most important factor influencing their ability to have a child. Female fertility starts to decline around age 32 and after age 35 the monthly chance of conceiving decreases more rapidly. Age can also affect a man’s fertility and the chance of having a healthy baby.
Certain lifestyle factors for both men and women also affect the ability to conceive and the health of the pregnancy. A healthy weight, diet and regular exercise can significantly boost fertility as can quitting smoking, stopping drug use and curbing heavy drinking.
Getting the timing right
When you are ready to try for a baby, it is important to know when in the month conception is most likely to happen. Ovulation happens about two weeks before the next expected period. So if a woman's average menstrual cycle is 28 days, she ovulates around day 14 - where day 1 is the first day of her period. Women's cycles vary so the expected ovulation day will change depending on the woman's individual cycle length. However, pregnancy is only possible during the five days before ovulation through to the day of ovulation. These six days are the ‘fertile window’ in a woman’s cycle, and reflect the lifespan of sperm (5 days) and the lifespan of the ovum (24 hours).
Preserving fertility
For personal and social reasons, many women delay starting a family beyond their most fertile years, which increases the risk of age-related infertility. If you are not currently in a position to have a child and are concerned about your fertility declining, you may wish to consider freezing your eggs for future use. Egg freezing offers the potential to preserve fertility but there is no guarantee of a baby so it is important that you are well-informed about all aspects of egg freezing before you decide to proceed.
PCOS
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common hormonal condition affecting up to one in five women of childbearing age. The two hormones that are affected are insulin and testosterone (male-like hormones), which may be produced in higher levels and can impact on fertility. Women with PCOS are prone to irregular menstrual cycles due to absent or infrequent ovulation.
While the majority of women with PCOS become pregnant without fertility treatment, they often take longer to fall pregnant and are statistically more likely to need treatment (ovulation induction or IVF) than women without PCOS. Despite this, studies show little difference between the numbers of children born to women with PCOS than to those without.
Conception may sometimes occur as a result of lifestyle modification or after receiving medication to assist with ovulation (ovulation induction) and advice regarding the timing of intercourse. The most successful way to treat PCOS is by making healthy lifestyle changes. The way you eat, exercise and generally stay healthy is the best way to reduce your symptoms and better your chances of conceiving and having a healthy baby.
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Dr. Anoop Gupta performs exceptionally well in providing the international level infertility treatments at his super specialty clinic in Delhi, India which is known to all as Delhi IVF & Fertility Research Centre, since the year 1994. Delhi IVF aims at providing the finest medical, emotional, ethics, moral, and most advanced technical support to the couples who are trying to find the solution for their infertility problem.
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