Contents:
- Medical Video: Pregnancy Myths
- Myths and facts about fertility
- 1. "Taking birth control pills makes women less fertile"
- 2. "Getting pregnant is easy"
- 3. "Quality of sperm is much better after 10 days of no ejaculation"
- 4. "For under 40 years, there are still opportunities to have children"
- 5. "Couples who want to have children should try for a year before taking fertility treatment"
- 6. "Women must wait until their body temperature rises before sexual intercourse, to increase the chances of pregnancy"
- 7. "If a man has a child, he can have more children"
- 8. "Expensive fertilizers can help fertility"
- 9. "Women who do fertility treatment can have twins"
- 10. "Eating non-organic bananas can make men infertile"
Medical Video: Pregnancy Myths
Tips on how to get pregnant fast are often heard, especially if you are a newly married couple. Of course sometimes the advice comes from generation to generation that is conveyed by word of mouth. There are even those that are not scientifically proven. Getting a child is related to a person's fertility or fertility. The concept that arises in society often considers fertility problems to be only associated with women. In fact, not only women can have fertility problems. Men can also have fertility problems. Then, what is right and wrong about fertility problems?
Myths and facts about fertility
The following are presumptions that we may often hear and unwittingly believe. You can see the following explanations:
1. "Taking birth control pills makes women less fertile"
Many women think that when they stop taking birth control pills, it will take 6 to 12 months for the menstrual cycle to return to normal. When the menstrual cycle has not returned, they think that pregnancy is also less likely to occur. Birth control pills can indeed prevent pregnancy. However, when women stop taking birth control pills, their menstrual cycle will slowly return to normal.
In a study involving 200 women who took birth control pills for a year, 40% had menstruation and became pregnant after one month they stopped taking birth control pills. According to Dr. Jani Jensen, a gynecologist at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, quoted by the Live Science website, women who have not experienced the menstrual cycle within 3 months after stopping taking birth control pills will be evaluated in advance whether there are problems that affect egg production.
2. "Getting pregnant is easy"
In fact, fertilization is not that easy. In fertile couples, the chance of conception is only about 25% per cycle, and decreases with age. The process of sperm that must pass through the fallopian tube to arrive at the egg is indeed not easy. Not only that which affects the process of conception, other factors that affect the time during sexual intercourse, or certain treatments that you are living.
3. "Quality of sperm is much better after 10 days of no ejaculation"
The best quality of sperm is that produced by ejaculation every two to three days. If you do not ejaculate for a long time, it will risk producing some damaged dead sperm.
4. "For under 40 years, there are still opportunities to have children"
Age, actually is the main factor in the success rate of infertility treatment, as well as the ability of the reproductive organs to occur fertilization naturally. The average healthy woman who is 40 years old only has 5% chance to get pregnant. So, if you are over 36 and have been trying for 6 months, you need medical advice from a doctor. However, the same conclusions cannot be drawn on everyone, because the condition of the body of each person is different.
5. "Couples who want to have children should try for a year before taking fertility treatment"
Based on the opinions of doctors in America, infertility is not defined as having no conception for a year even though having intercourse continuously. A husband and wife do not need to wait a year to get an evaluation of a pregnancy that has not yet happened.
6. "Women must wait until their body temperature rises before sexual intercourse, to increase the chances of pregnancy"
Monitoring body temperature is indeed a way for women to know fertility. However, to have sexual relations does not have to wait until the body rises. The best chance for women to get pregnant is when you and your partner have sexual intercourse before ovulation; the process when a mature egg is released.
7. "If a man has a child, he can have more children"
Still according to Jensen, there were some women who were not pregnant, and thought they were infertile, because the husband had had children before. This is not an absolute factor. It does not guarantee that if a man has had a child before, he will certainly have more children. There are several factors that can affect male infertility such as increased body weight, and thyroid disease (thyroid gland).
8. "Expensive fertilizers can help fertility"
Maybe you can find a variety of vitamins that claim to be able to fertilize and help with the reproductive process, not to mention the pocket that must be deeply studied to buy the vitamin. Still according to Jensen, evidence that supports expensive vitamins can provide fertility is still weak. Consult a doctor is the main advice after you try various ways. The doctor will know what is the root of your problem, so that it can be treated.
9. "Women who do fertility treatment can have twins"
In general, women who manage fertility treatment have one child. However, there is a possibility of twins, even triplets. This is due to the transfer of several embryos to the uterus to increase treatment success.
10. "Eating non-organic bananas can make men infertile"
This claim is based on reports that the chemical substances used in banana growth have a negative effect on sperm, quoted by the Parents website. However, there is no clinical evidence that all men who eat non-organic bananas can have the same effect.
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