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Interesting info about ferility I thought I would share
My fiance came home from his classes today and had some interesting information to share! One of his professors made the first test tube baby in Colorado and worked with the guy who made the first ever! His professor said that 1 in every 5 people are unfertile (over a year of trying without no luck). He said that if our feritlity was equal to any other species it would die off. The professor is working with some sort of group (can't remember) that has been working on Aids research and for the past 4 years and starting in 2010-2015 they are going to be working on fertility and figuring out how to make becoming pregnant easier and more productive and less invasive. I just thought it was kind of interesting and thought I would share.
The reason why infertility is more common than back in the day is for a few reasons.
1) We Have the abilty to diagnose fetility. More people are willing to get tested. A lot more different types of tests to do, and more men actually getting tested. It's roughly 50% the womans issue, 40% the mans issue, and 10% that it's both that have an issue causing infertility.
2) The numbers are also rising because there are so many people that are putting off having a baby for long periods of time and then when they try it's really hard for them to get pregnant, and they seek medical help. Most woman don't have their first baby until their early 30's. The older we are the harder it is to conceive. Back in the day the average age for having a first child was 21. Big difference between 21 and 31.
3) There are MANY more options of contraceptives today other than just a condom. They are all considered safe, but in my opinion none of them are natural, and play funny games with a womans body.
4) STDs like mumita mentioned. They are all over the place, and reek havock everywhere.
5) Simple everyday activities that harm our bodies in ways we can't imagine. Getting hit in the goods with a football, falling off a bike, having too much heat down there, acidentally pinching things and severing important tubes. Even a thing such as rough sex can cause temporary infertility. Getting rough can sqeeze and temperarily damage the entrance to our fallopiean tubes making it impossible for sperm to do it's job. It takes 90 days to make sperm from scratch to able to fertilize an egg. If any where in that 3 month period DH had a fever, took antibiotics, got in a hot tub, did anything that may have potentally damaged the sperm it could take longer to get pregnant.
It's simply amazing how hard it is to get pregnant when all the different hinderances are considered.
I don't really know how to feel about the term "test tube baby." I remember as a kid that was the joke when one child ridiculed another child by saying "what are you a test tube baby?" Now here I am 25 and have lots of experience with infertility, and IUI, and IVF. I would be heated, and one mad mamma if my child was called a test tube baby.
1) We Have the abilty to diagnose fetility. More people are willing to get tested. A lot more different types of tests to do, and more men actually getting tested. It's roughly 50% the womans issue, 40% the mans issue, and 10% that it's both that have an issue causing infertility.
2) The numbers are also rising because there are so many people that are putting off having a baby for long periods of time and then when they try it's really hard for them to get pregnant, and they seek medical help. Most woman don't have their first baby until their early 30's. The older we are the harder it is to conceive. Back in the day the average age for having a first child was 21. Big difference between 21 and 31.
3) There are MANY more options of contraceptives today other than just a condom. They are all considered safe, but in my opinion none of them are natural, and play funny games with a womans body.
4) STDs like mumita mentioned. They are all over the place, and reek havock everywhere.
5) Simple everyday activities that harm our bodies in ways we can't imagine. Getting hit in the goods with a football, falling off a bike, having too much heat down there, acidentally pinching things and severing important tubes. Even a thing such as rough sex can cause temporary infertility. Getting rough can sqeeze and temperarily damage the entrance to our fallopiean tubes making it impossible for sperm to do it's job. It takes 90 days to make sperm from scratch to able to fertilize an egg. If any where in that 3 month period DH had a fever, took antibiotics, got in a hot tub, did anything that may have potentally damaged the sperm it could take longer to get pregnant.
It's simply amazing how hard it is to get pregnant when all the different hinderances are considered.
I don't really know how to feel about the term "test tube baby." I remember as a kid that was the joke when one child ridiculed another child by saying "what are you a test tube baby?" Now here I am 25 and have lots of experience with infertility, and IUI, and IVF. I would be heated, and one mad mamma if my child was called a test tube baby.
my mom believes that a lot of the probelms we young women (in our mid-late 20's) are having is because we were put on birthcontrol so early (lots of my friends and myslef started around 15-16 for painful eriods or acne)
Well I think that we are causing infertility to ourselves in the developed countries. for instance, our diets have changed drastically since 30 years ago we are exposed to a lot more processed and artificial foods than people used to eat, including baby formula. We have introduced contraceptives which block conception artificially and cause havok on our hormones then on top of that, women are waiting to a later age to conceive when the easiest and healthier time to have babies is in your early 20's. There's a lot more STD's being spread that can cause infertility...the list goes on.
But in other words, a polluted body = an unsafe environment for conception.
I haven't heard of any infertility worries in undeveloped countries.
But in other words, a polluted body = an unsafe environment for conception.
I haven't heard of any infertility worries in undeveloped countries.
I don't know if anyone saw the movie "Children of Men" but that is the basic idea of the movie, that women can't have babies anymore and they don't know why (it's set in the future, but there happens to be a pregnant women from some other country that they are trying to keep away from researchers). After watching that movie it just really makes you think that something like that could happen.
My dad's theroy is radiation. lol. Which in that case I'll never have kids in a millions years. lol I think we are exposed to a lot more now days and that may corralate to problems with inferitlity and not to mention other things but because feritlity is a big issues we are noticing it most.
Something strange I've been thinking is that infertility seems to be becoming more and more common. For instance back in the day you didn't really hear of people having a hard time becoming pregnant and now it seems that it is much more common. Weird right.
The problem I have with the fertility is its excuse my french too ****ing exspensive and insurance not covering it!!!!!!!!!
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