| Abortions and conception
If you're having trouble becoming pregnant and have had one or more abortions in the past, you might be worrying if the two are related. Infertility can be related to abortion in two ways.
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| Amenorrhea
Amenorrhea refers to a condition in which women don't have a period for a long time. This could be good news for most women except those trying to conceive.
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| At what time of the month is a woman most fertile?
If you want to know when you're most fertile, you need to know when you ovulate. Start counting beginning on the day you start your period. The day you start is day one.
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| Basal body temperature
Ovulation, also known as the third phase of menstruation, usually happens in the middle of your menstrual cycle. So, if you have a 28-day cycle, you should ovulate on day 14.
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| Breastfeeding
If you've recently had a baby and are breast-feeding, you're probably aware that your periods stop during this time. The clinical term for this absence of periods is amenorrhea.
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| Causes of infertility in women
If you're a woman trying to become pregnant, you might wonder what things can hurt or help your efforts at parenthood. Women's fertility begins falling off after the age of 25, and the rate for miscarriage and birth defects increases after 35.
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| Conception during the menstrual cycle
Your body is designed to nurture an egg for fertilization and development into a fetus. If the egg isn't fertilized, your body cleanses itself and tries again in about a month.
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| Corrective surgery for women
With modern assisted reproduction technology, your chances of overcoming infertility problems are greater than they've ever been. Often, physical problems with your body can keep you from becoming pregnant.
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| Cough syrup and fertility
You might be wondering how cough syrup can relate to fertility in any form or fashion. Actually, evidence suggests it can help. Guaifenesin (GWY-fen-uh-sin), the principal active ingredient in some leading cough syrups, is a mucolytic agent.
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| Does douching affect successful conception?
Generally speaking, douching is not a good idea if you're trying to become pregnant. Douching alters the pH balance of the vagina. Sperm needs the alkaline-acid levels to be more or less balanced in order to live.
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| Evaluation process for women
If you're not having success becoming pregnant, you might seek the advice of a doctor, especially one who specializes in infertility. The doctor has many tests and procedures to evaluate any possible problems with your fertility.
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| Female infertility services - medical and surgical
The diagnosis of infertility is made when conception doesn't occur after one year of trying to achieve pregnancy with unprotected intercourse. In general, 10 to 15 percent of infertility is due to failure of ovulation.
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| How can a woman tell when she ovulates?
There are many ways to determine when you ovulate. The simplest and most inexpensive way is to take your basal temperature every morning and record it on a chart.
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| Menstrual/ovulatory cycle
In your menstrual cycle, the hypothalamus, the anterior pituitary, and the ovaries interact to result in ovulation. In general, this process repeats itself approximately every 28 to 30 days in four phases.
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| Mid-cycle spotting
Ovulation refers to the time of your cycle that the egg is released from the ovum. This is the only time of the month you can become pregnant. Knowing when you ovulate can help you prevent or achieve pregnancy.
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| Milk and fertility
Many studies show a relationship between milk intake and conception. A team of researchers in the United States and Finland report that in areas where milk consumption is highest, women tend to experience the sharpest age-related falloff in infertility.
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| Miscarriages
If you've lost a baby before your pregnancy came to term, you've had a miscarriage. One out of six pregnancies ends in miscarriage, with 75 percent of these ending in the first 12 weeks.
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| Mittelschmerz pain
Knowing when you ovulate can help you become pregnant if you have intercourse at that time. There are several methods of determining when you ovulate.
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| Monitoring cervical fluid
Monitoring cervical fluid is an inexpensive way to increase your chances of uniting a sperm with an egg at precisely the right time. Your cervical fluid is discharged through the vagina and changes within 24 hours of ovulation when estrogen levels are raised.
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| Other ways to detect ovulation
In addition to charting your basal temperature to detect ovulation, there are a few other methods you might try. If you feel a slight twinge in the lower abdomen, you might be ovulating.
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| Ovulation
Ovulation, also known as the third phase of menstruation, usually happens in the middle of your menstrual cycle. So, if you have a 28-day cycle, you should ovulate on day 14.
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| Ovulation predictor kits
If you're trying to become pregnant, you can use an ovulation predictor kit to determine when you're ovulating. This indicates the time in your cycle when you're most likely to conceive.
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| Positioning of the cervix
When your body ovulates, you're at your most fertile point. If you're trying to become pregnant, knowing when ovulation occurs can be crucial to conception.
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| The female orgasm and conception
If you're one of those people who try to conceive but can't, you probably get a lot of advice from friends, family, and doctors. There are many high-tech methods of fertilizing eggs, but you might not have that kind of money.
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| Tubal disease
Fallopian tube disease causes about 20 percent of treated infertility cases. If you're having trouble conceiving, talk to your doctor about the possibility of tubal disease, especially if you've had an STD (S-T-D) such as gonorrhea, syphilis, or chlamydia.
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| Women over forty
These days more and more women are waiting until their 30s or 40s to try to conceive. The problem with this trend is fertility decreases as age increases.
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