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Infertility is primarily
caused by female problems.
Studies show that about 40% of
infertility cases are caused by female factors, 40% by male factors and 20% by a
combination of both.
Ovulation occurs on Day 14 of a woman's cycle.
That would make birth control, and
conception, very easy if it were true. Couples could either avoid
intercourse on Day 14 to avoid pregnancy, or have intercourse to become
pregnant.
A normal menstrual cycle
lasts 28 days.
The normal range for a woman's menstrual
cycle is actually anywhere between 24 to 36 days in length.
Worrying about a late period
only makes it later.
Stress cannot delay your menstrual
period, however it can delay ovulation. The number of days in your luteal
phase (time between ovulation and your period) typically will remain
constant with each cycle.
A woman can get pregnant only
on one day during each cycle.
Although a woman's egg is only viable for 12 to 24 hours,
she
can actually get pregnant from an act of intercourse that occurs anytime from
about five days prior to ovulation to as much as two days after, for a
total of about seven possible days to get pregnant.
A woman should wait a
minimum of three months after she stops taking birth
control pills before trying to conceive.
Birth control pills work by
preventing a woman from ovulating through increased hormone levels. The
hormone levels start to return to normal almost immediately once you quit taking
them and you should begin to
ovulate with the very next cycle.
Stress can cause infertility.
Stress does not prevent conception,
however, it can delay ovulation
by suppressing the hormones needed for it to occur.
It's all in your mind
- just relax or take a vacation. Then
you'll get pregnant!
Infertility is a disease or condition of the reproductive system.
Although infertility can result in stress, stress cannot cause infertility.
Luckily, improved
medical techniques have made it easier to diagnose and treat infertility problems.
The egg is fertilized
within the uterus.
Implantation usually occurs in the
uterus, but conception actually occurs in the outer third of the fallopian
tubes, not in the uterus.
Women quit producing eggs at menopause.
Women are born with over 400,000 eggs, but have nowhere near that many
menstrual cycles in their lives. Once a woman reaches menopause, her body stops
responding to the hormones that cause the eggs to mature in the ovary and be released.
Wearing boxer shorts and
taking cold showers makes men more fertile.
While increased scrotal heat from athletic
supporters, tight-fitting underwear and hot tubs can reduce a man's sperm count,
there are no proven benefits of keeping the area cold.
If a woman takes fertility
drugs to help conceive, she'll end up having twins or triplets.
Although fertility drugs can increase the chances of having a multiple pregnancy,
the majority of women taking them have single births.
Ovulation occurs on the day of the drop or the day of the rise in
your BBT chart.
Actually, the exact day of ovulation cannot be determined by the basal body
temperature. By the time the temperature has risen, ovulation has already
occurred and since the egg can live for 12-24 hours, the temperature alone is
not a good indicator of when you actually ovulated.
Vaginal secretions indicate
that you have an infection.
Vaginal secretions are natural and
healthy and once a woman understands what
it is and when to expect it, she will realize that it is a sign of fertility
and not an infectious discharge in need of treatment or douching.
If a man is sexually
virile, he will have a normal sperm count.
In reality, men with normal
sex drives may have no sperm at all and vice versa as there is no correlation
between virility and fertility.
Sperm can only live
for several hours.
In fertile
quality cervical fluid, sperm can actually survive for up to five days in a woman's reproductive
system.
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