It turns out getting pregnant has its challenges
As we grow, we start to question how babies are born. We hear about the stork that delivers babies, and then we hear silly things such as getting pregnant from kissing or holding hands. The reality is that it can be complicated to conceive. We might know how to avoid getting pregnant and what resources exist to prevent conception, but the shocking truth is that some people are not capable of conceiving that easily.
The CDC states that among heterosexual women aged 15 to 49 with no prior births, about 1 in 5 can’t get pregnant after trying for a year. Plenty of misconceptions come from movies and TV shows that give women the false reality of conceiving after the first try. The truth is that everybody is different, and a woman’s body must be conditioned to conceive. Yet, even if the female body is perfectly prepared, the male also plays an enormous role in whether the sperm will join the egg and fertilize. As previously mentioned, many factors affect fertilization, such as age, hormonal and genetic disorders, chemotherapy, diabetes, infections, heavy consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Age is a prevalent cause of infertility that affect both men and woman. The CDC mentions that if the male is over 40 years old, they have more trouble trying to get their partner to conceive. The U.S. Census Bureau proves that as females age and develop changes in their menstrual cycle and ovaries, the chances of fertilization decrease.
The CDC warns that the possibilities of conception rapidly start to decline after the female turns 30 years old. If a female after 35 years of age has no issues and regular menstrual cycles but can’t seem to conceive after trying for six months, they should seek medical help. Luckily, medicine has evolved, and to this day, doctors can treat infertility with surgery, medicine, insemination, or assistive reproductive technology.
The most common type of assistive reproductive technology is In vitro fertilization or IVF, fertilization outside the female body. After the egg and the sperm are united in a laboratory, it creates embryos that are later transferred into the uterus. Isn’t that crazy? It is good to know that although getting pregnant is challenging, many medical alternatives help females conceive safely.
Look at the bright side; this is all proof of how wonderfully unknown and magical life can be. There are countless possibilities where conception can go wrong, but we were created at a perfect time where insemination was timed with ovulation. Then, the egg was fertilized with a healthy genetic condition, and we grew there safely.
There is no doubt that trying to conceive can bring a lot of stress and anxiety to people, so we need to understand that it is not easy. Let us be more kind to our bodies and learn the complicated process it has to go through to reproduce. It is nothing like how the movies, but rather it is more like a miracle
