I was pregnant once at age 25, but miscarried in the 12th week. I've not tried to get pregnant since then (divorced) but now I'm ready to have children again - it's been over 5 years since my first (failed) pregnancy. Is it possible that it will take longer the second time around? The first (and only time) happened right away -1 month. My mother had quite a difficult time getting pregnant after her first child - almost 5 years! Is this common or just depends on the woman? Can I expect the same? My doctor says it just depends on a number of health factors...anyone else have an experience with this?
2006-06-30 19:19:03 · 4 answers · asked by shescrafty 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
Yes, there is a direct correlation between age and fertility. Look it up anywhere on the web on conception/pregnancy/parenting sites and they should have a graph on there that shows you probability with age.
The best thing to do is to start with some pre-pregnancy care. Go to your doctor and get a checkup, and explain your desire to conceive. Ask about PreCare Conceive, a supplement for both you and your husband that the doc can prescribe. It enhances your probability of ovulating and sperm motility.
Go to the store and get ovulation trackers. The brand I used for this pregnancy was Answer. It's a pee on the stick kind. You wait 5 minutes and it'll tell you if you're experiencing your LH surge (happens right before you ovulate) to plan intercourse.
The doc also said to do it every other day instead of every day because doing it too much can actually lower sperm count. She also said after intercourse to put my feet up against the wall or over the headboard and put a pillow under my butt to use gravity to get as much inside instead of letting it spill out, and not to shower until the next morning.
We threw the birth control away in November and conceived sometime around mid-January. I took an early pregnancy test before I missed a period two weeks after the ovulation tracker caught my LH surge, and it was just barely positive. It was also Answer brand. Bought them at Walgreens.
If you have trouble after a year, you need to discuss options with your doc. A friend of mine had a slight blockage in one of her fallopian tubes. They flushed it with fluid to open it up and that fixed the problem. So it doesn't mean IVF or adoption right away, it could be something relatively simple to help the process along.
Best of luck to you!
2006-06-30 19:37:49 · answer #1 · answered by mom2babycolin 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My doctor told me that too old would be around 40, and yet women still have babies after that age. The older we get the harder it is but what I mean by "harder" is that our bodies start aging, our cervical mocus in not as good as it was when we were 18! I am 29 and 8 weeks pregnant, it took me one month to get pregnant with no complications at all. When we women are born we are born with all the eggs that we will release in our life time, so our eggs are as old as we are, and the queality of them is the way we have lived our lives, so, the healthier you are, the better your chances to concieve are. Good luck!!
2006-07-01 15:30:42 · answer #2 · answered by Lilly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every thing I have ever heard go to support the fact that yes with age it does become harder to conceive. Your egg count goes down with ever year that passes. This also go for men as well. You may also just have a low egg count. Did you know that girls are born with all of their eggs at birth unlike men who produce theirs through out life.
2006-07-01 02:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by Mary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-03 20:25:07 · answer #4 · answered by KK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋