What Does Being Fertile Actually Mean???!!!?

Question

Since most healthy woman ovulate every cycle then how is one woman considered ''more fertile'' than another? I know that a woman that is younger is more fertile than a woman that is older. Woman that just had a baby are also considered more fertile than woman that havnt. What does being fertile actually mean. Does a woman ovulate more than once in one given cycle? Are her eggs considered better than at any other time in her life?


I just recently had a miscarriage and we were told that I would be very fertile within the next 3 months. They said that if we wanted to try again that this is the best time. I am trying to understand how this works.

I know being fertile means that you can conceive. My question is how is a person more fertile in one point in her life than another when technically she can concieve at both times. I dont know if that makes any sense?!!

Answer 1

perhaps ur body is more receptive to conceiving.fertile means being able to have a child. for all i can make of it, u can be more fertile, just like u have certain fertility and infertility periods.get to work if u want to try again if those r the doc's orders

Answer 2

Fertility seems so simple - it is the ability to reproduce -- but reproduction is actually one of the most complex things our body can do. And yes, there are different degrees of fertility. Some women have 'hostile' mucous that kills sperm. So while they are technically fertile, the sperm can not get through the mucous barrier to impregnate the ovum. And the woman's level of fertility is affected by many things; age is one, so is stress or tension, so is nutrition (or malnutrition) alcoholism, drug use, or illness, and any or all of these factors can inhibit reproduction.
Think of fertility as being like a thermometer. There are different degrees of fertility, affected by factors both inside and outside the woman's body.
In your case, your body was prepared for a pregnancy, all the appropriate hormones were in place and all systems were go. That condition lasts for a number of weeks after the pregnancy terminated, and for that period of time you are 'super-fertile' .
Does that make sense?

Answer 3

If your doctor said you are most fertile during the next three months it is most likely due to your body being more prepared to get and maintain a pregnancy than if it was doing it cold turkey. Once you achieve pregnancy, your body goes into the growing and providing for your unborn child mode. Your hormone levels change to provide the most viable living conditions for the baby. It starts to store fats to feed and nurture growth, etc... Most women are considered very fertile for two years after they give birth because the body has already been made ready to build a human. Just like if you study for a test, you are more likely to pass it this week than if you took it 3 months from now, without studying anymore. The younger a woman is, the more viable her eggs are. According to science, just like the eggs in the fridge, the older a woman's are, the less likely they are to bake a great cake, or even bake at all. Fertile is simply the ability to get and maintain a pregnancy.

Answer 4

I believe that they are saying it is like your body is more willing to accept sperm to the egg. Some women's bodies will not, and there are times in the month, during a woman's cycle that her body is more willing to accept and make it actually happen and create a child. That's what I understand it as. And there is also the fact that women only have a certian number of eggs in their lifetime, and that's another aspect of it, though in your case I don't think that's what they are talking about.

Answer 5

It makes you can have kids as you get older it because harder and harder because you less fertile. I'm not a doctor and i don't know what determine "being fertile" so i can't tell you anymore than that if you want to know more talk to your doctor about it in detail.

Answer 6

Start with this website... You can get much more information on this subject as you drill down further

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility

Answer 7

It means being able to concieve a child.

The above answer is wrong, it is the opposite.

Answer 8

Able to get pregnant.

Answer 9

Fertile is when you can not have any more babies or any babies