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Fertility, an unpredictable thing, generally begins its decline much earlier than we think. 88% of the women who took our survey overestimated by five to ten years the age at which it begins to diminish. Nearly half of the women fertility respondents in our local district answered that general health is a good indicator of fertility, but it’s not. There are no tests that can guarantee someone who is fertile today that she’ll be fertile in a year, or two or ten. A normal gynecological check-up isn’t the same thing as a normal fertility workup even that isn’t foolproof. Passing a general physical with flying colors isn’t a reliable pregnancy prognosticator, even though a healthy lifestyle can help preserve fertility.
Looks like no one saw the need as we always assumed that producing offspring was a biological function as involuntary as breathing. So the emphasis has been on preventing pregnancy. There’s a good thing that 90% of respondents here in our local district knew the risks of some contraceptives.

The American Fertility Association wrote a brochure that said with essential reproductive knowledge, women can better shape their futures. We might not change the decisions we make, but we don’t have to ?? shouldn’t have to ?? make them blindly. Women fertility is a complicated equation with genetics, physiology, lifestyle, environment and age all assigned different values in the calculus. And again I found some useful information that I’d like to share with you about women biology rules, that female fertility inexorably diminishes with age, beginning in their late twenties, statistically speaking. Barring any extraordinary medical conditions or physiological anomalies, there are two reasons:

First, straightforward attrition. Every woman is born with all the oocytes (eggs) she is ever going to have, usually seven million or so. By the time the average female hits puberty, there are about 250,000-300,000 remaining eggs in her ovaries. During each menstrual cycle, one egg matures ?? ripe for fertilization ?? and is released, but many others are not. This is how women start with 7 million eggs, ovulate 400 times and then run out.
Second, eggs age right along with the rest of the body. Older oocytes have a greater incidence of chromosomal problems that increase the likelihood of miscarriage.

Some women in their late 30s and a few in their 40s conceive, carry and deliver healthy babies. The probability of that happening without medical intervention, however, becomes more remote with each passing year. For women under 30, it’s estimated the chance of becoming pregnant in any one cycle is 20-30%. By 40, it plummets to approximately 5%

There are some facts that women respondents missed about what contraceptive concepts. You must know that certain contraceptives not only prevent pregnancy, but also help preserve your fertility. Women may want to be cautious about IUD use. While IUD’s are highly effective and may be safe, some clinicians believe they may increase the risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease, an infection of the upper genital tract that can cause infertility (90% of survey-takers knew that).
How about birth control pills? It do several positive things, first, tubal disease is less likely to develop because oral contraceptives make the cervical mucus a “hostile” to some infections, keeping them from reaching the upper genital tract. Birth control pills also minimize the growth of the endometrium, the lining of the uterus. That reduces the incidence of endometriosis, a condition in which cells of the lining of the uterus migrate to the pelvis, implant and continue to grow, causing infertility. Somehow, 76% of respondents missed this.
Condoms and diaphragms (barrier contraception) reduce the chances of contracting a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to infertility. And again, 65% of respondents missed this.

Talking about women lifestyle such as diet, cigarettes, exercise, alcohol, weight, and caffeine, have an impact related to women reproduction health. While you never know how fertile you are until you actually start trying to have a baby, there are things you can do to preserve your base.
Smoking makes you more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases, cervical cancer and pelvic infections.
Too much weight or not enough can get in the way of regular, healthy ovulation.
Make sure that you have enough sufficient protein by eat fruits, vegetables and lots of low-fat protein, without that, estrogen metabolizes into inactive products more rapidly and menstrual cycles become longer. You can also limit caffeine intake to one cup a day; more may cause delays in conception. Avoid any herbs or herbal remedies. They’re the equivalent of untested, unregulated medicines.
Also don’t do too much exercise, they are good but too much exercise such as long-distance running puts you at risk for amenorrhea-having no periods at all.

Let’s go deeper on facts and fictions of women reproduction and fertility. Couples are considered infertile when they’re unable to conceive after a year of unprotected sex – the standard definition. On average it’ll take six month for a 30-year-old couple to achieve a pregnancy and nine months for those five years older. Indeed, at age 37 approximately half of all couples will fail to conceive within a year. By the time they reach 42, that number may be much higher.
It’s crucial to understand that infertility does not equal sterility, because a couple can’t conceive on their own doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t conceive at all. It’s the fact that 90% of infertile couples achieve families with the assistance of a vast array of increasingly refined medical therapies and treatments, including oocyte and sperm donation.

There is a technology that bypass intercourse as the route to fertilization by include superovulation (stimulating the production of multiple eggs) with coordinated intrauterine insemination; intrafollicular insemination, gamete intrafallopian transfer and in vitro fertilization (IVF). These technologies are a progression that put the sperm closer to the egg until, with IVF, the sperm and egg are combined outside the body in a culture dish in a laboratory. The success rates of this technique decline with the age of the prospective mother, A 48 old mom may look 32 on the outside with her eggs still 48.

It’s important to remember that women can build a wonderful family at any age. Ovum donation and adoption are used by thousands of women every year to bring much-wanted children into their lives.

Reference:
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American Fertility Association