Finding
Your Ways to Get Pregnant
By: Uno B. Irawan
Finding ways to get pregnant seems like an
easy task, since pregnancy is a natural phenomena created by The Almighty to
maintain the existence of the human race. The majority of couples around the
world find that getting pregnant is a reasonable consequence of getting married
which just happened after having sex.
As a matter of fact, many women can get
pregnant easily and naturally. No extra effort is needed for them to get
pregnant. Many women got pregnant beyond expectation even by using
contraceptives to control birth. Many families have more than 2 children which
in some countries become a serious social problem and source of poverty.
At the other side of the coin, there are
lots of women who strive to get pregnant, and try hard to find a way to make
their wish come true. And you may be one of them. May be you started wondering
when after several months after your marriage you are still do not feel any
early symptoms of pregnancy, while you are expecting this to happen very much.
For some women, getting pregnant is like
making a long journey on a long road with so many obstacles. The journey starts
directly after a marriage. And at some distance, still close from the starting
point, the very classical questions arise: “Are you pregnant already?” “When
will you have your baby?”... and so on.
It seems normal in the beginning, but after
a period of time such question becomes annoying and is more likely to make you
worried and distress. Unfortunately, these are good reasons for not getting
pregnant. The more the stress, it becomes less likely that you will get pregnant.
You will hear comments, the good and the
worse, or get helpful advices, or even stories of successful pregnancy of your
friends or relatives of your age. You may encounter people facing the same
problem like yours, who may be starting to give up and are trying to let it go.
Do not get influenced by such de-motivating attitude. It is best to keep your
spirit. High spirit and motivation is one of the ways to success. I am sure you
will agree to that.
You then start to get some help or gather
information on what is probably going wrong. And you will do everything to make
your dream into reality. You may be seeing an obstetrician and follow all the
advice without any objection, dieting, exercising, no smoking, no drinking,
regular sexing, got enough rest, take supplements, you name it. But still, no
signs of an expected pregnancy.
Your obstetrician has probably found something
wrong in your body, but it was treated successfully. How about possible
abnormalities in your reproduction system or organs? Is there any sign or
symptoms to indicate that you suffer from endometriosis or polycystic ovarian syndrome?
What about genetic factors, family history of not having a child and what were
the reasons to this? If your answer is that nothing is wrong, everything is
okay, and then your worries mounts and you may start feeling desperate.
While you are walking through the long
road, time passes by and you are getting older. Some medical studies show that
age is the most possible reason for infertility. This medical study reveals
that the older the age, the fewer eggs (ovum) is produced by a woman. The
decreasing number of egg production year after year makes it more difficult for
an older woman to get pregnant.
Infertility statistics show that the 15 –
29 age-group of women, 11% have been found to be infertile, while the 30 – 34
age-group have been confirmed to have an increased infertility portion of 16%.
The older group of 35 – 39 years of age infertility increased to 22.6% and the
oldest age-group, 40 – 45 years old, the infertility rate is 27.4% even before
entering their menopause.
Just to remind you, that a battle with
infertility is a team work with your spouse. You should solve all the problems
together, hand in hand, experiencing the same worry, sorrow and pain. Your
spouse should be asked to undergo some tests too to assure all matters pertaining
fertility is alright on his side.
Teamwork is always a good solution to
achieve something, isn’t it?