What is female infertility?
A woman is considered medically infertile if she has had sex without contraception for 12 months and was unable to get pregnant. Fertility is described in a medical sense as:
* First Degree Infertility - women who have never had children
* Second Degree Infertility - Women who have had children, but are unable to conceive a second time
It is extremely important to distinguish between infertility and sterility. Infertility is the term used to describe women who are completely unable to conceive their own children. Female infertility describes the difficulty faced by women trying to conceive. Being infertile does not mean you'll never be able to have children. Explore options for treating female infertility improve your chances of conception and carrying a term and a healthy baby.
What causes female infertility?
There are several known causes of female infertility, some of them are:
Ovulation disorders * - no ovulation occurs due to hormonal imbalances. The failure to ovulate can lead to irregular or absent periods. Hormonal imbalance that contributes to ovulation has been attributed to factors such as extremely high or low body weight, excessive exercise, prolonged emotional stress and thyroid problems. Other causes of ovulatory disorders include endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome.
* Damage to the reproductive organs - damage to delicate fallopian tubes due to pelvic inflammation (STD, or appendicitis) is to blame for about 25 percent of cases of female infertility. Other physical damage to reproductive organs contributing to female infertility include damage and abnormalities of the cervix and uterus, such as fibroids.
* Hormonal imbalances - as already seen in women hormonal imbalances can lead to subsequent failure and infertility ovulation. The imbalance of progesterone can prevent the woman's body being able to maintain pregnancy
* False chronic layer - Some infertile women can conceive but are regularly losing design. Miscarriage can be caused by thyroid problems, defective sperm or eggs, hormonal imbalance, malnutrition, drugs, trauma and immune system deficiencies.
* Nutritional deficiencies - there are certain nutrients that have been found to influence health including reproductive system.
* The psychological and emotional factors - emotions affect your body and your health. When it comes to understanding and treating female infertility, mind-body connection becomes a major concern. So far, it has been estimated that about 5% of female infertility is caused by psychological and emotional factors.
Science and medicine are beginning to understand the ways in which certain nutrients and can affect behavior and in many cases enhance and restore fertility. Some doctors are willing to admit that there are many areas of female infertility that are not well understood and is unfortunately not the reluctance of the medical community to recommend vitamins and diet tips about medications surgery - even where vitamins are tested to be more effective as a treatment of female infertility.
Female infertility - the big mistake I made
I like to share my experience with you, to give you a personal idea of what a "God Send to learn the truth about infertility was for me.
I was diagnosed with endometriosis about 5 years ago when only 23. At the time I was, I was more worried about the pain and discomfort monthly, the implications of the long-term fertility.
A year later, however, I met and fell in love with Nick asshole. Although, initially, start a family could not be further from our minds. However, endometriosis played hell with our sex life, and I was constantly feeling guilty for refusing sex with the man she loved.
It could not have come more as a surprise to me, when two years later, Nick asked me. I really had not imagined that the marriage was in the cards so early in our relationship, especially in the bedroom 'all topics hung permanently on my guilty head. Wedding Planner instantly taken over our lives, somewhere between all the planning; started discussing our own family.
We were married a year later in a fairytale ceremony, everything seemed so perfect, we started our new life together, was planning to travel and raise a family.
Shortly after the honeymoon, we decided to start trying for our first child. Sex was always incredibly painful for me, and although I did my best to put a brave face meetings soon became too forced, and we decided to consult a fertility doctor.
I will never forget the feeling of total devastation and shame I felt when the doctor came back with the diagnosis of infertility. Not only was my endometriosis causes obstructions to ovulation, but endometrial tissue to spread my ovaries had caused severe scarring. All these factors combined made me very infertile. The doctors said it was unlikely to already have my own children. I felt like I had betrayed Nick and almost as if I had deceived him to marry me, and a normal family life with another person.
Nick was as favorable as ever, and held my hand through the succession of corrective surgeries I had in the coming months. Nothing really seemed to help, certainly was not closer to becoming pregnant, and to complicate everything I started having panic attacks before sex because I had psychological ties so strong, gender, pain and infertility.
Looking back, I fell so low in my own inner misery that I did not know that all the stress was taking a toll on my patient and loving husband and our marriage. Nick and I spent more time doing different things, our sex life was non-existent, and all hopes and plans for the future of the table or on hold. This time in our lives was really and truly hell.
Nick is really, really loves me because he never left me for another person more fertile, and in fact, it was Nick who slowly began to get out of my depressive depression. Although all but gave up, never loses sight of our dream of having a family. Nick encouraged me to see our hopes and dreams, together we were able to slowly rekindle the burning desire to have a family.
We began to explore other options to have a family, surrogacy or adoption, and although these options felt like second-class alternative, at least now we have something to look forward. Looking back, I am very pleased that these options were open as it was through reading about the alternatives that we have learned that infertility and sterility are completely different things. We had assumed, and we were led to believe that infertility and sterility are one in the same. It was my first major break, but now I felt I really hope so.
Because I had assumed that my infertility diagnosis meant he would never be able to have children, and all that he has given instead of having a family.
After a few weeks to pursue an alternative treatment, I found a new smile. Slowly Nick and I were able to strengthen our relationship and rebuild our sex life. Our plans have changed and improved lifestyle, we both started to feel happier and healthier than we had for a while! As we move into the plan found more and more open to some of the most alternative treatments, and started trying the therapy of acupuncture and acupressure.
Then one cold morning in July, the incredible happened:
I waited nervously for my last stage of fertility (the time I ovulated) take a pregnancy test and see if all the effort was worth it. Around 06:00, I went into the bathroom to take the test ...
Poor Nick awoke from his slumber by my cries; I had a positive test.
Nick was happy and had what I-always-knew-it-was going to happen, the smile on his face. But I was still not convinced, I took another two tests just to be sure, and they also returned positive results. We were pregnant !!
The coming months are going to take a slightly surreal golden glow in my mind; it seemed that, with the help of some help and additional knowledge, we achieved the impossible. I would really be a mother, a father Nick could finally realize our dreams and have a family.
Since the birth of my first, Chloe, I devoted my time (about an enchanted mom the first time) to ensure the existence of a large number of information accessible and accurate available for couples with fertility problems. I want to ensure that others do not make the same mistake I did - to think that the diagnosis of infertility doctor meant that I could not get pregnant, and we could not have a family.
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