What’s the truth and what are just old wives tales!
It
generally happens "When you're trying to
conceive, you, the female, are the one
Not Able to get pregnant is often
a misunderstood condition, which is why there's so much confusion surrounding it. Here are
some common myths & truth observeds by Dr. Shobha Gupta, Infertility
Specialist at Mother’s Lap IVF Centre – New Delhi.
It's
easy to get pregnant, In the best of
circumstances, a pregnancy occurs only 20 percent of the time people have
unprotected sex. We won't even start (an infertility) workup until patients
have gone one year without conception, or the woman is over 35."
Coital
positions affect conception "Position
doesn't make any difference at all," "You don't have to
lie down for 30 minutes after sex; you don't have to hang from the ceiling by
your feet. Many people also believe that diet or coital frequency can
affect the gender of the baby. Those are myths."
A woman's
ovaries are the same biological age she is. "Decreased
ovarian reserve" is a phenomenon in which the ovaries and eggs act older
than they are. While there are tests to detect this, there is no cure.
Freezing eggs
is a good hedge against infertility later in life. "There is a lot of noise in the
media about utilizing egg freezing as a way of keeping your fertility. The
thing about egg freezing that doesn't come out is that it works best in young
eggs. I'm seeing a lot of women in their late 30s and early 40s saying, 'I want
to freeze my eggs,' when it often is too late. If you're contemplating egg
freezing, you really should do it before age 35."
Birth control
pills cause infertility. "The
birth control pill does not cause infertility — short-term or
long-term.
