If you are anything like me, you are having trouble trying to conceive. You may have already had some tests done, or you may just be wondering why nature is not taking the normal course.
Trying to conceive with no results is incredibly frustrating! Having trouble getting pregnant is not something you ever think about when you imagine yourself with children.
Most of the time, you spend years trying NOT to get pregnant, so you think that when you are ready to get pregnant, it should happen right away. But for a segment of the population, that does not happen.
The fact is, studies show that because couples are waiting until later in life to have a family, infertility problems are more common. Instead of having families in your 20s, people are now waiting until their 30s and 40s to conceive children.
Whether it is because people are getting married later in life or putting off having a family to have a career, getting pregnant is not always as easy as it might seem.
But I really don’t have to tell you this, right? You know the heartache and worry that comes with not being able to conceive. You know how it feels to try month after month with no results.
You began the process of getting pregnant with such excitement, and happily shared the news that you are trying to conceive with family and friends. Now, months or even years later, you find that you dread the inevitable questions about whether or not you are pregnant. You look at other pregnant women you see with envy and end up spending your time wondering if it will ever happen to you and worrying about that fact that it might not happen to you
My husband and I got married when we were in our late 20s. We decided that we wanted to have a child right away, and spent the first six months of our marriage trying to conceive. We had plenty of sex and a lot of optimism.
We thought it would happen, and didn’t give much thought to the fact that it might not happen. This was even though I had worked in a private adoption agency and dealt with infertile couples on a regular basis. No one ever thinks they might be infertile. Ever.
If you want children at some point in your life, then you just assume that you will have them when you are ready and want them. I wanted a girl first, with my blonde hair and my husband’s green eyes. I pictured this little girl in my mind, and she became very real.
We joked about names, and planned a nursery filled with everything pink! But it did not happen, and we started to wonder why. We were still fairly young, both of us were healthy, and our lives were not overly filled with stress.
When we hadn’t gotten pregnant after six months, we finally paid a visit to my OB/GYN. He checked me out, and pronounced me physically able to have children. There was nothing medically wrong with me. He said that since we were just about into our 30s that our chances for conception were still very good.
He suggested that we relax, enjoy ourselves and let nature take its course for at least another six months. If we still had not conceived by that time, then my husband and I could start undergoing some of the testing for fertility problems.
That advice, while well-meant, was not easily taken. How do you relax when all you really want to do is get pregnant and have a baby?
Patience had never been my strong suit, and I wasn’t about to wait around for things to happen if there was something I could do to move the process along.
I started by doing as much research as possible to find out all that I could about getting pregnant. I read books, I surfed the Internet and I read everything I could get my hands on about pregnancy, infertility and the many ways to help make conception easier.
The wide array of information out there was overwhelming! There is so much information on how to get pregnant. A lot of it made sense, some of it sounded more like old wives tales, and other things just seemed silly.
It seemed like it took forever to sort through it all. But I learned a lot. I learned that getting pregnant is not really that easy. Most women only have a few days a month when they are actually fertile. So I found out the best ways to make those few fertile days a month count.
What also I learned is that there is no one thing that is right for everyone who is trying to conceive. What works for some couples may not work for others. Yes, every woman has basically the same body, but each woman’s body functions a bit differently, and getting to know how my own body functioned was one of the keys to my success.
So, knowing about all of the different approaches and having access to all that information in one place is a definite advantage. Knowledge is power, and knowing as many different ways as possible on how to increase your chances of getting pregnant can increase your chances of success!
If you are currently trying to conceive without any success, then you have probably heard some of these things. You may have even tried some of them. But what you don’t have is an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to Getting Pregnant. That is what I am offering to you.
It wasn’t anything crazy or outlandish, either. We simply tried one technique, and it worked for us. Whereas before we couldn’t seem to get pregnant, now it only took us two months to get pregnant with our baby girl. After that, my pregnancy was a breeze, and exactly eight months, three weeks and one day later…
The Getting Pregnant Bible - How To Get Pregnant Guide
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