All,
So a friend of mine is planning a family and haven’t gotten pregnant yet. Her gynac said they it may happen right away or may take even a year to conceive. Well, i don’t really understand this.
If a fertile man and woman are having frequent sex, what really leads to not getting pregnant?
In: Biology
There’s a lot of good answers here but something I haven’t seen mentioned is that it didn’t used to be so hard. The current level of infertility is new to the last 30-40 years. There are a number of factors that play into this:
1. Male sperm quality has decreased about 60% over the last 50 years. There isn’t a clear scientific consensus as to why, but it’s a major factor in trying to conceive.
2. A woman’s peak fertility is between 16-24. Up until recently this was also when most women tried to start a family. The average age of first children now is over 30, where egg viability is half that of the peak window and it drops by another 50% after 35.
Just these two factors alone significantly decrease your chances of getting pregnant on the first try. Add in all the other things people have said and getting pregnant is hard in today’s society.
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