Is this TRUE?
Here are some facts:
Been off the b/c Pill since OCT 21, I am a healthy weight, I am 26 and he is very overweight, and 35. I have one Child, he has none.
Also I was told if you have Oral sex, before actually sex, you can't ge PG?
Is all of this true? Can any of these reason, like overweight, pill, and doing oral be the reason I am NOT PG yet?
Any suggestions would help! Thanks
Answer:
That you have only recently come off birth control pills can absolutely be a factor here, and likely is: while there are certainly instances of women becoming pregnant virtually immediately when they stop taking the pill, the fact is that it can take your body several months to re-establish or find its own rhythm again. What that means is that it could take several months before you are ovulating or ovulating regularly, etc. If you are not ovulating you're not going to get pregnant.and if you're ovulating irregularly (i.e. less frequently than you will once your body is "back to normal") you have fewer chances of getting pregnant. Make sense?
Regarding oral sex: having oral sex before intercourse will not prevent you from getting pregnant. That said, various lubricants, including saliva, are not sperm-friendly. Most studies conducted on the topic have concluded that saliva is or can be harmful to sperm. If sperm count/quality is not an issue, neither should the saliva factor. If, however, there are male factor issues with sperm, it's probably best to avoid the issue and steer clear of saliva in the vaginal area when trying to conceive.
Finally, as to the weight factor, while studies have concluded that *extremely overweight* men might have lower sperm counts than men of a healthy weight, this is not something I would be at all concerned with. The data is pretty recent and I don't know that it's been corroborated, for one thing. For another: look around you and you'll see that there are LOTS of significantly overweight men who are fathers. Sure, if you find yourself still trying to get pregnant one year from now, you'll want your husband to get a semen analysis...but you'll want that regardless of his weight. Don't sweat that issue -- it's a non-issue.
I know that when you're trying to conceive every month/cycle feels an eternity, and every bleed seems like a slap in the face. But the fact is that most healthy couples with no underlying fertility issues will conceive within one year. About 10 percent of such couples take longer. In any given cycle, the statistical chances of NOT getting pregnant are much greater than the statistical chances of conception, health ed classes and 16 year old pregnant high school students notwithstanding. A woman between 20 and 25 years of age -- at her peak, essentially -- has roughly a 20 or even 25 percent chance of conceiving in any given cycle. There are so many things that have to be precisely right for conception, and a healthy pregnancy, to occur. So I know that 4 months seems like a lot to you, but in fact it is not, and it's much too early to get concerned. If you're not pregnant after a year of trying, then it's time to call your doctor. Before that they wouldn't be advising any kind of testing or evaluation absent some real reason to suspect fertility issues.
I urge you to get a copy of Taking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler. This book is the veritable bible on how to chart your own cycle and recognize when YOU are at YOUR most fertile. Charting is very easy, and basically involves taking your basal body temperature every morning (your resting temperature...taken before you get out of bed, before you reach for a glass of water, before you open your mouth to speak...), checking your cervical fluids daily, and, if you can/want to, checking the position of your cervix. Each of these things can give you clues as to when you're about to/have recently ovulated so you can be sure you're "trying" at about the right times. You can use ovulation prediction kits or ovulation monitors if you want to go that route, to be sure, but they're costly, don't always work for every woman, can be a pain to interpret, and, frankly, I'm an advocate of knowing how to read your own body and not relying on some little machine or stick to tell you what you can easily see/feel for yourself. I also highly recommend the message boards at http://www.tcoyf.com -- they're very active and there's a lot of information there if you're TTC.
Perhaps the most annoying pieces of advice you can get when TTC is "just relax!" Even so, if you can, you should try to. It's simply much too early to worry.
Best of luck to you.
No, none of these reasons are affecting you becoming pregnant.
My advice is stop trying.
It literally worked for me and I am now 6 weeks pregnant and excited. I had been trying since May 2006 and then in December got busy doing other things and stopped thinking about ovulation dates and babies and here I am.
no this isnt true
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