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What To Do When Planning To Get Pregnant?
Hi this is nithyaraghuraman from chennai. Iam blessed with a son now he is 3years. Now iam trying for second but my husband is busy in work and there is no frequent intercourse between us. For a month we had only 3days of intercourse. Thats why iam not able to conceive. Or is there any other reason like fallopian tube block or low sperm count? I dont think those reasons bcoz i got pregnancy for my son
Wed, 30 Jul 2014
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Less frequent sexual intercourse is a well known and documented cause for difficulty in conceiving. For pregnancy to occur, fertilisation has to take place in which the female egg cell fuses with the male sperm cell. Female egg is released only during the female's fertile period and thus less frequent intercourse minimizes the chances of the sperm cell fertilizing the egg cell.
Effective intercourse needs at least 4 days of intercourse per week with the days not in a consecutive manner. In the absence of effective intercourse, you could try to understand your fertile period is usually from 16 days to 12 days before your next menses. This requires that, you know the day you are expecting your next menses.
However, there rapid tests in the market to detect when a woman is fertile. you could use this tests to increase your chances of becoming pregnant.
It is only after this possibility of less frequent sexual intercourse has been exhausted that other possibilities such as tube or ovarian abnormalities could be really considered.
Best regards
Dr Achuo
thanks for using health care magic
Less frequent sexual intercourse is a well known and documented cause for difficulty in conceiving. For pregnancy to occur, fertilisation has to take place in which the female egg cell fuses with the male sperm cell. Female egg is released only during the female's fertile period and thus less frequent intercourse minimizes the chances of the sperm cell fertilizing the egg cell.
Effective intercourse needs at least 4 days of intercourse per week with the days not in a consecutive manner. In the absence of effective intercourse, you could try to understand your fertile period is usually from 16 days to 12 days before your next menses. This requires that, you know the day you are expecting your next menses.
However, there rapid tests in the market to detect when a woman is fertile. you could use this tests to increase your chances of becoming pregnant.
It is only after this possibility of less frequent sexual intercourse has been exhausted that other possibilities such as tube or ovarian abnormalities could be really considered.
Best regards
Dr Achuo
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