Sunday, March 7, 2010

Free Infertility Hypnosis


I just discovered a source of some pretty awesome and FREE infertility hypnosis.  It's located on a blog that I found by accident recently simply because the URL and blog title is pretty similar to mine.  Your Infertility Solution was created by a woman who tried to get pregnant for 3 years and finally did IVF.

She has some posts about her experience with infertility, medical tests and IVF.  She also has certification in hypnotherapy and created an entire set of hypnosis for infertile women.  There is also a post with free IVF hypnosis.

Even if you are not currently ttc you will probably benefit from the stress hypnosis MP3.  I certainly have...

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Infertility Solutions

There are as many infertility solutions as there are infertility problems. Your individual infertility solution may be as simply as “relax” or it may be as complex as IVF with donor eggs and donor sperm. Chances are, if you’re reading this right now you are at least thinking about getting pregnant. Perhaps you don’t have an identifiable infertility problem that needs a real solution. Perhaps you have just started on the road of trying to conceive and are just trying to learn. Perhaps you have been trying for years and have a known fertility issue. Either way I will attempt with this article to give some basic infertility solutions.

If you are a woman with infertility most likely your problem lies in either ovulation or your tubes.
Most ovulation issues are caused by PCOS which is a disorder that causes many symptoms. PCOS is a basic hormonal imbalance with symptoms such as anovulation, weight gain, hirsutism, and acne. Many women with PCOS also have insulin resistance. If you have PCOS and are not trying to conceive then birth control pills and a medication to lower insulin resistance may be all that’s needed to keep symptoms at bay. If you are trying to conceive however getting your symptoms under control and inducing ovulation might be more complicated. Diet also plays a big part. A low carb diet helps with insulin resistance which then helps hormone levels. Clomid, a fertility drug is usually successful in inducing ovulation. 


Tubal infertility has a few infertility solutions. First there is surgery. Surgery for blocked tubes is usually only successful if the blockage is right at the entrance to the tube near the uterus. If the blockage is someplace else surgery is generally not going to work. In these cases women are advised to go straight to IVF for their best chance to conceive. Sometimes tubes are filled with infected fluid and need to be removed prior to IVF. This is because the fluid is toxic and can leak into the uterus and poison the embryo as it tries to implant. Since the tube is too far gone to ever function anyway, it gets removed. Tubal infertility is almost always caused by a past infection although rarely women are born with defective tubes.

If you are a man with infertility you are likely looking for solutions as well. Like women, men can have a blockage in their reproductive tract. Past infection or birth defect is the typical cause. Sometimes surgery can repair this. Otherwise sperm can easily be extracted and then used in IUI or IVF. In cases where a man makes too few sperm there are vitamins that can help increase the overall count. If the sperm production is almost nothing there is a specialized IVF that can be performed that involves isolating the few sperm and inserting them into the woman’s eggs. If no sperm are made at all then donor sperm is one of the only infertility solutions.




What Causes Infertility

What causes infertility? Many things cause infertility. Identifying the cause of your inability get pregnant is only the first step in the process of finding a cure. About 10% of all couples that try to conceive end up being officially diagnosed with infertility. Infertility is defined as not getting pregnant within 1 year of regular intercourse without birth control. Some couples will still spontaneously get pregnant in their second year of trying. Statistics show however that if you haven't conceived within 18 months on your own you are very unlikely to do so in the future.


About 40% of infertility can be attributed to a problem with the female and another 40% a problem with the male. The rest is either a combined problem with both partners or “unexplained”. Unexplained infertility is defined as infertility with no medical explanation. Of course, there is an actual reason that this couple is not getting pregnant. It’s just not a reason that can be identified with current medical tests. Also, OBGYNs fail to do all the testing that can be done and only do the most obvious tests. These couples likely would receive a more obscure diagnosis if more obscure testing was done. For this reason it’s wise to get a referral to a Reproductive Endocrinologist to get the bulk of your infertility work-up done.

Many people ask their doctors “What causes infertility”. In females infertility usually barrels down to either an ovulation problem or a tubal problem. Ovulation can be hindered for a variety of reasons. The most common one is a disorder called PCOS. These women have a hormone imbalance that causes them to not ovulate and therefore not have menstrual cycles. This disorder can happen with varying degrees of severity. Some women with PCOS simply have irregular periods and others don’t have periods at all. Other symptoms often come with the lack of ovulation such as acne, weight gain and facial hair.

Tubal blockage is usually caused by past infection which descended into the tubes and caused scar tissue. This too can cause various degrees of damage. If the tubes are only slightly damaged but still open the fertilized egg can get trapped and implant in the fallopian tube. This is a dangerous situation called ectopic pregnancy.

Other more obscure causes of female infertility are immune system dysfunction and birth defects in the pelvis. There are tests and medications for immune system disorders that prevent pregnancy. 

 Infertility in men is caused by either insufficient sperm production or a blockage that prevents the sperm from exiting the end of the penis correctly. There are nutrients that can increase sperm production to some degree. In cases where sperm production is almost or entirely absent getting a sperm donor may be the only choice. Sometimes a blockage occurs that is either caused by a past infection or a birth defect. Sometimes surgery can correct this. Figuring out what causes infertility in this case can lead to a simple fix.



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