How can you best increase your fertility to get pregnant? Step back and look at how you live, where you live, your daily routine – including your job and work place. Why? Because ALL of them can seriously impact on your chances of conceiving.
Change # 1 – Quit Smoking Tobacco
Smoking tobacco has a seriously detrimental effect on the fertility of both women and men. So if you or your partner smoke, quit – NOW!
For women who smoke it can reduce ovarian reserve and cause early menopause. Older woman trying to get pregnant are particularly vulnerable. Furthermore, ALL female smokers expose themselves to an increased risk of suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth.
Men who smoke can experience problems with their sperm. Smoking tobacco can lower their sperm count, make their sperm less mobile and increase the number of abnormal sperm. All this makes it less likely that the sperm can fertilize the women’s eggs.
Change # 2 – Establish a Healthy Routine
Keeping stress under control is vital if you are trying to get pregnant. Let’s face it, trying to conceive – especially if you are already having trouble getting pregnant – is pretty stressful in itself. A consequence of too much stress is it can cause irregular ovulation or even stop your periods all together.
Indulging in some ‘ME!’ time can help you to de-stress. Pursuits such yoga, exercise, journaling, or meditation are excellent past-times to help you unwind.
Try exercising every other day. Thirty minutes of aerobic activity four times a week can benefit both mind and body, helping you keep in tip-top shape in your attempts to get pregnant. You don’t need to be pumping iron down at the gym. For example, walking is an excellent aerobic activity. So be imaginative. Create opportunities where walking becomes a natural part of your daily routine.
Getting at least eight hours sleep a night can be very beneficial. Try to make your bedroom an oasis of calm. Don’t allow it to be a ‘busy’ place where you eat, read and watch TV.
Women should also try re-scheduling taxing events and happenings in your life to the week following your period. This helps reduce your stress level as well as decreasing your overall suffering.
Stress in men can also impact on their fertility. Stress can lower men’s testosterone production, which in turn impacts on sperm quality and quantity.
Change # 3 – Don’t Do Housework and House Repairs!
Or to be more accurate, check very carefully the products you use for these activities.
You need to be cautious of certain store-brought products you regularly buy, possibly without thinking of the consequences to your health. Such products include furniture polish, all-purpose cleaners, bug sprays, bathroom cleaners and room deodorizers. All of them contain toxic chemicals. Accumulatively, regular use of these products in the home can reduce your ability to conceive by as much as 33%. A viable, safer solution is to switch to organic, non-toxic alternatives as a means to reduce the toxins in your home.
You should also take precautions any time you decorate the house. Paint thinners, paint fumes, paint strippers, household glues and oil paints can all be toxic and negatively affect fertility. Some decorating products you may think to use are so toxic they can increase your risk of a miscarriage when pregnant.
When shopping for items such as household cleansers, home decorating or repair products, give them a quick ‘sniff’ test. If they have a strong and offensive smell, it is probably wiser to avoid them and find alternatives. The same can be said for new carpets and furniture.
Change # 4 – Get a New Job!
Radical advice, you might think. But statistically, some occupations and their work environment are more high-risk than others. Let’s consider a few examples.
Both women and men who work in the agricultural or pesticide industry are potentially ten times more likely to experience infertility problems.
Are you a woman working in a micro-electronics assembly plant? If so, if and when you get pregnant you potentially face a higher risk of spontaneous abortion four times above the average. This is because of your greater exposure to chemical solvents used in the manufacturing process.
Women who work in dry cleaning services, or material production, are exposed to dry cleaning chemicals and textile dyes which can increase the risk of infertility.
Women working in the pharmaceutical industry or in health care may be sabotaging their chances of getting pregnant without knowing it. How so? Well … if your job entails unpacking or handling antibiotics, it may result in a delayed pregnancy of at least 12 months. So if you are trying to get pregnant and your job does entail these activities, maybe you should consider asking to be moved to a different assignment.
Change # 5 – Don’t Take Recreational Drugs
Women who smoke marijuana regularly secrete small amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their vaginal fluid and also have trace amounts present in their reproductive organs. Sperm that come into contact with THC absorb the drug and become over stimulated. This causes sperm to slow down when they approach the egg and they are unable to break through the egg’s outer casing to fertilize it. Conception is impossible.
Smoking marijuana also has consequences for men’s fertility. Male sperm count is lowered, there is a decrease in the volume of seminal fluid and poor sperm motility results.
The long-term use of other recreational drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy, can also have dramatic, negative affects on female and male fertility.
The risk for women is a higher probability of experiencing ovulatory dysfunction, menstrual irregularities and reduced ovarian reserve. By contrast, men may experience a reduced libido, poor sperm count and abnormally-shaped sperm. Any or a combination of those conditions is highly likely to reduce a couple’s chances of conceiving.
So … do you do any of the five things listed above? If so, try making some changes to your life and lifestyle. It might just make all the difference in your attempts to get pregnant and having the baby you so desire.
Jade Wood is the author and creator of a complimentary Eight Lesson Course, ?Increase Infertility Tips?. The course includes practical and useful information you can apply TODAY to help you get pregnant ? information that Jade herself used to become a mother at 38 after years of failing. Download the course HERE! http://www.increasefertilitytips.com NOW!
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