Infertility is something that millions of women face in fact according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
>> 6.1 million women in the
United States had difficulty
getting pregnant or staying
pregnant. Infertility does not
just affect women who are
trying to get pregnant I the
way for the first time,
secondary infertility is when a
woman who was already had a
baby is now struggling to
conceive again as of 2012 more
than a 165,000 women turned to
in vitro fertilization. That’s
how urged number
comedian Amy Schumer has been
very real about her attempts to
get pregnant again
in fact she revealed just last
Saturday posting this picture
to instagram that she’s
undergoing IVF and plans to
freeze embryos. Schumer and her
husband Chris Fischer currently
have an 8 month-old son Jean
and they are anxious
sooner than later to give him a
sibling but have been
struggling. Doctor Melinda
henne with the Florida
Institute for Reproductive
medicine here in Jacksonville
joins me now good morning.
Thank you for being here
appreciate it it’s
a pleasure. So up how unusual
is it that a couple would
struggle to get pregnant a
second time.
>> It’s actually very if you
think about it.
The biggest reason that people
have difficulty getting
pregnant is 8. If a woman
gets pregnant. And she’s
pregnant for a year before
delivery and then waits yet
another year before trying to
get pregnant again she’s going
to have a writ action in her
fertility at that point
and is it because fewer eggs
are being made is that the
issue. Well, a woman is born
with all the eoc she’s ever
going to have.
>> And so over time there’s
always a continual loss of
aches and the quality of the
eggs may also decline
and so a woman who is 25 may
have a larger number of banks
and a higher quality of eggs.
A woman who is 39 we’ll have a
fewer number of eggs and the
quality may not be as good to
eat, so it’s interesting
because we hear more and more
particularly on Hollywood.
>> You know more and more you
know actresses who are having
children later in life but in
general for the for the mass
public is there a specific age
at which
you know it is more difficult
for a woman to become pregnant
or just depend on the woman.
>> A lot of it depends on the
woman. But we do know that
fertility declines from about
the late 20’s about age 27 we
start seeing a slow decline in
fertility about age 37 to 38
that decline becomes much more
rapid.
So for people who are over 35
if they’ve been trying to get
pregnant for 6 months or longer
I would recommend considering
seeing a fertility specialist
so is that so you’re saying 6
months sometimes couple may
even try longer and think well,
I’m just stressed there.
>> They they contributed to all
of these factors but really 6
months is not really that long
to be trying. It sounds like
the diagnosis of infertility
actually requires 12 months of
attempting to conceive.
However. For women who
are older. We don’t have as
much time and so they have been
conceived in 6 months they wait
yet another 6 months maybe even
more difficult for them.
>> And is there, but it are you
speaking specifically of women
maybe who are 35 and older or
what if your
32 is an example ing and you’ve
been trying percent or someone
who was under 35 I would
recommend giving it up 12
months of trying. Unless
there’s a few factors that may
play a role.
If you had any sort of table
issues in the past for people
who don’t have regular periods.
We need to see a center and
what are the top 3 or
4 reasons usually after someone
has come to you that you find
is is preventing or making it
difficult for a couple to
conceive. I would say some of
the top reasons would probably
be an age related touchline
infertility. There’s also male
factor. For
infertility because about 50%
of couples will either have
male factor alone or a
combination of male and female
factors. So if it’s age related
male factor which may be kind
of settle probably be the top 2
reasons and it’s interesting
because you wouldn’t
necessarily know as a couple if
there is a factor with it with
you know your husband,
your spouse, or yourself you
may not even know you had
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