Pregnancy Videos | What Is Conception?

What is conception? Well these is when a sperm meets the an egg and implant into the woman’s uterine wall. That how you get pregnant. Hear more what Dr. Jay Goldberg an Obstetrician/Gynecologist explain and talk on some factors of concern to couples having problem in getting pregnant. Dr. Goldberg have an averages about 150 to 175 deliveries per year and has delivered over 2000 babies so far. The factors he touch on are:

• What is “conception”?
• What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?
• How does my age affect my ability to conceive?
• How can I improve my chances of getting pregnant?
• How does being overweight affect my ability to conceive?
• When can I expect to conceive after I stop taking hormonal contraceptives?
• When should I seek professional advice if I’m concerned about conceiving?

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The Transcript of this video.

What is conception?

Conception is the act between a sperm and an egg. Conception is when a sperm and an egg meet, and then they implant themselves into the uterine wall.

What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?

The factors that would affect a woman’s ability to conceive include such things as a prior infectious history, where it affected the patency of your fallopian tubes. In particular, chlamydia is most known for that, but pelvic inflammatory disease or any pelvic infection can damage your tubes. A prior surgery can cause problems, where you’ve had surgery in the past and it’s damaged the fallopian tubes and their ability to allow the sperm and the egg to meet. You can have had a history of something called endometriosis that can damage the integrity of the fallopian tubes, as well. Lifestyle as well, leading a poor lifestyle like cigarette smoking and such, can sometimes increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy, which is a pregnancy outside the uterus. Those are several factors that can affect the ability to concieve.

How does my age affect my ability to conceive?

Age is a major factor in your ability to conceive. A woman’s most fertile period of life, when it’s easiest to conceive is probably in her early twenties; late teens, early twenties. As time goes on, the quality of the eggs diminishes. Eggs are generated or formed at conception, so a woman’s eggs are a finite number. You have a certain amount when you’re born. At puberty it’s less, at 20 it’s less, at 30 it’s less. So by 40-45 years old your ability to spontaneously conceive without the assistance of fertility specialists is less than 1% at that point.

How can I improve my chances of getting pregnant?

You can increase your chances of getting pregnant by doing all the things that you should do, like leading a good healthy lifestyle. To increase chances of a successful pregnancy, protect yourself in your teens and twenties, meaning use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections. See a doctor regularly to get routine check-ups to avoid things like abnormal Pap smears or any potential infections that could cause complications in pregnancy. Try and treat things non-surgically if possible so that you can decrease the scar tissue that might develop within your abdomen, which can interfere in pregnancy.

How does being overweight affect my ability to conceive?

Usually, we encourage you to exercise regularly, because that can release endorphins and put you in a good mood. To eat healthy, because if you are an overeater and you carry around excess adipose or fat tissue, fat tissue makes the hormone estrogen, and that can cause your periods to become irregular. So, if you’re overweight and have irregular periods, your ability to conceive is going to be less because you can’t time things really appropriately.

When can I expect to conceive after I stop taking hormonal contraceptives?

After you take hormonal contraception, there’s a myth that you should have a cleansing period of several months but my personal experience with patients is that that’s not necessarily true. There’s no reason for you to cleanse your body. You can stop the birth control pill and shortly thereafter attempt conception, and if you were to conceive, I’d be patting you on the back, not telling you that that was a mistake.

When should I seek professional advice if I’m concerned about conceiving?

Ninety percent of fertile couples conceive with in a year. So it’s usually our recommendation, if you’re under thirty-five years old, to give it a good nine months to a year. If in nine months the two of you are a little bit eager, and you want to be proactive, then I would maybe recommend seeing your healthcare professional and talking about your concerns, and then you can kind of start the ball rolling. For women over thirty-five, your ability to conceive is a little bit more difficult. So, we’d probably look into that a little bit more, and usually people recommend six months. After six months at over thirty-five years old, then I would probably seek medical advice as to how you would proceed.

Men’s And Woman’s Fertility Facts

Conception occurs when the male sperm fertilizes the female ovum. Conception occurs through many options, but the most common technique for conception is intercourse. Often, fertility and conception can be hindered by reproductive problems in either the male or the female. Other times, problems with fertility and conception are the result of bad timing when intercourse does not take place during ovulation. Since fertility and conception go hand in hand, a couple that experiences fertility problems have a more difficult time of achieving conception. As such, many clinics and specialists are dedicated to helping couples achieve conception after fertility problems have occurred.

How Can Infertility Clinics Help?

One of the ways that infertility clinics help couples achieve conception is through fertility drugs. Depending on the diagnosis, companies offer fertility drugs to both men and women. Patients can decide between fertility drugs that you can inject directly or they can choose fertility drugs that are available in a pill format, depending on their particular case and personal preferences. Consulting a fertility and conception specialist is the best idea for making sure you receive the ideal treatment for your specific case.

Female fertility drugs are based on the production and release of the luteinizing hormone and the follicle stimulating hormone in women. These two hormones work together to trigger the release of an ovum into the fallopian tube so it can begin the process of fertilization. Some fertility drugs for women bypass the production of these hormones which causes the egg to be released. Instead, fertility drugs serve to induce ovulation. They do this by helping to create more than one mature egg so that several can be released during ovulation which increases the chance of conception. Often, fertility drugs can be the solution to a couple’s inability to achieve conception. Other times, fertility drugs are used with a combination of other methods and medications to solve the problem.

Fertility drugs are one way to deal with fertility issues in males. When a male’s sperm count is too low or the sperm are not strong enough, a doctor can prescribe medication or other treatments that will help the male increase his sperm count. These treatments also help to release toxins from the body which is often a factor that hinders the effectiveness of the male’s sperm. With a higher sperm count and stronger sperm, the male has an increased chance of fertilizing the female’s egg and achieving conception.

Fertility and conception are an overwhelming theme in our society. As such, trying to achieve conception often becomes the most important goal in the relationships of many couples. When problems occur, they turn to doctors who specialize in fertility and pregnancy. One of the most common methods to overcome fertility problems is through a variety of fertility drugs, but these are not without their problems. Having a specialist aid in your fertility and conception is just as important as following up with a physician after the use of fertility drugs in order to address any side effects they may produce.

Here more about infertility issues

• Male Fertility Common Causes Treatments
  
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• Fertility Problems Can Often Arise Without Warning
• Conceive Using Infertility Treatments
• Picking Infertility Clinics
• Fertility Drug Guide
• Dealing With Infertility Issues Together

Pregnancy Videos | Sex And Pregnancy Myths

Dr. Michele Hakakha an Obstetrician/Gynecologist talk on sex and pregnancy myths. She is an expert in female fertility. She had answer some of the question most frequent ask about from couples and do hear what she had to say on sex during pregnancy. She elaborated on the following questions:

• Is it true I can’t get pregnant when I’m on my period?
• Is it true I can’t get pregnant from pre-ejaculation?
• Is it true I can’t get pregnant if I don’t orgasm?
• If I have sex in water, does that prevent me from getting pregnant?
• Will sex hurt my baby during pregnancy?
• Is anal sex safer during pregnancy than vaginal intercourse?
• If the man orgasms before the woman, does that mean they’ll have a girl?
• Are orgasms unhealthy for fetuses?

Pregnancy Videos | During Second And Third Trimester Of Pregnancy

See Dr. Jay Goldberg elaborated more on the Second and Third Trimester Of Pregnancy. In these videos he will talk about the most common pregnancy symptoms and the what medical exam is been done during the second and third trimester and the ways to determine the gender of your baby too.

Pregnancy Video on Second Trimester Of Pregnancy

What are common pregnancy symptoms during the 2nd trimester?

During the second trimester the common pregnancy symptom are:

• Your body typically not showing so much of being pregnant.
• You may start to develop something and only you will definitely notice but most people may not.
• You actually start to feel better during the second trimester. The breast tenderness sometimes lessens. The nausea sometimes dissipates quite a bit
• About 20 weeks where you can start to feel the baby move. Most women at about 20 weeks will feel the baby move. Some feel it at 18 weeks and some feel it even sooner, especially if it’s not your first baby. Some don’t feel it until 22 or 23 weeks in the second trimester. The most important factor here is if you did not feed the baby move after 23 weeks at all do consult your doctor, because there are reasons why you may not be feeling it, but you just want to be reassured.

What medical exams occur in the 2nd trimester?

In the second trimester the medical exams are a triple marker or known as Quad test and the AFP test which is a screening test that’s done between 16 and 18 weeks to determine the risk of certain abnormalities that can occur with the baby. In around 18 to 22 weeks, expecting mother patients should go for an ultrasound to look at the baby from head to toe and check the anatomy of the baby performs by a perinatalogist.

Pregnancy Video on Third Trimester Of Pregnancy

What are common pregnancy symptoms during the 3rd trimester?

The third trimester can is a little more difficult because at this point you are starting to get a little bit bigger. The pregnancy symptom you may have:

• You may find it harder to sleep comfortably.
• You will get up throughout the night to urinate.
• You might get up throughout the night because your hips are sore or your arm falls asleep.
• You might get constipation and it’s not often uncommon for that to be followed by haemorrhoids.
• You tends to get a little tired easily.
• You start to kind of get over the ‘Oh I’m pregnant’ stage and start looking forward to the ‘I want to be a mummy’ stage.

What are common third trimester medical exams?

In the third trimester the first test that will be performed will be the gestational diabetes screening test. It’s simply a test in which you drink a concentrated sugar drink, and then get your blood drawn to determine what the level is. Based on the lab where this is drawn, if the level is higher than the cutoff, you will have screened positive for gestational diabetes. If so, then a more definitive diagnostic test will be performed. Most doctors perform a CBC, or a complete blood count, with that initial gestational diabetes screening to determine if anemia has set in, which is not uncommon in the third trimester of pregnancy. It may be recommended that you supplement iron during the third trimester of pregnancy as well.

How will my doctor determine my baby’s gender?

There are a couple of ways to determine the gender of your baby. You can have an ultrasound performed, typically after sixteen weeks, and if the baby is positioned correctly, the gender can be visualized. If you get an invasive test, like a CVS or an Amnio, if your age is over thirty-five, or if a screening test has come back positive for that, then those tests do determine the gender of the baby as well.

Pregnancy Videos | During First Trimester Of Pregnancy

Dr. Jay Goldberg an Obstetrician/Gynecologist talk on some of concern of what happen during your pregnancy during your first trimester of pregnancy. Dr. Goldberg have an averages about 150 to 175 deliveries per year and has so far, delivered over 2000 babies. Hear what he had elaborated on some of expecting mothers questions on:

How do you determine your baby’s due date?
What medical exams occur in the First trimester?
What will happen at a routine exam during my pregnancy?
How do I alleviate my nausea during my pregnancy?

How do I determine my baby’s due date?

There is two ways to find out your baby’s due date. The first way is the expecting mothers must have an accurate menstrual cycle in order get it accurate. Take the first day of your last menstrual cycle, take that number subtract with three months and then follow by adding seven days. For example if your last menstrual cycle is 20 May then your due date will be on Feb 27. But this not always accurate because not all woman menstrual cycle are consistent.

The second way is to visit your personal Obstetrician/Gynecologist. Your Obstetrician/Gynecologist have a equipment ultra sound to take measure of fetal during the First trimester specifically in the first 8 to 10 weeks. This is persistent to the due date.

What medical exams occur in the First trimester?

For the first trimester, the medical exams include ultrasound, a blood test to determine a generic panel, pap smear and vaginal cultures to check for any sexually transmitted infections, yeast and bacteria infections that are possible.

How much will my baby develop during the first trimester?

Baby is developing in the first trimester. The baby is initially a plate and then it forms a tube. This whole process takes place in the first six to eight weeks of pregnancy. Most of the things will have been develops in the first trimester and on the second and third trimester, the baby is simply just growing in size.

What will happen at a routine exam during my pregnancy?

When you go for a routine exam at maybe 12 weeks, your Obstetrician/Gynecologist will discuss with you the how often you need to come back for routine exam. At around between 16 and 18 weeks routine visit will do the screening blood tests. From there your Obstetrician/Gynecologist will typically do an ultrasound and look at the anatomy of the baby at your next visit. Your Obstetrician/Gynecologist inform you at your current visit what to anticipate at the next visit.

How do I alleviate my nausea during my pregnancy?

Nausea in pregnancy can be alleviated in several different ways that can make you feel better.

• Aroma of simply massaging a citrus fruit in your hands.
• There some people wearing wristbands for sea sickness, those pressure point wristbands.
• Ginger products such as ginger snaps, ginger ale or simply chewing on ginger.
• Vitamin B6
• Medications that are in the market that your physician can recommend to you

These are some main techniques that people usually refer to when they have nausea in early pregnancy. But some make you even more nauseated so it a trial-and-error thing for each individual expecting mother.

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