Have you ever found yourself talking to a friend about your fertility struggle, when a blank, horrified look begins to crawl across her face? She’s probably blissfully ignorant about all a person can go through to conceive. Except for those of us who’ve been forced to learn firsthand about things like stimming, egg retrieval, male factor infertility, and reproductive endocrinology, these terms may as well be Greek to most people. For a “fertile”, the concept of getting pregnant is usually something to the effect of get frisky;sperm meets egg; buy home pregnancy test; have baby.

But a new study out of the UK suggests that this ignorance may not be all that blissful, after all. According to Medical News Today, two out of three British women between the ages of 25-40 “don’t know there is only a small window of opportunity (two ‘peak’ fertile days) in which they can conceive each month…which could be costing some women months or in worst cases years of unnecessary frustration, because they could be trying to conceive at the wrong time.”

Okay, stop laughing. I know that for most of you reading this article, pinpointing the exact moment your egg drops each month is as intuitive as getting dressed each morning, but let’s think about this for a minute.

There is a lot of poor information out there - before you discovered your infertility, did you have any inkling of just how hard it might be to get pregnant? I don’t know about you, but I spent many years trying NOT to see that little blue plus sign. All my knowledge was focused on NOT getting pregnant. Maybe if we were made more aware of our fertility earlier on, some of us would’ve been spared some pain and frustration?

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Tags : fertility, infertility
Categories : Conception