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Infertility and difficulties getting pregnant can be a devastating situation for a couple. While many fortunate couples get easily pregnant, others may face complications while trying to conceive. Nowadays there are several medical procedures that can be done in order to help couples that are struggling with infertility. Trying to conceive can be difficult, but remaining hopeful helps a lot!
Infertility is a medical problem that results in the inability to conceive a child or carry a pregnancy to full term. A couple is usually diagnosed as infertile after one year of frequent, unprotected, sexual intercourse. Researches have estimated that 10 to 15% of couples are infertile, about 35% of infertility cases can be traced as women physical problems, other 35% have causes in the men. While the remaining 30% of cases, is either unexplained or is caused by problems in both partners.
The inability to have children may be one of the greatest challenges that a person or couple would have to overcome. Coping with the fact that you may not be able to ever get pregnant it is not an easy thing to do. It affects people emotionally, physically, and financially. It can be a tremendous stress on a couple’s relationship and on their family and friends.
On a physical level, the fact of having to be examined and tested monthly, weekly, or even daily is embarrassing, exhausting, and very expensive. Medications often have side effects, and daily injections may be required. Surgery is often necessary, and several procedures are needed. As the process continues over months and years, the couple’s privacy is invaded physically and emotionally often in times. One or both of the partners will have to learn to put aside their feelings as they lie down on the examining table, or have fluids taken, or give sperm for the tenth, twentieth, or fiftieth time.
At the same time, family, friends and coworkers will pressure couples by waiting to see if this month will bring good the news. The couple becomes used to hearing, “Anything new?” with an expectant smile. They also hear comments like, “Maybe you should take a month off and just relax,” or “A vacation would do you good”, or even “At least you can have fun trying.” To make it even worse, throughout this experience, the couple regularly hears of others who have become pregnant. In fact, it sometimes seems as if the whole world is pregnant.
Some of these experiences often make the infertile person feel like a failure. The feelings come up each time there is a treatment failure or when another friend or acquaintance announces a pregnancy. When no pregnancy results, after each expensive procedure or round of treatment, the disappointment turns to devastation. Many infertile people become depressed and anxious. It is often recommended marital counseling during infertility treatment, because not all couples cope with these situations alone.
The strain in the marriage and among family members sometimes becomes unbearable. The self-esteem of one or both partners plummets. They often feel lonely, sad, and angry. The long series of disappointments that many experiences can cause a numbing effect, and depression can result. In extremely situations, the one partner who has the medical problem that is causing the infertility, he or she often feels guilty and may even offer the other a divorce. At the same time, the infertile person may fear that he/she is not satisfying the other partner’s needs, and they might withdraw from marriage.
Once again, a case of infertility is always a very distressful situation to cope in various ways. It is difficult to even enunciate all the disappointments, problems, and stress a couple may have to overcome; because, each person is distinct and may react and cope in a different way. We can not predict any person’s reactions, and we are not trying to say that all cases end in a failure of marriage or medical procedures. Many couples do succeed, and after being exposed to all these situations, the feeling of finally bringing a child to this world is so overwhelming and joyful that they might feel that going through all over again is worthy.
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