PeterChew

As the title suggests, I had to wait for 10 years until I was able to finally conceive. This is my story. 10 years ago, when I was 26, I was happily married to my wonderful husband, David. We both loved children and wanted to have one of our own someday. We didn’t really look into doing family planning very seriously, as we were ok to start a family as long as we could conceive. During the first few years of our marriage, we were both still busy with our careers. We would casually try to have a baby, but it seemed like we weren’t able to conceive any children. At the point of time, we thought “we are still young, it’s okay to wait a little longer to have children”. David and I were still happy to have each other and didn’t let this become an issue between us. Over the years, people would ask us when we were going to have kids, but we simply just told them that we will just “see how”. If it happens, it happens. When I was 32, we decided that it was about time to seriously st...

It may be that one partner cannot contribute to conception, or that a woman is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term. It is often defined as not conceiving after 12 months of regular sexual intercourse without the use of birth control.  In the United States, around 10 percent of women aged 15 to 44 years are estimated to have difficulty conceiving or staying pregnant. Worldwide, 8 to 12 percent of couples experience fertility problems. Between 45 and 50 percent of cases are thought to stem from factors that affect the man.  Treatment is often available.  Causes in men  The following are common causes of infertility in men.  Semen and sperm  Sometimes the sperm cannot travel effectively to meet the egg.  Semen is the milky fluid that a man’s penis releases during orgasm. Semen consists of fluid and sperm. The fluid comes from the prostate gland, the seminal vesicle, and other sex glands.  The...