September 2010

infertility in people's minds

Actually, the title already totally wrong, because this topic does not exist in the population. We grow up with the assumption that we are now pregnant with unprotected sex are and we should avoid at all costs if we do not want to throw every year. So we swallow the pill and pull gum from a vending machine and measure the temperature and all this nonsense in order to expose no unwanted child to get.

We believe that we are now pregnant, if we remove the pill. And for most women to succeed even after a few months. Some have to wait a little longer, until it works. And some wait in vain.

Only then does one deal with this issue too. In Germany about 17% of the generation willing couples are affected. The causes are many. Is well known that some men produce less sperm. But that there are also azoospermia in the ejaculate that is not to find a single float, of which probably have the least heard something. And then a medicine not to be.

assistance der Frau gibt es eine Fülle von Ursachen. Z.B. Endometriose , PCO , Chlamydien und viele andere Gründe für Unfruchtbarkeit gibt es, von denen man wohl noch nie etwas gehört hat, es sei denn man ist selbst betroffen.

Eigentlich ist es traurig. Diese Ignoranz der Gesellschaft führt dazu, dass Betroffene lieber schweigen. Männer vielleicht, weil sie glauben, nicht als ganzer Mann angesehen zu werden, wenn sie zeugungsunfähig sind. Die Gründe von Frauen dürften ähnlich liegen.

Und wenn man dann doch mal aus sich raus geht und jemandem erzählt, dass man keine Kinder bekommen kann, dann bekommt man so blödsinnige Advice on how

- "Make it a holiday and relax you, nothing else can be yes."

- "Drink but this child-Come-tea with my friend XYZ has also worked and she was now pregnant."

- "Stand up but after the sex on the head so the swimmers do not have it so hard."

well-intentioned but completely wrong. For if there is no Schwimmerchen or the woman comes slowly in the menopause, then it is more likely that you have a sixth in the lottery as that one is pregnant. And this awareness is lacking in most people.

Why am I not pregnant?

First of all, must have the woman ovulates. To ovulation around the so-called fertile days, and only on those days when you have sex, it can even be pregnant. On all other days rumturnen can be as much as you want, because nothing will come of it.

Second hurdle: Then the man must have enough sperm in the ejaculate. 20 million per milliliter are normal. With 5 million, it could be that perhaps in a few years time pregnant at some point. But if the number goes down further, then it works even in 100 years is not! Not even if you are on holiday drinking tea on its head.

third hurdle: the Schwimmerchen reach the egg in the fallopian tube. Vorrausgesetzt the fallopian tubes ist durchlässig, denn gerade bei Endo-Patientinnen kommt es häufiger vor, dass diese völlig verklebt sind.

Vierte Hürde: Ein Spermium muss in die Eizelle eindringen. Das ist auch nicht so einfach. Leider finde ich den Artikel nicht, aber ich glaube ich habe mal gelesen, dass viele (ca. 100) Spermien überhaupt notwendig sind, damit eines in die Eizelle eindringen kann. Soweit ich mich erinnere, sondern die Köpfe der Schwimmer eine Substanz ab, die die Eihülle durchlässig macht. Es stimmt also schonmal nicht, dass theoretisch ein einziges Spermium ausreichen würde, um eine Schwangerschaft herbeizuführen.

Soweit hat das der Durchschnittsmensch vermutlich auch schon mal gehört und so on. And believe at this point most of that then runs an internal mechanisms: the sperm into the egg cell is is a woman pregnant. But the is not so.

Fifth hurdle: The egg must be fertilized now. This complex process can go wrong a lot. Finally, 46 pairs of chromosomes are mixed and again auseinanderklamüsert. The most famous error that can occur here is that Down's syndrome, also called Triomie 21 since the 21 Chromosome in these individuals occurs in three ways. Since these children are viable and in Germany about every 500th - 800 Child is born with this genetic defect Everybody is familiar with a person with Down syndrome. Most other genetic defects are by nature but not tolerated and the egg will not divide after fertilization. Maybe lucky, who knows what monsters we would otherwise give birth ...

sixth hurdle: The fertilized egg must begin to share. Again, this does not succeed, and each egg is certainly very much on how well the merger process was successful. Does it not, the woman will get their normal period and never come up with the idea that a fertilized egg has been in her body.

seventh hurdle: The multi-cell must establish themselves. This must be built first, the uterine lining enough. Second, it must be strong enough to hatch from the egg can. Ah, by now one or the other says well that he has never heard of it. In fertility treatment may be the nachgeholfen. The method is called Assissted Hatching, but is not practiced by all clinics. One of the reasons is probably that a pregnancy with a multi-cell, which can not accomplish the Schlüpfvorgang on its own, is not desirable, since any higher malformation rates could be expected, I think.

eighth hurdle: Well, of multicellular organisms has hatched and makes himself comfortable on the endometrium. But here also he manage to infiltrate. This is also a complicated process, as understood on the one hand, the immune system of women, that it is not this is a foreign body that needs to be attacking.

ninth hurdle: Ultimately, this being a parasite that wants to be fed. So there must be tapping into something. If successful, then slowly develops into an embryo. But often this is not folded, the cell mass dies and there is a delay and a little more bleeding. Even here, many women are unaware that they were already a little bit pregnant. Which brings us back to the theme that I use the slogan "A little bit pregnant, there is not!" find it absolutely stupid and probably also only to hear of people get to do during your vacation drinking tea head stands. But also I had already missed.

tenth hurdle: the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Actually, there are only 10, because one always expects from the first day of last period, it is the only ovulate about two weeks later. And then it takes a few days until the fertilized egg implants itself. But no matter, we take the medical computation and say 12th Week. Within this time there is often early miscarriages. So you should tell his employer and only then, that one is expecting a child, because it's silly if you then have an abortion and the employer knows that man gerade bastelt. Die Ursachen sind auch hier vielfältig: Abstoßungsreaktionen der Frau, Gendefekte, Hormonstörungen etc.

Elfte Hürde: Hat man die ersten 12 Wochen überstanden, und damit auch die Übelkeit und die Hormonumstellung, kann man schon fast von einer stabilen Schwangerschaft reden. Doch auch das ist ein Trugschluss. Denn die weiteren 12 Wochen bis zur 24. Schwangerschaftswoche ist das Baby außerhalb des Mutterleibes nicht überlebensfähig. Sollte es in dieser Zeit also zu Blutungen kommen oder anderen Komplikationen, könnte es sein, dass man das Baby verliert und es zu einer Fehlgeburt kommt.

Zwölfte Hürde: Ab der 23./24. Schwangerschaftswoche haben Ärzte schon Preemie squandered. But there is significant risk for permanent damage. Desirable it is not that the babies are already so early in the world. But with twins, a much longer gestation is sometimes not possible. And there are also plenty of other reasons why it may come to a premature birth: infections, eclampsia (toxemia), gestational diabetes, placental abruption, toxoplasmosis, listeriosis, etc. pp.

Thirteenth hurdle: From the 36th Week of pregnancy the baby is developing perfectly and places the last four weeks only on weight. Now it has only come into the world. In our part of this is achieved in 97% of the Problem cases, in which case the C-sections are also included. But believe it or not, it is also us, there are significant complications that may even lead to death of the infant and sometimes death of the mother. Fortunately, this is extremely rare.

Fourteenth hurdle: The baby is fine and healthy mother. But then comes the dreaded first year in which this may lead to sudden infant death syndrome. We do everything the other hand, the babies do not bed on her stomach and not on mattresses with coconut core. Nevertheless, this can happen.

Fifteenth hurdle: I want to call it quits, because if you made it to the first birthday of the child has, it can really hardly happen. are accidents and disease are everywhere in the world and threaten not only children but also us adults. Such is life.

Sun, and the next, which advises me to put me on the head, I pull off the same. Or you know a better way to make people understand that fertility is not natural?