Getting Pregnant
Getting Pregnant – Smoking & Infertility – How Smoking Hurts Male & Female Fertility – Is Your Smoking habit responsible for your fertility struggles?? How Smoking Hurts Fertility and adversely effects reproduction.
It’s no secret that smoking is detrimental to your health, so it should be no surprise that smoking can affect your fertility. If you are a smoker and planning to have a baby, the best thing you can do is stop before trying to get pregnant.
How Smoking Hurts Fertility
Effects of smoking on pregnancy– Not only decreasing fertility, smoking increases the risk of miscarriage and may even increase the risk of a tubal pregnancy. Smoking results in placental insufficiency, which may cause inadequate growth of the developing infant. Smoking is also associated with premature birth.
Do you know Smoking May Shorten Your Biological Clock:?
Some studies have shown that smoking can cause not only problems with fertility while you’re smoking, but lead to lowered fertility in the future.
Men produce new sperm throughout their lives, but women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. Once those eggs are damaged, there’s no going back. Smoking may decrease the total number of eggs a woman has in her ovaries and cause the ovaries to age prematurely.
Toxins in cigarettes may also lead to DNA damage to the ovarian follicles, where the eggs normally develop to maturity.
This premature aging of the ovaries and decrease in eggs may lead to earlier menopause, as much as four years earlier than normal.
Smoking can increase many fertility problems for women, including:
Affecting your eggs and causing ovulation problems, damaging your cervix and fallopian tubes Increasing risks for miscarriageand other problems during pregnancy and at birth
Is Your Smoking habit responsible for your fertility struggles??
How Smoking Hurts Male Fertility:
Smoking damages sperm, making them less likely to fertilise eggs — and making the embryos they do manage to create less likely to survive. Smoking Degrades Sperm Protein Needed for Fertility, Embryo Survival.
Why Smokers’ Sperm Are Less Fertile: Male Fertility
Human sperm cells carry two tiny, highly charged proteins called protamine 1 and protamine 2. Nature keeps them in a perfectly balanced one-to-one relationship. But in smokers, sperm cells carry too little protamine 2. This imbalance makes them highly vulnerable to DNA damage.
The DNA alphabet of these sperm has one or two letters missing. And this cannot be repaired. When we inject these damaged sperm into an egg cell, the sperm is not capable of fertilising the cell. And even if it does, the [miscarriage] rate is very high.
We recommend couples seeking treatment for fertility to stop smoking at least three months before they attempt pregnancy or in vitro fertilisation. It’s a good idea to quit smoking before you even consider pregnancy.
Smoking also affects both male & female fertility. And even if only one member of a couple smokes, second-hand smoke tends to affect the fertility of his or her partner.
How Smoking Hurts Male & Female Fertility
Quitting smoking before you even start trying to get pregnant may:
improve your chances of conceiving
be easier on your body
healthier for your baby
lower the risk of miscarrying the pregnancy
lower the risk of birth defects for your baby
Couple trying to become pregnant – Men and women hoping to become parents must make serious efforts to stop smoking in order to get pregnant and have healthy babies.
If you are a smoker and want to get pregnant… NOW IS THE TIME TO QUIT!!!
Ectopic pregnancy is when a pregnancy grows outside of your uterus, usually in your fallopian tube. Ectopic pregnancies are rare but serious, and they need to be treated.
What’s an ectopic pregnancy? An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilised egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus. Pregnancy begins with a fertilised egg. Normally, the fertilised egg attaches to the lining of the uterus.
Ectopic Pregnancy: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
Normal pregnancies develop inside your uterus, after a fertilised egg travels through your fallopian tube and attaches to your uterine lining. Ectopic pregnancy is when a fertilised egg attaches somewhere else in your body, usually in your fallopian tube — that’s why it’s sometimes called “tubal pregnancy.”
Ectopic pregnancies are rare — it happens in about 2 out of every 100 pregnancies. But they’re very dangerous if not treated. Fallopian tubes can break if stretched too much by the growing pregnancy — this is sometimes called a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. This can cause internal bleeding, infection, and in some cases lead to death.
Ectopic Pregnancy Symptoms
You may not notice anything at first. However, some women with an ectopic pregnancy have the usual early signs or symptoms of pregnancy — a missed period, breast tenderness and nausea.
If you take a pregnancy test, the result will be positive. Still, an ectopic pregnancy can’t continue as normal.
Signs and symptoms increase as the fertilised egg grows in the improper place.
Early warning of ectopic pregnancy
Often, the first warning sign of an ectopic pregnancy is pelvic pain. Light vaginal bleeding may also occur.
If blood leaks from the fallopian tube, you may feel increasing abdominal pain, an urge to have a bowel movement or pelvic discomfort. If heavy bleeding (hemorrhaging) occurs, you may feel shoulder pain as blood fills your pelvis and abdomen. Your specific symptoms depend on where the blood collects and which nerves are irritated.
Emergency symptoms during ectopic pregnancy
If the fertilised egg continues to grow in the fallopian tube, it can cause the tube to rupture. Heavy bleeding inside the abdomen is likely. Symptoms of this life-threatening event include extreme lightheadedness, fainting, severe abdominal pain and shock.
It is important to contact your doctor immediately if you are experiencing sharp pain that lasts more than a few minutes or if you have bleeding.
Ectopic pregnancies are diagnosed by your physician, who will probably first perform a pelvic exam to locate pain, tenderness, or a mass in the abdomen. Your physician will also use an ultrasound to determine whether the uterus contains a developing fetus.
Can I get pregnant again after an ectopic pregnancy?
Most people who have an ectopic pregnancy can have healthy pregnancies in the future, depending on the treatment you had and the condition of your fallopian tubes. If one of your fallopian tubes was removed or your tubes are scarred, it may be more difficult to get pregnant. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, you’re more likely to get another one in the future.
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About 20 percent of females coming to our Blossom IVF Centre are found to have problems in fallopian tubes. Few of reasons of blocked fallopian tubes are Pelvic infections (PID) leading to salpingitis and hydrosalpinx, Ectopic pregnancy, Tubal Ligation(family planning) surgery, Adhesions following abdominal surgery and Genital Tuberculosis.
Tubal factor infertility (TFI) is female infertility
Sometimes with help of our good intentions and help of latest technology , we can bring abundance joy in life of couples who have lost their children untimely because of illnesses or accidents.
Today, let me share a fruitful story of a patient with blocked fallopian tubes. A poor couple from Kolkata, who had lost 2nd son 7 years before at the age of 5 years due to severe infection in brain(meningitis) and the unfortunate wife had undergone family planning surgery at the time of delivery as they did not want a third child in future.
But after losing her beloved son ,she was under tremendous depression and she could not forget her lost young one. So she was brought to me for counselling and to discuss future treatment options to make their dreams of parenthood real again .
Getting Pregnant After Tubal Blockage
Here I offered them two options, discussing pros and cons of both treatments.
First option was to undergo family planning reversal surgery, though it is cheaper option than Test-tube baby treatment, It is painful as it is major surgery, success rates are less than 25%, chances of ectopic pregnancy(which if remains undiagnosed ,can prove life-threatening) and here as patient was already 35 ,her eggs reserve was also declining rapidly, much lowering the success of the procedure.
So as a second option ,they were offered IVF ,In which after few days of hormonal treatment to prepare her eggs, her eggs were removed from ovaries with a minor procedure, and fertilisation of her eggs and husband’s sperms were done in laboratory by IVF ICSI procedure.(In normal circumstances, this fertilisation occurs in fallopian tubes ,which was not possible in her case due to family planning surgery) and then embryos made by this procedure were transferred to patient’s uterus after 5 days and after 14 days her pregnancy test was positive and after 9 month ,she delivered a baby boy again. The couple was overwhelmed by having this bundle of joy again in their lives as according to them ,their lost son took re-birth again to make their lives meaningful.
