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Pregnancy Help

by Katy

Most fertility clinics will provide you with a pregnancy test a couple of weeks after your treatment but if you want to do one for yourself, home pregnancy test kits will also give you a reasonably accurate reading after fourteen days. Many women forget that often when home pregnancy tests are carried out too soon after treatment, they can sometimes indicate a false positive answer.

If you are expecting a child, you might start to notice other clues such as dropping your period, sickness, sore breasts, wanting to go to the bathroom more often, fatigue, sensitivity to strong tastes and odors, as well as mood swings.

Normally the fertility clinic will keep in contact with you so they can go through checks to guarantee your baby’s development is safe. Sometimes they do not offer continuing care, in which event you will have to sort out your own prenatal care and birth.

If your fertility treatment is a success, don’t be worried if you are not as overjoyed as you thought you would be as it can take a while to adapt to this. The feelings a woman goes through are natural for most women when they discover they are going to have a baby, and it doesn’t matter if they became pregnant by normal means or via fertility treatment.

Emotionally, you may find being pregnant tough but physically your pregnancy should not be any more distinct to someone who didn’t have fertility treatment. At times however, it may be essential for them to have supplemental scans at the hospital. If this happens it could be they have had previous problems with a miscarriage, stillbirth or health problems for instance. One fundamental reason might be the mum’s age because the older you get the more likely complications can happen.

You may be surprised to learn that over a million children around the globe have been born as a result of aided conception treatment such as In Vitro Fertilization and the prospects are you will give bear a healthy baby. That is not to say there won’t be any problems because every medical treatment and every pregnancy have some danger, even those conceived by normal means, but luckily nearly all of the problems are minor. While you may find it tiresome, try to relax and enjoy your pregnancy if you are able.

Unfortunately the amount of stillbirths that occur after employing IVF is above those for normal conception. Ordinarily there are only a couple of situations that can cause this: the first being that women that receive fertility treatment have a pregnancy test quite early in the pregnancy. Alternatively, a woman who becomes pregnant naturally may go through what she believes is a late period when in truth an embryo has been produced, but failed to implant. Secondly, there is a greater chance of losing the baby when you are mature and women who have fertility treatment are usually older normally than those who become pregnant naturally. If you have any other concerns it is best to consult with your fertility clinic doctor.

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10 Comments to “Pregnancy Help”

  1. on 04 Apr 2009 at 8:53 amaniss

    It’s like a Mister Potato Head - Obama style. CREEPY.

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  3. on 05 Apr 2009 at 6:29 amDallas Listings

    +100 for all posts here, except MVB who unfortunately has used the teleprompter reference each of the first xx number of days of the presidency. Then again the points mean nothing, and the scoring is all made up.

  4. on 06 Apr 2009 at 9:22 pmBabies Online

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  5. on 06 Apr 2009 at 11:09 pmMiniMage the Wicked

    Turgidity IS the point, but some young men will happily use the drugs–even the ones that must be INJECTED into the area in question, whether they truly need them or not. *listens for sounds of male FFers screaming and reaching reflexively*

  6. on 07 Apr 2009 at 4:06 amMikeAmundsen

    “A growing embryo which has fixed itself inside one of the Fallopian tubes is known as an ‘ectopic pregnancy’ and is indeed a life-threatening condition.”

  7. on 08 Apr 2009 at 1:39 amtammydoody

    not after 5 days i am afraid

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  9. on 08 Apr 2009 at 10:41 amAnnette Lyon

    This is basically how I handled the news of my first pregnancy. We were going out of town for a few days, and I wanted all my friends to know but didn’t have time to tell them all. So I told the biggest blabbermouth of them all and let her do the work. :)

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