Pregnant Father

1. Your mate’s testicles have to be producing healthy sperm that can swim the distance to your egg and then penetrate it.

2. Your ovaries must be making healthy eggs that are released when you ovulate once a month.

3. To produce the best sperm that are ready to make the longdistance swim up through your reproductive tract, have fun.
4. The egg, which is released when you ovulate, has to be able to make an easy journey to one of your fallopian tubes. Obstructions in the tube, for instance, will interfere with your fertility.
5. Your partner’s sperm have to be able to swim freely. If they encounter physical, chemical, or mucus barriers in your cervix, the race toward conception can be lost.
6. After fertilization, your egg has to move to your uterus at a time in your physiological cycle when it can safely implant
itself in the uterine wall.
7. The ovum has only twelve to twenty-four hours of life in
which to match up with the right sperm.
8. Meanwhile, sperm have twenty-four to seventy-two hours of meaningful life inside your body.

In other words, you and your mate have about three really perfect days during each menstrual cycle to make a baby. The unfertilized egg can live for up to twenty-four hours once a month. If sexual intercourse doesn’t take place exactly on target, when both egg and sperm are ready, nothing will happen. So start synchronizing your calendars.

worried:

Probably not. Statistics indicate that 75 percent of all couples can get pregnant easily within the first six months of trying and up to 90 percent will be successful within a year. If you’ve just begun to consider pregnancy, then don’t worry yet. Every day in the world, hundreds of thousands of babies are being conceived.

To be fertile one of your ovaries must produce and then release a ripe, healthy egg approximately before your next expected period begins. This little egg, or ovum, will remain viable for about two days in your reproductive tract. The next thing that must happen depends on your fallopian tubes. You have two tubes, but only one is needed to pick up the ovum as it drops from your ovary or to retrieve it from the floor of your pelvic cavity. The tube must be open, however. Fertilization will take place when healthy sperm enter your vagina and swim upstream through your cervix and uterus and right on into the fallopian tube, which has captured the ovum. One little sperm, only one-thousandth of an inch long, is all that you need to get pregnant. However, this sperm must be strong enough to swim a distance that some experts liken to crossing the English Channel three times without stopping. As it happens, millions of sperm do start the race, but only a few hundred survive this long occurs when the sperm penetrates distance event and only one will penetrate the egg. The successfully egg sperm manages to strike the egg at Just t e ng t angle for penetration. If you could view the process under a microscope, you might actually see the losing sperm battling for entry on the surface of the egg. Capacitation is the process by which the sperm actually penetrates the egg, and only sperm that have spent some time in a female reproductive tract, within the egg’s environment, have such power. Through a process known as the acrosome reaction, the little sperm receives a “stocking cap” on its head, which helps it to release enzymes to create a hole in the egg and, thus, make conception possible. After this happens, the fertilized egg will move down the fallopian tube and on into your uterus, or womb, where it will be implanted in the spongy wall called the endometrium. Voila! This is the very point at which pregnancy begins.
Meanwhile, you may be wondering, “Is all this moving, maneuvering for position, egg and sperm orchestration really going to happen inside me?” Yes, at least in the best of all circumstances it will. If all the organs in your reproductive tract are healthy and hormonal factors work in perfect timing, your brain really is the power behind the entire pregnancy process. Your brain signals when some hormones should rush into action and when they ought to slow up. Your emotions, you see, are directly involved with your fertility. In fact, what might seem to be a simple human endeavor-having sex and getting pregnant-soon appears to be more like a miraculous chain of events.

Talking about a baby is so very important for your relationship with the man in your life. Not only do you want to make sure your image of living happily ever after with a family coincides with the picture in his mind, but also you don’t want to make the mistake of thinking a baby will cement your partnership. Having a baby to strengthen a relationship is definitely a mistake. Becoming a parent is emotionally and physically hard work. In the best of all possible worlds, both you and your partner ought to begin with your eyes open.Aunt Edna’s red hair, Uncle Albert’s big nose. your mother’s diabetes, and your father-in-law’s hemophilia are suddenly becoming more important. While the red hair and prominent nose may not be of primary concern to you, certain disorders or conditions can be inherited and you will want to know all about them. Diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), thalassemia, Tay-Sachs disease, sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy. cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s chorea, chromosomal abnormalities, and even twins run in families. Concerned or aware of a family medical issue? Schedule a preconception counseling appointment with your primary care physician. Then, if necessary, a session with a geneticist can SLear up any confusion about familial disorders. What’s more, you may walk out with a prescription for prenatal vitamins even though you are still getting ready to get pregnant. Ask your family practitioner for a recommendation.
Consider your own health

If you have a long-standing medical condition, make an appointment with your specialist and explain your plans to become pregnant. If you haven’t had German measles or toxoplasmosis or you aren’t sure, have a blood test to check and get vaccinated before you become pregnant. German measles, especially during early pregnancy, can cause birth defects. Is your weight average for your height? Being underweight can affect your ability to get pregnant. If you are overweight, now is not the time to start a reducing diet. Your unborn baby needs vital nutrients and you are the supplier. You can’t hire someone else to supply vitamins, minerals, proteins, and carbohydrates. You’re it. If you smoke cigarettes, quit. Drinking alcohol or taking recreational drugs are not good ideas, either. Meanwhile, aerobic exercise (walking or swimming) is just great.If you have never been pregnant before, you’ve probably taken your fertility for granted. And why not! What could be more natural! You were born with more than 250,000 follicles or capsules containing immature oocytes, or eggs. Each one of these little eggs is quite capable of turning into your dream baby. Yet, timing is everything in the game of fertility, both in years and in days of your menstrual cycle. The older you get, the less fertile you become. If you are in your twenties, your timing is just right as far as age is concerned. If you are under eighteen, you run a greater risk of having a stillborn or small baby, and if you are over thirty-five, the risks of a difficult pregnancy or of chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus increase. Timing also plays a critical role when you begin to build your sexual life around the days of the month made perfect for reproductive intercourse.

prepartum anxiety to postpartum blues, there is no doubt about it and no need to hide it: Pregnancy can make you feel downright crazy at times. In fact, under old English law, the eccentricity of an expectant mother was once thought to be so serious that her testimony was not considered reliable enough for a court of law. Relax. You aren’t crazy. You are just pregnant  or trying to get pregnant! This emotional roller-coaster ride can skew your view of the world. Get ready for confusion, ecstasy, tears, pain, panic, wonder. awe, joy, worry and a mountain of ‘excessive guilt. Rest assured that you don’t need to feel alone on this trip. Moreover, talking about your fears and finding answers to your questions are excellent ideas. No worry is ever too silly to overlook and no question is too stupid to ask.
To calm your fears, put the changes in your life into perspective, and tackle thousands of those “What if” questions swirling just below the surface of your anxiety, start turning the pages. Don’t try to read from cover to cover. Flip through sections and find the month, the issue, the symptom, the stage, or the feature that suits your needs right now. The Everything Pregnancy Book is designed to be userfriendly. Meanwhile, I’m certain you have a private list of “What if’s” already. In fact, the true extent of “what if” nightmares before, during, and after pregnancy can easily fill an encyclopedia. What if ! waited too long to try to get pregnant? What if I’m not a good mother? What if my husband’s lack of interest in babies now is a predictor of his future success as a father? What if that wine! drank harms my unborn baby? What if I catch toxoplasmosis from my cat? What if my baby isn’t normal? What if I flunk Lamaze classes? What if I don’t have enough money, patience, or love? Talking about a baby is so very important for your relationship with the man in your life. Not only do you want to make sure your image of living happily ever after with a family coincides with the picture in his mind, but also you don’t want to make the mistake of thinking a baby will cement your partnership. Having a baby to strengthen a relationship is definitely a mistake. Becoming a parent is emotionally and physically hard work. In the best of all possible worlds, both you and your partner ought to begin with your eyes open.