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Every Tuesday, local experts field your questions about your kids, your health and related issues.
If you have a question, e-mail it to me.
Today, Dr. John Thorp, distinguished professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the N.C. Women's Hospital, answers a question about conception.
The question: My husband and I have been trying to conceive for six months now, but nothing. I figured I'd be pregnant by now. Nobody in our families have had problems like this before. At what point is it time to go see someone for help?
The answer: Around eight out of ten couples will have conceived after six months of unprotected intercourse and nine out of ten by one year. Where the cutpoint is to seek professional evaluation is an individual decision and turns on one's age, whether this is an attempt at a first baby and if there are underlying medical problems.
Simple things that can be done include:
Measurement of thyroid and prolactin hormones which are involved in reproduction. Issues can be easily corrected.
Timing of coitus prior to ovulation. Most urine LH kits turn positive after ovulation and waiting for a positive dipstick can delay conception.
Avoidance of lubricants, which can delay sperm transport.
In our practice, we would suggest you come in for a preconception visit so we can make sure you are ready for a health pregnancy and to decide with you on how fast to move to a more invasive assessment of subfertility. Please take a multivitamin with at least 400 mcg of folate while you continue to try.
Check out our other daily themes at TriangleMom2Mom:
MONDAY: Meet!
TUESDAY: Ask!
WEDNESDAY: Eat!
THURSDAY: Play!
FRIDAY: Out!
WEEKEND: Relax!
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her
husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers
since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After
graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around
Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She
moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play
flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when
she played it.
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Every Tuesday, local experts field your questions about your kids, your health and related issues.
If you have a question, e-mail it to me.
Today, Dr. John Thorp, distinguished professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the N.C. Women's Hospital, answers a question about conception.
The question: My husband and I have been trying to conceive for six months now, but nothing. I figured I'd be pregnant by now. Nobody in our families have had problems like this before. At what point is it time to go see someone for help?
The answer: Around eight out of ten couples will have conceived after six months of unprotected intercourse and nine out of ten by one year. Where the cutpoint is to seek professional evaluation is an individual decision and turns on one's age, whether this is an attempt at a first baby and if there are underlying medical problems.
Simple things that can be done include:
Measurement of thyroid and prolactin hormones which are involved in reproduction. Issues can be easily corrected.
Timing of coitus prior to ovulation. Most urine LH kits turn positive after ovulation and waiting for a positive dipstick can delay conception.
Avoidance of lubricants, which can delay sperm transport.
In our practice, we would suggest you come in for a preconception visit so we can make sure you are ready for a health pregnancy and to decide with you on how fast to move to a more invasive assessment of subfertility. Please take a multivitamin with at least 400 mcg of folate while you continue to try.
Check out our other daily themes at TriangleMom2Mom:
MONDAY: Meet!
TUESDAY: Ask!
WEDNESDAY: Eat!
THURSDAY: Play!
FRIDAY: Out!
WEEKEND: Relax!
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when she played it.
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