Your cycle starts on the first day of your period and ends on the first day of your next period.
Getting pregnant immediately after your period is unlikely, but it’s not impossible…
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Fertility indicates your ability to conceive children. A woman’s peak reproductive years are between late teens and late 20s.
Fertility will usually start to decline in your 30’s.
Factors that may contribute to infertility include age, smoking, stress, certain medical issues, obesity, alcohol and drug use.
With that said, what are some of the more clear signs that you are in fact fertile and ready to get pregnant?
Many women who cannot get pregnant or who may experience repeated miscarriage often suffer from a luteal phase defect, which simply means that the luteal phase of their cycle (the time between ovulation and their menstrual flow) is too short to develop a thick enough uterine lining to support a fertilized egg.
This can either result in an inability for the fertilized egg to implant in the first place, or an inability to thrive, thus resulting in a very early miscarriage. Some women actually miscarry every month without realizing it believing that they are simply having a regular period.
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Can I get pregnant if I have high prolactin levels?
Prolactin is a hormone that helps women to produce milk after the birth of a baby. When levels are high, ovulation is hindered; that is why many nursing mothers do not get a period while their babies are nursing at peak capacity.
Reducing estrogen levels in women and progesterone levels in men, prolactin can have a serious effect on both male and female fertility, causing a loss of ovulation in the female and a poor production of sperm in males.
Varioceles is a cluster of enlarged veins in the testes that accounts for 40% (or more) of all fertility problems – with these numbers being even higher among men suffering with secondary infertility (meaning that they have naturally fathered at least one child without intervention).
When varioceles occurs, blood that has clotted in the testes can heat the area to over 98.6 degrees, which is at least 1-2 degrees higher than they should be. This can cause serious damage (or even kill) sperm!
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How soon can you get pregnant after birth control?
Long term use of birth control pills should not have a negative impact on your fertility or on your ability to conceive.
Most women can get pregnant within the first 12 months of contraceptive discontinuation but a study found that women who used a combined estrogen and progestin birth control pills for more than three years were were more fertile than women who used them for a shorter period of time.
