Infertility And The Struggle To Get Pregnant

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insemination, and maybe even a surrogate mother in order to get pregnant. I am interested in this because I am going to become a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurse and have previously spent many hours shadowing and volunteering in the NICU at my local hospital. A NICU nurse works with the babies who have special needs at birth. In a lot of In Vitro fertilization cases, many of the babies are multiples (twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, etc.) and a lot of them end up in the NICU because they are typically born earlier and smaller than the average baby. This is why I am highly interested in these topics. Before conducting research, I had several questions including, what makes someone sterile? What are reasons why some women can't get pregnant? Are there a lot of different reasons why people can't get pregnant? Along with these questions, I was also curious about the solutions about the problem. What are other options of trying to get pregnant? How do each of them work? I ...

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after having your first child, and both are equally common. One out of five couples who are of reproductive age are infertile in the United States.
A man being or becoming sterile is one of the top contenders in the infertility game. Being sterile means that your sperm count is low or the sperm are of poor quality. With this, it is extremely hard or impossible for couples to get pregnant with a sterile partner. If a man has a low sperm count, it makes it really hard for them to reach the egg, and in a healthy man it is hard enough. When a healthy man releases sperm, there are millions of sperm released, but only a few are strong enough to potentially touch and fertilize the egg. When ...

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