We both have a healthy lifestyle and enjoy regular sex so why can’t I become pregnant?

Unfortunately, doing all the right things does not guarantee pregnancy. Eating well, taking exercise, monitoring your ovulation and planning when to have sex certainly helps with conception but does not automatically result in a pregnancy.

All of these help to increase your chances of conceiving but sometimes there are other factors at work which are preventing you from doing so. These include:

• Reproductive disorders such as a blocked fallopian tube or a low sperm count (oligspermia).
• Age: fertility decreases over time.
• Hormonal disorders

Basically there are factors which you have control over as regards your fertility and ones that unfortunately, you don’t.

Contrary to what people think stress does not cause infertility but being anxious or stressed can affect your monthly cycle (women) which impacts upon your chances of conceiving.

Being told to relax or ‘let nature takes it course’ is the last thing you want to hear even though it is well intentioned. If you have been having unprotected sex for a year but with no success then visit your GP.

About infertility Guide Index:

• What is infertility?
• How common is infertility?
• What causes infertility?
• How long should my partner and I try for a baby?
• Why is it more difficult to get pregnant when you are older?

• Isn’t infertility a woman’s problem?
• Do sexually transmitted diseases cause infertility?
• What is ‘unexplained infertility?’
• We both have a healthy lifestyle and enjoy regular sex so why can’t I become pregnant?
• When should we visit our GP?