In men, fecundability (probability of conception) is maximal at
age of 24 – 25, and tends to fall after the age of 40. Although,
spermatogenesis usually continues to some extent until old age. One of our
recent pregnancies belongs to a couple involving a 76 years-old male partner. Octogenarian
fathers are by no means rare too.
General health and nutrition
Good general health is associated with fertility, but bad health
is not an absolute barrier to conception. Excessive alcohol consumption,
prolonged cigarettes smoking and drug addiction, all pose deleterious effect on
spermatogenesis and to a lesser extent on sexual ability.
Psychological factor
Anxiety, stress, tension are common features in modern life and
seem implicated in infertility in some couples. On the other hand, these
factors together with isolation, anger, depression and even grief may be
generated as a result of delay in childbearing thus establishing a vicious
cycle. Intercourse schedule by prescription from doctors may remove desirable
spontaneity in love-making. Sometimes, the knowledge that intercourse may
involve a subsequent post-coital examination may result in impotence in the
male partner.
Timing and frequency of intercourse
Ovulation occurs approximately 14 days before a woman’s menstruation
irrespective of the cycle length. A woman is most fertile around this time (the
fertile period). Only about 80% of women would menstruate following ovulation
and about 20% of women would menstruate albeit abnormally without having
ovulated. However, in a regular ovulating and menstruating woman, coitus has to
take place at least every 48 hours during this fertile period to offer the
optimum chance of conception.
For more information on infertility in both
male and female, contact the best fertility specialist in Nigeria who was
trained in the best medical schools in USA, London and Wales called Dr. Michael Ogunkoya (08033069466). He is the Medical
Director of The HopeValley Fertility Clinic in
Lekki, Lagos.
THE HOPE VALLEY FERTILITY CLINIC
Plot 31, Block 113, Gbemileke Akinsonwon Street, Opposite
Treasure Garden, 3rd or Ikate Roundabout, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos-Epe express Way,
Lagos
08033069466
08033069466
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