Hello everyone, today i want to remove the myth from the facts on the topic of pregnancy. A lot of us have some knowledge about pregnancy that are false and remember that not all knowledge are correct? You can know something about a particular subject but what you know the right things you should. When it comes to pregnancy, there are a lot of things I will be sharing with you that you did not know about in the past.
Do you know a woman can be pregnant and not know that she is? This is quite rare but it happens. I have a aunt who was pregnant for the first six months of her third pregnancy and didn't know she was pregnant. It is possible for a woman to be 20 weeks gone or a little more and not know but then women can be pregnant and not know until they deliver and this happens to about 1 in 2000 women.
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There are two categories of women, the ones that bleed when they are pregnant and the ones that do not bleed but we cannot use bleeding as a yardstick as there are some women that do not have regular period due to conditions such as PCOS. Women who just put to bed also have irregular bleeding and these women might not know when they are pregnant. While a lot of people look for missing of period as a sign of being pregnant a lot of people do not see their periods. A woman can be pregnant and bleed but not having a period because any bleeding during pregnancy is not period.
Cryptic pregnancy is a real pregnancy and it is so because the woman is unaware of the pregnancy until they go to a hospital. Cryptic pregnancy should not be mistaken for fake pregnancy which happens when a woman is so desperate for a child she starts to see every sign as being pregnant. A lot of medical practitioners take advantage of the vulnerability of these women, and scam them which is very painful.
Now that I have touched on fake pregnancy and that a lot of women are victims of people who want to take advantage of them wanting to have a child, it is important that I state that having a baby is determined by the male and female gamate. Also the quality of sperm can have effect on the pregnancy and the conditions that women have during pregnancy. The quality of pregnancy depends on the quality of sperm from the man.
No doubt, there is an increase in infertility in our world today and this is due to a lot of things including our way of life, what we eat, and even technology. A lot of people even blame infertility to body sprays and roll-on but this things aren't black and white as they look. There are a lot of women who use perfumes and have a lot of children and there are a lot that do not have children. This analogy of perfume and infertility can be associated to endocrine disruptors which are chemical compounds that disrupts the normal functioning of the endocrine system which also control reproduction.
Now one final thing before I close the curtain; You must have heard people say that Contraceptive usage can lead to infertility but the topic of contraceptive and pregnancy is very dicey and people need to understand what they are up for and what type of contraceptive they want to use. Some people will assume they are using a contraceptive for 3 months only for them to try to have children but not had one for about 3 years because they didn't know about what they use.
Reference
https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article-abstract/29/11/2402/2427829
https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/women-s-health-issues
https://www.marchofdimes.org/find-support/topics/pregnancy/bleeding
https://www.pregnancybirthbaby.org.au/sperm-health
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3946620/
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/symptoms/vaginal-bleeding-in-pregnancy
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