Why do people have difficulty conceiving?
There are MANY reasons. There could be male factor reasons – low sperm count, poor sperm motility (they don’t swim well), badly formed sperm, etc. There could also be a lot of factors on the woman’s side. She could have PCOS, which means hormone problems – she may not be ovulating, and/or her hormones may not be rising and falling as they should to support a possible fertilized egg’s implanting in the uterine lining. She could have a short luteal phase, which means there isn’t enough time for the fertilized egg to implant after ovulation and before a period would come. She may have egg quality issues. While it’s true that the odds of having some to a lot of issues conceiving go up the older a woman gets, infertility is NOT NOT NOT all about “women all wait until they’re 40 and then wonder why they can’t get pregnant”. Yes, that can happen, but fertility issues can absolutely happen in younger women as well, and 40-ish women sometimes get pregnant quickly with no problem. There are a lo
