Nutrition
A healthy and balanced diet can increase the chances of pregnancy.For this purpose, sufficient vitamins, minerals, fiber and secondary plant substances should be taken in. The diet should therefore include cereal products (especially whole grains), low-fat dairy products and plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. With fruit and vegetables, this should at best come from all color groups.
Fish also plays an important role due to its high content of omega-3 fatty acids. Other animal foods should only be eaten in moderation. A vegetarian or vegan diet is not a problem in principle, but a good supply of nutrients can be achieved by a targeted selection of foods.
Folic acid
Folic acid is not important for the pregnancy itself, but reduces the risk of malformations, such as a neural tube defect, during pregnancy. Pregnant woman, and also women who want to become pregnant, should take daily approx. 400 μg Folsäure as preparation to itself.
Healthy weight
Underweight can lead to conception problems. Especially if you are very underweight, ovulation may not occur or the cycle may vary greatly. Being overweight, on the other hand, leads less to conception problems, but increases the risk of gestational diabetes, for example. A healthy weight and a normal BMI are therefore a good basis for a pregnancy.
Luxury food
Both alcohol and nicotine are of course anything but helpful to get pregnant quickly. The consumption of alcohol should be reduced to one or two glasses per week. Smoking during pregnancy is best stopped completely, as both fertility and the child are sometimes severely affected. The partner should also take this advice to heart, the quality of the sperm can be reduced by smoking and alcohol.
Stress
A lot of stress can lead to conception problems. A balance to relaxation, like yoga or sports are very important. Negative stress and worries should, as far as possible, be left little space.
Getting pregnant with 40
In the today’s time a good out and further training play a superordinate role in the life of young adults. Things like marriage or family planning are postponed to a later date and before you know it, the woman is at an age when pregnancy can become problematic. The chance of getting pregnant tends to decrease with increasing age, according to some studies it is almost impossible to get pregnant with the body’s own eggs from about the age of 45.
Of course, there are always exceptional cases in this context. It should be clearly stated that a late pregnancy brings not only after- but also many advantages. After a woman has waited a long time to have children, in most cases she is all the more certain about what will happen to her during pregnancy and after the birth.
Many women are better able to cope with the stress of the first years of their child’s life at a higher age. However, it remains much more difficult for women over 40 to conceive a child, due to the fact that the number of eggs begins to decrease significantly at this time. In addition, due to the “age” of the eggs, chromosomal defects are much more common, resulting in an increased risk of miscarriage or the birth of a mentally and/or physically handicapped child.
The best known example of such a hereditary disease is trisomy 21 (Down syndrome). Not only can getting pregnant be difficult in older women, but further complications can also occur during the actual pregnancy. From the age of about 40 years on, accompanying symptoms such as high blood pressure and/or diabetes occur more frequently during pregnancy.
In addition, in quite a few cases, placental detachment or serious problems during the birth of the child occur. The probability of a miscarriage or premature birth is also many times higher at this age. From 40 on it is therefore in principle still possible to become pregnant, but this usually requires medical support in the form of fertility treatment or artificial insemination.
The significantly increased risk of complications and malformations must be considered thoroughly and then it must be decided individually whether one wants to take this risk. A detailed consultation with a gynaecologist should take place in any case.
