Pregnancy
Perhaps the most beautiful thing crowned by any marital relationship is pregnancy to complete the family, but sometimes pregnancy may be delayed for several reasons, and we will address in this article whether it is caused by men or women.
Causes of delayed pregnancy
- The male sperm and the female egg have age; male sperm does not exceed 24 hours, and may die after intercourse, female egg no more than 72 hours, and may die after intercourse.
- Some of the acid secretions produced by the wife during foreplay, which kill sperm, or weaken it, which reduces the chances of pregnancy, and these secretions vary from one woman to another in the strength of acid, there is a precise timing of intercourse for pregnancy.
- The age of marriage in some countries has been delayed, which reduces the chances of procreation. It is medically known that the highest fertility rate among women is between the ages of 20 and 30. Women’s fertility begins to decline somewhat after 30 years.
- The social and material situation which also imposes a high rate of the marriage market on men and women, forcing the husband to accept work away from his wife, which leads to delayed pregnancy.
Causes of late procreation in men
These causes account for 40% of cases:
- The inability to secrete sperm within the vagina during the process of sexual intercourse because of illness; whether sick due to an organic disease such as diabetes or high blood pressure, or due to lack of circulation and nervousness of the male.
- Psychological condition, neurological pressure, psychological depression, and drug abuse.
- The speed of ejaculation: which does not enable the man to complete the process of intercourse and sperm exit early before reaching the normal place in the vagina of women.
- Congenital defects in the reproductive system of the man prevents him from delivering semen to the vagina such as: congenital defects in the urethra channel.
- Disadvantages of the seminal passages to the urethra, such as blockage of the vessel and the epididymis.
- Shortage in sperm production.
- Shortage of sperm compounds.
Causes of delayed reproduction in women
And accounted for 40% to 60% of cases:
- Deficiency or inability to ovulate for lack of ovulation triggers, or insufficiency of endocrine glands responsible for ovarian activity.
- Shortness of the yellow body function required to complete ovulation and fertilization.
- Shortness of menstrual cycle due to lack of estrogen.
- The presence of bags or tumors, whether benign or malignant ovarian.
- Failure of the fallopian tubes, which prevents the access of sperm to the egg to start the process of fertilization or the inability of the fallopian tubes to retrieve the fertilized egg into the uterus cavity, for reasons, including chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, puerperal fever and tuberculosis infection.
- Congenital defects such as adhesions.
- Deficiency in cervical function.
- Lack of vaginal tract or vaginal barrier, all congenital defects.
- Hypothyroidism.
- Diabetes.
- Acute malnutrition.
- Excessive weight gain.
- High secretion of milk hormone in the blood