Your eggs are drying up! That distasteful joke has a way of scaring every single girl over the age of 25. It is that tingly feeling in the back of your neck telling you that you are ignoring something important while your mind tells you will be fine. That right now while working 50+ hour weeks, skipping lunch, exercise, and sleep you can barely take care of yourself much less be ready to care for a helpless child.
In todays society single men are choosing to enjoy their youth. Postponing the responsibilities of marriage and the pressure of maintaining a family. Women are delaying marriage to build their carriers; dating around, shopping for the lie Hollywood has sold us of a "perfect mate." The rate of couples with fertility troubles has skyrocketed do to several things such as the toxins, pesticides and hormones in our diet; because they try to conceive at a later than ideal age, and because their ovulation cycle has been disrupted due body's long dependance on birth control. Todays society is less focused on creating a healthy family and more no enjoying the endless pleasures around us.
I had my life figured out by the time I was 13. I was going to marry a guy who would live to love me right out of college and have my first child at the young healthy age of 24 like my mother. When I turned 24 and was still single without prospects, reality hit me hard and I even fell into a little depression. But the Lord used that to make me stronger in my faith and to have a clearer view of where my heart and thus treasures were. That my hope and future should not be fixed to the things of this earth that wither and die, but to God's eternal love!
It is a scientific fact that your eggs are healthiest that they are going to be in your 20s, and that your risk of pregnancy complications goes up as you age and after 35. The quality of your eggs goes down exponentially every year. You can get various hormone tests—and they can look fine at 39, and two months later they can not be fine.
If you are trying to conceive or thinking about trying in the next 6 months to a year, then there are several things that you should think about doing before then. Half of all pregnancies are unplanned, but for all of you who like to be a bit more prepared in the next 25 blogs I will detail the things that my husband and I will be doing before conceiving.
I like to compare pregnancy to an olympic event, in that you want to train for it and you want to make sure you’re in good physical, emotional and even spiritual condition before you get pregnant. This is a great time for women who struggle with being overweight to say, ‘You know what—I’m going to get an aggressive nutrition plan and get into shape for this pregnancy.’' This is also a good time to refresh or work on the little kinks that you might have in your marriage so that your child may be conceived in a stable loving environment.
I like to compare pregnancy to an olympic event, in that you want to train for it and you want to make sure you’re in good physical, emotional and even spiritual condition before you get pregnant. This is a great time for women who struggle with being overweight to say, ‘You know what—I’m going to get an aggressive nutrition plan and get into shape for this pregnancy.’' This is also a good time to refresh or work on the little kinks that you might have in your marriage so that your child may be conceived in a stable loving environment.
Though out the next few months I will be blogging on the 22 things that will help prepare you to conceive.
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