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Mom for Gliberty's avatar

I do wonder if there are also fewer women aiming for "semi-intentional" pregnancies in recent years too as professional class trends spread to the working class and poor.

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Cathy Reisenwitz's avatar

I hope so. Anything that involves women aiming for or away from things rather than just letting stuff happen is good in my book.

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Matt Truesdail's avatar

Here's a little personal anecdote no one cares about but I'll share anyways.

When my wife and I had our first kid, I was obese, smoked cigarettes, ate like an animal, and didn't exercise. It took us 5 months to get pregnant.

When we started trying for our second, I had recently lost 70 lbs, ate a high protein, high fiber, low carb diet, had started going to the gym 3x per week, took regular walks, etc. On the first weekend where tests said she was ovulating, we had sex once (kids, ya know, they block you). She got pregnant immediately. Unfortunately it was a chemical pregnancy though. When we started trying again 3 months later, she ovulated, we had sex one time, and she was immediately pregnant. We now have a son.

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Cathy Reisenwitz's avatar

I need a whole blog post on how/why you completely positively overhauled your lifestyle AFTER having a kid! Anecdotally, I'm not surprised you found it easier to conceive. Obviously there are always exceptions and you were probably always pretty fertile. Five months isn't very long. But, on average, I also think these things make a difference.

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Matt Truesdail's avatar

It's not that profound. I was sick of being overweight and felt unattractive. I used drugs along with diet/exercise and the exercise came later when our daughter was a little older, so it was easier. The drugs made it really easy.

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Joshua Katz's avatar

If only some other large entity could fund uncomfortable research corporations won't. But that's just crazy talk.

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