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Depending on which reference source one reads, women with endometriosis have a fertility rate of 50 to 65 percent, whereas the general population of women has a fertility rate of 88 percent. Among women with endometriosis, it is believed that 30 to 50 percent are infertile, although the true incidence of infertility is unknown, For that matter, no one knows the true incidence of infertility in the general population.

The paradox of infertility in endometriosis is that most of the standard medical treatments for the disease are contraceptive. Endometriosis is essentially an estrogen-dependent disease; the drugs used to treat it deplete the body of estrogen and therefore shrink the endometriomata. But pregnancy also is estrogen dependent. So it’s unlikely that you will become pregnant while you are receiving treatment, and when you go off the drugs in an effort to have a baby, your endometriosis will probably get worse again.

To add to the irony, drugs that increase the chance of conception also tend to exacerbate endometriosis. They have other serious side effects as well, so if you feel as though you are between a rock and a hard place, you are.

What’s more, if endometriosis does indeed cause infertility, then eradication of the disease should render a woman fertile. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way. Treatment of mild to moderate disease does not necessarily improve the rate of fertility over doing nothing. You may become pregnant after treatment but according to statistics, the general incidence does not increase. Women who undergo various treatments for endometriosis, and who also are being evaluated for fertility, have variable outcomes in the success of the treatment on fertility. This suggests that endometriosis affects individual women’s ability to become pregnant in different ways.

If the disease is caused by an anatomical abnormality, surgery to correct it may or may not be effective-depending on the skill of your surgeon and whether you develop serious adhesions. If you have the predisposition to endometriosis since you were in your mother’s uterus, chances are the longer you wait, the less likely you are to get pregnant.

If you decide to have surgery (the less invasive the procedure, the greater the chance of preserving whatever fertility you have), timing becomes even trickier. Most physicians believe that there is a postoperative “window of opportunity” that lasts about six to nine months. This is when you luck is at its peak. After about nine months of menstrual periods after surgery, if there are still some endometriomata left in your abdomen, the buildup of scar tissue, cysts, and adhesions will once again impair fertility.

One extremely frustrating thing about endometriosis and infertility is that the disease appears to increase the chance of natural abortion (miscarriage). So there are women who can become pregnant but cannot carry to term. Surgery and medication may help correct this problem, but so far no scientific data exists.

Karol Cardinson is a Health specialist with over 20 years in Diet and Nutritions Research as well as a former Infertility sufferer and can help you with getting pregnant sooner and naturally. Find out how to reverse Female and Male Infertility naturally while improving the quality of your life! For more information go to Infertility Solutions Online

Have you had a baby lately? Feeling great about the new baby but not so happy to find that your stomach looks like an elephants trunk? Covered in stretch marks.

Getting rid of stretch marks is one of the biggest concerns of women who have recently had a baby. Not all new mums have stretch marks to contend with, but as those who do have them will tell you, removing stretch marks is one of their major concerns. But it’s estimated that over 75% of new mums have stretch marks to show off.

There’s a number of reasons why you can get stretch marks, and birth is one of them. Even young girls can get stretch marks during puberty.

And it even seems to be genetic, as there is an increased risk of stretch marks if your mother had them.

Do you have any options for removing stretch marks?

There is a relatively wide range of options, but none are guaranteed. Some mothers do nothing and hope they’ll go away, some just use a simple moisturizer and hope.

And there is the risky and expensive options like cosmetic surgery like laser treatments.

And there are creams that are available that are designed specifically to reduce the signs of stretchmarks, though again have mixed results.

Or you could try micro dermabrasion if you’re brave.

And then there is the safer more natural route. A little more work but less risky and more natural involving such things as dietary changes and herbal products. Not guaranteed, nothing is, but it will offer you a simpler safer route that may take a little more work.

For many women it comes as a revelation that it is perfectly possible to combat stretch marks naturally with a good degree of success, and they wish to take a more natural approach rather than tackle the problem with risky and often expensive procedures that may not produce the result you want, and in fact may well produce a result you definitely don’t want.

So if the cost and/or the risks associated with some methods of removing stretch marks scares you there are other, cheaper and less risky, more natural options for you to choose.

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You’ve got a new baby and you just love it. It’s all joy, except for one thing. Is parenthood quite as good as you expected?

Sometimes the answer to that question is yes, and sometimes no. There can be quite a number of reasons why a new parent could feel that having a baby in the house isn’t exactly the best thing that ever happened to them, but probably right at the top of the list is this.

The new baby just won’t sleep at night. The whole house can be kept awake by the crying and the restlessness.

This can be a particularly stressful problem to deal with. Everyone needs their sleep. You do, your entire family does.

The entire family can be stressed out and tired, and this affects the baby too.

Perhaps you’re not quite as good a mom as you had hoped to be because you’re always so tired. Maybe your sex life is falling apart, perhaps it’s died completely and this is causing stress in your relationship.

Your relationship needs to be strong right now but you’re both so tired that it isn’t.

And it’s not just you and your partner that suffer when a baby isn’t sleeping well. If you’ve got other children in the house they may well be suffering too. Younger children sleep through pretty much everything, but if you have a teenager around who, say, is at the stage of schooling where they need to do well, work hard and be alert they too may be suffering from a lack of sleep caused by a new baby that won’t sleep.

In short, having a new baby that doesn’t sleep at night is a problem that you need to tackle. You just can’t let it go on and on, firstly because of the damage it can do to family relationships, and secondly because your baby too needs to sleep well at night, apart from feeding, and your baby will suffer if he or she can’t sleep.

So is there a solution to a baby that won’t sleep? Are you doomed to weeks, months or years of no sleep?

The good news is that there are some simple home remedies to get baby to sleep better, often easy to implement and inexpensive. There are solutions.

Of course nothing is guaranteed when it comes to getting baby to sleep, but starting with simple small steps will often do the trick. In only a relatively small percentage of cases is professional intervention necessary. And there are some medical conditions that can cause inability to sleep well, so make a visit to the doctor.

So remember it isn’t a life sentence if you’re finding that your baby won’t sleep at night. You do need to be proactive and tackle the problem, or else your family and your relationships may suffer, but there is a range of simple home remedies that may well sort the problem out for you and get baby sleeping at night.

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