Essay On Infertility

It is assumed by most that we will all be able to grow up, fall in love, get married, and then have children of our own. This is not the lifestyle that all people choose, but it is still the view accepted by the majority of society. What happens when the unthinkable occurs and a happily married couple is unable to get pregnant? This is a reality for 7.1%, or 2.8 million, of the married couples in the United States (Lenox, 1999). Today, there are many people all over the world that decide to use fertility treatments to help them conceive a child, and this often leads to the birth of twins, triplets, or even higher order multiples. There are many risk factors that are involved in this type of

“Jennifer Bradshaw’s Experience with Infertility” is a very interesting case study. Just as many children do, Jennifer had dreams and aspirations. This case study specifically speaks about Jennifer’s dream of becoming a mother. This essay will address the theoretical perspective that would best address Jennifer’s emotional battle with infertility and the treatment plan recommended for this theory. (Hutchinson, 2015)

In the overarching state of humanity, few topics are as important to the long term societal standpoint as abortion. Even more important and contested is the controversial subject of whether or not a woman will endure long term psychological effects or disorders after said abortion. This subject has been highly debated, with valid points made by both sides. It is important that we all look into these repercussions, especially since approximately 33% of women will undergo an abortion by the time they reach forty-five years old. This often challenged subject has many aspects. The main ideas that I researched where whether or not having an abortion leads to a higher risk for mental health issues, whether or not “post-abortion syndrome” is a

This study involves a married couple who after two years of trying to conceive a child became

Infertility is a big topic in the book One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash. This affects many charters in the story like the Sheriff and his wife. The sheriff and his wife are happily married but the moment that changed them forever was the night the sheriff’s wife woke up bleeding. The sheriff’s wife had a miscarriage and was told that she was infertile. This made them very distant from each other This is the same case with Amy and Billy but a different scenario. Billy is told that his sperm count is to low to have kids and is declared infertile. “Doctor Wilkins looked under the microscope… He finally took his eyeball off the microscope and said I can’t find a

More than one in ten couples struggle with infertility within their lifetime. These struggles can be extremely difficult, but modern medicine offers many options for needing assistance in caring a baby to full term. Impaired fecundity is a condition related to infertility and refers to women who have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term (CDC, 2015). Females unfortunately have to address ovulation disorders when met with infertility issues. Although many assume that infertility issues are of a female origin, males struggle with semen insufficiencies as well. Many risk factors can effect a couples difficulties with pregnancy including; age, smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight, eating disorders, vegan diet, over exercising,

Infertility can be extremely challenging for couples to overcome. It can be not only physically draining, but emotionally and mentally as well. Infertility can be easily compared to a roller coaster, with emotions going up and down from hope and optimism plummeting down to frustration and even grief after many the couple has tried for a long period of time. While for me personally, I first think of women when I think of infertility, the men play a large role as well. They are also hoping for children and the biological reason for the infertility can be from either sex. Research has also shown that infertility can make physically difficult and cause anxiety in couples, which could led to increased difficulty in conceiving (Domar & Gordon,

They state, “although the subjects born from unwanted pregnancies still manifested less favourable psychosocial adaptation at age 30 than the pair-matched controls, the differences had narrowed” (David 2006). The subjects of unwanted pregnancies had less favorable psychological adaptation, but the gap had narrowed since earlier waves. They also state, “more unwanted pregnancy women than control women were registered as unmarried or frequently divorced, or having difficulties in parenting or being unemployed” (David 2006). When comparing the women who were controls and unwanted pregnancy women, the unwanted pregnancy women had more divorces and were more often unmarried than the controls. Wave five looked at psychiatric treatment in adulthood. They state, “being born from an unwanted pregnancy was significantly related to psychiatric treatment in adulthood” (David 2006). When compared to the controls, unwanted pregnancy children experienced psychiatric treatment in adulthood more often than the

Many women choosing to have an abortion are unaware of the psychological effects it will have on them. Many are affected for years or maybe even lifetime after the procedure. Abortion can affect each woman differently, some claim that abortion has negative effects on women’s mental health. Women have abortions for different reasons within different personal, social, economic, and cultural contexts. All of these may lead to variability in women’s psychological reactions following the abortion. This paper will focus on answering the following questions:

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) marks a great step forward in medical technology, and Australia is a leader in the field. IVF is now a popular procedure for couples who are infertile or are having trouble conceiving. However, it raises ethical, moral and legal issues including the rights of an individual, property rights, the definition of human life, scientific experimentation versus a potential human life, religion, costs, and community, medical and taxpayer’s rights.

Gender stereotypes have existed since the beginning of modern man. We've all heard them before; male dominance and female weakness, a controlled male and a flustered female, aggression and passion, and many others that all basically boil down to the same thing. Emily Martin, in her essay entitled The Egg and the Sperm, takes this problem of gender stereotype to a new and much more serious level. As an anthropologist, Martin is concerned with the socio-cultural impacts on many different aspects of everyday life, including biology. In doing her research for this article, Martin was trying to uncover suspicions she had about socio-cultural gender stereotypes, and the affects they had on the diction used to describe egg and sperm

In the movie we see Miriam talking about how this crisis came about she said that the amount of miscarriages in females started to rise rapidly and soon enough no women were getting pregnant. I feel as though the director added that hint of women being of less power and not having main roles to portray the thought that feminism won’t end right away as this movie is set in 2027 and it’s something that is deeply rooted in us and needs to have light shed on it more. In a lot of ways women aren’t treated as equals to this day they are still very sexualized and women usually still only make about 80% of what men do and even women with jobs do double what men do in regards to house work.

In these last few years ART procedures (assisted reproductive technology) have increased. In 1996, 71% of the ART procedures done were an IVF (in vitro fertilization). In 2009, 70.1% of the IVF procedures were done using a fresh non-donor.

Selecting the female reproductive system to present was slightly awkward with me being a male. In addition to having to have a presentation in a public forum having to provide visual aids of the female reproductive system to my fellow classmates. I didn’t look forward to that at all. With that being said, I moved forward with my research on the pathologies of the female reproductive system. I did not take long at all to recognize some familiar terminology related to the pathological anomalies of the female reproductive system that I was familiar with. Pathological terminology such as Fibroids (tissue overgrowth) and Endometriosis (pain in the uterine lining).

Assisted Reproductive technology (Art) is a technology used to make babies in artificial way. This technology gave hope to a lot of people all over the world to have children. Statistics show that almost Three million infants have been delivered using Assisted Reproductive Technology in the last 30 years, all over the world. This procedure enables couples to achieve pregnancy, for example women or men who are infertile; also singles that want have babies, and gays and lesbian. Basically the (Art) process of intercourse is done by insemination (Like, artificial insemination) or fertilization, and this procedure is done by taking the Oocyte and fertilizing it in the laboratory (For example, in vitro