If you follow the birth rate statistics, it turns out that most of the children are "obtained" in the fall. For those planning to join the ranks of future parents, we have collected several popular myths about conception and asked doctors to comment on them.
"Autumn" children are stronger than others?
If "autumn" means those conceived in late summer - early fall, then yes: many researchers note that such children are generally stronger and healthier. There is nothing supernatural in this: the parents have just rested (or in the process), have gained positive emotions and vitamins, are not yet overloaded with work problems, are full of strength and optimism. A woman who becomes pregnant in August-September usually eats well - if only because there are still a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits in the markets, seasonal and inexpensive.
If pregnancy occurs in early autumn, her first trimester - the most important, when all organs and systems of the child are laid down - will take place in a relatively calm period, before the start of the acute respiratory infections and flu epidemic season. The last weeks of pregnancy, which are physically the most difficult for a woman, will coincide with spring - there is less risk of falling on a slippery sidewalk, you no longer need to wear a hundred clothes, while it is not yet so hot outside that this increases the risk of edema. Well, the first months of a child's life in this case fall on the summer, which is also good.
Does everything work out faster after the pills?
But this is the truth. The cancellation effect is triggered (doctors call it the rebound effect): while a woman is taking birth control pills (OC), her ovaries "rest", as soon as they stop, they are actively involved in work.
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Usually, the ability to conceive is restored within 3 months, and if the pills were taken for less than six months, even faster. Such short courses are still used to treat infertility, when it is caused by the fact that the egg does not mature.
- That the likelihood of conception after the abolition of contraceptives increases sharply, it is especially important to remember for those who, taking a break from taking pills, do not plan a pregnancy, - warns Irina Tokareva, head of the consultative and diagnostic department of the interdistrict perinatal center of GB N5 in Togliatti. - Therefore, all modern recommendations say that it is necessary to take a break only if you are planning a pregnancy.
Can the sex of the child be scheduled?
Yes and no. Folk methods such as giving birth to a boy to meat-eating parents and a girl to those who lean on dairy are considered by doctors to be folklore. As well as the confidence that girls are obtained in the heat, and boys in the cold, "guessing" the sex by the ratio between the mother's age and the month of conception, etc. Another way that supposedly helps to choose the sex of the child, or at least guess it before the ultrasound, is the time of conception.
- Ovulation occurs approximately in the middle of the menstrual cycle, - explains gynecologist-reproductologist Victoria Krotova, an expert of the "No surprises!" - The exact date can be found using ultrasound, special tests. If fertilization took place on the days closest to ovulation, conception of a boy is more likely, since spermatozoa - carriers of XY chromosomes (male) “live” less than carriers of XX chromosomes (female). The "further" from ovulation is the date of conception, the more likely the girl is. On average, sperm can survive in a woman's genital tract for up to 96 hours.
It turns out that there is a rational kernel in this method, but, alas, there is no scientific confirmation. Nevertheless, there is a way to determine the sex of a child before conception.
“We are talking about pre-implantation diagnostics by PCR or FISCH, the probability of which is close to 100 percent,” explains Viktoria Krotova. - It has been used in IVF programs (the so-called in vitro fertilization. - Ed.) Since 1991 to exclude the birth of sick offspring in parents who are carriers of any hereditary diseases, especially those that are transmitted only through the male or female line (to example of hemophilia). In such cases, it is necessary to determine the sex of the child for medical reasons. Sex determination at the request of a couple is not encouraged in all clinics. I often had to refuse this. For ethical reasons, we can not choose only male or only female embryos, there is a certain disadvantage in this.
Do those who took OK have twins more often?
Many people dream of twins and are willing to do something that would increase the chance of twins. For example, there is an opinion that soon after the abolition of contraceptive pills (OC), the probability of conceiving two is greater. Where the legs grow from is, in principle, understandable: after cancellation, the effect of multiple maturation of oocytes may occur and, theoretically, multiple pregnancy. In this case, we are talking about twins that are unlike each other: two eggs - two sperm - two babies. How exactly identical twins are obtained, no one knows - this is a freak of nature.
But the twins after the abolition of the pills are only a theory.
“Such a pregnancy is caused either by a genetic predisposition or by accident,” says obstetrician-gynecologist Tatyana Kaznacheeva, associate professor of the Department of Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Moscow State Medical University. - Most often, twins are born as a result of IVF.
With IVF, several fertilized eggs are transferred into the uterus at once - in the expectation that one of them will take root. Sometimes several take root.
“Out of 100 cases of twins transferred, no more than 25 are born,” says Irina Tokareva, candidate of medical sciences. - In addition, there is evidence that such twins are transmitted through the female line. It is not worth striving for this - such pregnancies are much more often accompanied by complications.
By the way
A boy becomes pregnant a little more often than a girl - about 103 boys are conceived for every 100 girls. This is inherent in nature: boys adapt less well to the external environment and are less hardy from birth than girls.
Savelyeva Alina
