Keeping the romance alive while trying to conceive and infertility treatments can be a challenge within itself. But today is Valentine’s Day! Take today and celebrate the love that has brought you down this path. Celebrate the person that is on the journey with you. If that means no infertility treatment talk today – that is okay. If that means trying to find the passion that was around before regulating intercourse to your most optimal days for conception – do it. Or if Valentine’s Day happens to be the day of your egg retrieval or embryo transfer – know that you child was made with that much more love! Cristen from our Facebook community found that to be the truth and now celebrates today with her young son.
However you choose to make today special, we have found some resources that might help.
From Shady Grove Fertility:
- Keeping the Romance Alive While Trying to Conceive: “Sharon Covington, MSW, LCSW-C, Director of Psychological Support Services, hears the same question often from patients who are undergoing fertility treatment –’how can I keep the romance alive while undergoing treatment?’ She explains that talking openly with your partner on this subject can be crucial to a couple’s relationship.”
- Sex and Infertility Treatment: “Listen to your body,” Dr. Melissa Esposito explains. “There is nothing unsafe about having sexual intercourse while cycling, but many women who are using injectable medication for IUI or IVF may experience enlarged ovaries, which might make intercourse uncomfortable. While they’re in that pre-egg retrieval period of a treatment cycle, normal relations are perfectly fine if it’s not pain-inducing.”
- Enhancing Your Relationship During Infertility: “Most couples enter the path towards parenthood expecting that it will occur without too much problem. After all, they spend most of their lives trying not to get pregnant and assume that when they consciously start trying, pregnancy will soon be achieved. As the months or even years go by without a baby, and efforts to achieve pregnancy are increased—from intrusive testing to high technology treatments—the path turns into the emotional rollercoaster of infertility.”
Talking to Your Spouse: “Going through infertility may be the first major life crisis that a couple faces together, and it may be the time when you need each other most. Yet sometimes couples withdraw from each other at a time when they most need support because of problems communicating.”- Fertility Facts: Sex Position Doesn’t Matter: “While the goal is to have the sperm as close to the cervix as possible, in general, the sexual position you choose will not have any bearing chances of conception. There are no studies to support that any one position increase the likelihood of pregnancy.”
From RESOLVE:
- Becoming a Couple Again: “The struggle with infertility presents numerous challenges to couples. Regardless of how you resolve your infertility, it affects your relationship. Your infertility experiences may strengthen your bond as a couple or that bond may weaken or become fragile. Infertility changes us. We make many sacrifices in our parenting quest: personal, physical, emotional, professional and relationship sacrifices.”
- Low Sexual Desire and Infertility: “Women’s sexuality is a complex issue, made no simpler with the addition of infertility! In order to understand your own low sexual desire and develop a plan for managing it, let’s take a look at some information from the academic world of sex therapy.”
From Attain Fertility:
- Sex and Relationships: “After spending so many months and years trying to conceive without success, sex has lost its spontaneity. It often feels like a chore, and it is often on a schedule. How can we make it more fun and pleasurable? Is it possible to keep the passion and intimacy alive when trying to get pregnant?”
- Sex, Romance and Infertility: “Here at Attain Fertility, we understand the challenges that infertility can bring to your relationship. Know that we don’t just want to help you get pregnant – we want to help you get pregnant while maintaining a loving and fulfilling relationship with your partner.”
If you ready to schedule an appointment Shady Grove Fertility, please speak with one of our New Patient Liaisons at 877-971-7755.
