Kate Middleton Fertility

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i thought diana was pretty open about having to go through this.

Having to go through what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought diana was pretty open about having to go through this.

Diana was tested for virginity, not fertility. And she was barely 19 when she was married so she had tons of time to get knocked up. William and Kate had already been living together for a while. I doubt she was subjected to any sort of invasive exam.

The testing for virginity is a rumor, not a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought diana was pretty open about having to go through this.

Having to go through what?

She had to have her virginity verified by a doctor before marrying Prince Charles. She was 19, he was 32. I'm sure he wasn't a virgin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i thought diana was pretty open about having to go through this.

Diana was tested for virginity, not fertility. And she was barely 19 when she was married so she had tons of time to get knocked up. William and Kate had already been living together for a while. I doubt she was subjected to any sort of invasive exam.

The testing for virginity is a rumor, not a fact.

I'm sure you're probably right. However, by choosing a very young bride, it certainly increased the likelihood that she was a virgin which was the point. It obviously wasn't for love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get the impression that the Europeans don't use quite as many toxic pesticides on their foods or quite as many toxic personal care products on their bodies as Americans. Their governmental standards are much stricter than ours.

I truly believe the epidemic of infertility here in the U.S. is due to decades of toxic crap building up in everyone's systems. My DH is from another country (I'm American) and when we were having trouble, I did testing and he did SA. His SA numbers blew the analyst away, and she asked sight unseen if he was from another country. Apparently men in this country used to have numbers like his but it's been a couple generations since it was the norm, and standards for SA keep going down.

Of course, as the American, it ended up being me who had the issues, and it took a fair amount of time and money to overcome them (3 years and IUI for #1). I eliminated all perfumes, shampoos, body washes, etc, and use things like coconut oil and castille soap only now. And I switched to more local food from farmers whom I could ask face-to-face how they'd treated their food. Put a RO filter on the faucet for drinking water. For baby #2 it took exactly 3 months of trying. Clearly this is anecdotal, but I think it is a common enough experience and the environment here is so, so trashed, that I can't imagine it doesn't make an impact.

Not many low income, welfare recipients have problems conceiving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get the impression that the Europeans don't use quite as many toxic pesticides on their foods or quite as many toxic personal care products on their bodies as Americans. Their governmental standards are much stricter than ours.

I truly believe the epidemic of infertility here in the U.S. is due to decades of toxic crap building up in everyone's systems. My DH is from another country (I'm American) and when we were having trouble, I did testing and he did SA. His SA numbers blew the analyst away, and she asked sight unseen if he was from another country. Apparently men in this country used to have numbers like his but it's been a couple generations since it was the norm, and standards for SA keep going down.

Of course, as the American, it ended up being me who had the issues, and it took a fair amount of time and money to overcome them (3 years and IUI for #1). I eliminated all perfumes, shampoos, body washes, etc, and use things like coconut oil and castille soap only now. And I switched to more local food from farmers whom I could ask face-to-face how they'd treated their food. Put a RO filter on the faucet for drinking water. For baby #2 it took exactly 3 months of trying. Clearly this is anecdotal, but I think it is a common enough experience and the environment here is so, so trashed, that I can't imagine it doesn't make an impact.

I'm probably older than you. I'm 49 with an 11 and 7 yo who was born and raised in the US. Both children were conceived naturally,and it took one time to become pregnant. The first one was an "accident," and I had already missed my period by a week by the time she was conceived.

I agree that we eat like crap in the US, and we do rely on too many chemicals. (I'm first gen, btw.) But I don't think we can make a blanket generalization.