We spend our lives taking measures to ensure we avoid getting pregnant. So, when the time comes to actually try to conceive, it can come as quite a shock to find that it’s not always as easy as our sex-education classes at school made it out to be. While it’s completely normal for it to take up to a year to fall pregnant, if it is taking longer than that it might be time to start thinking about getting some professional help.
Channel Mum’s Women’s Health and Fertility Expert, Dr Larisa Corda, has devised an online course to help you and your partner conceive, from the issues you can come across to when you might need to seek help. In this video, she discusses the options you have for fertility treatment (and no, costly IVF is not your only option).