Dr Natalie Crawford
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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You don't need to wait for your OBGYN to say.
And you could say, I'd like fertility testing.
And that is allowed and permitted regardless if you haven't started trying or if you have infertility.
So this idea that you can get your ovarian reserve checked, we can check your anatomy, we can check a semen analysis.
I love seeing patients like this.
Everything might be normal.
You might then go on your way and we'll decide how long you should try, talk about what you should be doing.
And based on your family goals, talk about when you need to come back or we need to advance care.
But I'll tell you this, about one third of the time when these people come to me, we will find something that changes what they're doing.
Whether it's a low sperm count or we go to a urologist or whether it's, oh, thyroid disease that now we go and we get treated or a uterine septum that thank goodness we repaired before she went on to have three miscarriages before it got diagnosed.
A uterine septum is a birth defect of the uterus.
has about an 80% association with a miscarriage, but that can be simply corrected by a pretty easy surgical procedure.
So why should we have to go through the failure again, right?
You don't have to, and that's important for people to know.
Your doctors have been notified that if you haven't gotten pregnant by one year or if you're 35 by six months,
then we definitely should do an evaluation.
But I'm really trying to pivot this to say you can ask for it early and you're not going to seem impatient and that's within your right.
And I think that data is really helpful, especially as you are getting older and getting started.
So what can you know about yourself?
Start to track your ovulation before you want to get pregnant, not just relying on
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