iVillage logo
Search iVillage
Pregnancy
Parenting
Health
Food & Drink
Diet & Fitness
Beauty & Fashion
Relationships
Home & Garden
Work & Money
Entertainment
Horoscopes
Travel
Rebound relationships
How to make them work
Don't worry, be happy
Your reasons to be cheerful
Food inspiration
Tasty recipe ideas
Pregnancy & Baby 
  |  Fertility  |  Conception  |  Fertilised egg and how it implants
Advertisement
Topics
Childcare
Baby
Fertility
Contraception
Conception
Infertility
Adoption
Pregnancy
Community
Just For Mums
Toddler
Pregnancy galleries
Parenting
pregnancy videos
iVillage shopping

Hot stuff
Celebrity baby game
Are you an Xmas scrooge?
Baby development tracker
Pregnancy calendar
Baby name finder
Spooky Halloween ideas
Find your fertile days
Shop for your baby
Newsletters
Sign up for FREE!




 
Promotions
Baby friendly pools
Find a swimming pool to take baby with the Baby Friendly Swimming Pool directory

Fertilised egg and how it implants

by Dr Howard Lee

question
What would cause a fertilised egg not to implant? I have had three months, where I am sure I conceived, but had a negative pregnancy test. I have two children, who were both conceived the first month. Although I was not expecting to be so lucky a third time, I was positive I was pregnant for about five days, only to be disappointed by the negative test. I am a heavy smoker and wonder if this may be a factor?

answer
A fertilised ovum sometimes doesn’t implant itself into the prepared lining of the womb when:
  • The womb is not well enough prepared, maybe because one of the pregnancy hormones has not done its job efficiently enough
  • A fertilised ovum is not developing ‘normally’ and so Mother Nature rejects it at this early stage
I do understand that sometimes you can be ‘sure’ that you are pregnant by the feelings you experience – but this may not be, in fact, true. I presume that your other two children were conceived with your current partner? If this is the case, then you’ll be successful eventually, I am sure. Third babies do sometimes take time to get going, and we don’t know why.

It is certainly true, and much research has shown that, smoking can be the cause of failure to conceive. So, the answer may be – but I’m sure you don’t want me to say it – to give up. Good luck – on both counts.

Delicious     Digg     reddit     Facebook     StumbleUpon