infertility

Actually YES!! Birth control pills have had a place in fertility treatment for years. In order to understand the concept, you should know a little bit about how birth control pills work. Most all birth control pills on the market are composed of ovulation suppressing medications. They, for all intents and purposes, shut down the ovaries for a period of time. Of course, once the medication is stopped, the ovaries resume their work and push out an egg (sometimes two!) after a period of time. Sometimes the active ingredients in the birth control pills will stay in a woman’s system for a little longer and keep ovulation from occuring the month following the last full cycle, but this is actually a bit rare. Instead, once the suppression is stopped, the ovaries get so excited they tend to produce multiple eggs. (Picture is becoming clearer, huh?) Reproductive endocrinolgists (and some ob/gyn’s) will prescribe a month’s worth of birth control pills to rest the ovaries and then prescribe ovulation induction drugs to overstimulate ovaries. Thus, the ovaries are well rested and ready to pop out some nice, goodlooking eggs for those handsome little sperm to swim on up to and introduce themselves! So… even though it may seem like taking birth control pills for a month is counter-productive to getting pregnant, it may be just what your body needs!

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