Treating oral diseases has been shown to improve fertility outcomes in both men and women.

“research has also found that if a woman has gum disease, it takes them 2 months longer to conceive. And I'm the only one who's talking about it.”

She believes she should prioritize her own life and safety over the risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth given her medical history.

“I would probably get an abortion if it was going to put me at risk just because I don't want my child to grow up without a parent I think that's a bigger hole in someone's life than deciding to have a child at the right moment”

Asking people about their parental status can be difficult because it is impossible to know who might be struggling with infertility or pregnancy loss.

“I think it can be really hard when you don't know them well or you don't know their background and it is so common right like when you meet someone for the first time you're trying to find commonalities you're trying to learn about them and one of the first questions is always like so do you have ki”

Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals during fetal development is a primary driver of the documented decline in sperm counts and quality in men.

“so that also has to do with the exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals during development typically in the womb and the sperm counts in adult men now in industrialized countries is about half what it was in the 1950s to 1970s”