2. Healthy couples in a healthy marriage relationship only have a 25% chance each month of conceiving.
As a side note, this can be enhanced. Please don't take this as medical advice or being scientifically proven, but a man
may be able to improve the possibility of his wife falling pregnant by these two simple, low-tech means:
- * Have relations every other day, not every day. 48 hours gives the time and wherewithal for more sperm to be produced. Every day, or oftener, and you're reducing your own sperm count.
- * Take liberal doses of Robitussin (guafenesin). This increases the amount of mucus (of all types) that your body produces. But it will give you the runs, for the same reason. Don't get too far from a bathroom. (Small price to pay, to fulfill Our Lord's command to "be fruitful and multiply", as well as to bring into being souls for the eternal glory of God. And I can well imagine any woman who has ever been pregnant, face-palming over a man's lament that "quality control on the front end" can give him the s**ts for a couple of days.)
There was some question as to our fertility. I did both things, and presto, nine months later, bouncing baby boy!
(The Robitussin-for-mucus could work for the woman too, but I wasn't able to sell my wife on that proposition. She thought I was half-crazy
)