by Dr Agilan Arjunan, Fertility Specialist, KL Fertility Centre ( Malaysia)
Mrs M walked into the clinic with her beautiful daughter Maya, aged 5 . She is a happily married woman and conceived Maya within their first 6 months of marriage. Her pregnancy was well and Maya was delivered via a caesarean delivery.
The obvious question popped up in my mind, “ How can I help you ?”
“ Well one ain’t enough and we have been trying for a second child for the past one and a half years. I just don’t understand why i am not getting pregnant. I got pregnant with Maya easily. Surely we are not suffering from infertility. But why it is not happening again ?”
She is just one out of many women who find it difficult to believe that they are struggling for a second child or what is medically known as secondary subfertility.
What leads to secondary subfertility ? Let’s find out why.
