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title: "Solutions for people who are looking to become pregnant and have a low ovarian reserve"
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# Solutions for people who are looking to become pregnant and have a low ovarian reserve

Realizing that dream of forming a family is an objective which is reached by going down a path riddled with numerous factors all of which are different. Our habits, genetic predisposition, diet, stress, and many other variables can be of influence at the time of looking **to become pregnant**, but one of the most important factors is the biological one. For this reason, although it may seem complicated a priori, people with a **low ovarian reserve** can also become pregnant.

Compared to males who generate spermatozoids every 90 days, women are born with a limited number of ovules. Therefore, to sum up, the ovarian reserve is the number of ovules which a woman has. This ovarian reserve decreases as time passes in quantitative as well as qualitative terms, especially as we have previously mentioned in this article, [beyond 35 years](https://urvistahermosa.com/en/blog_post/vitrify-the-ovules/) of age. However, there can also be fundamental problems which produce a shortage, irrespective of the amount of time which actually passes.

Although age is the determining factor regarding a low reserve of ovaries, the quantity and quality of the oocytes can also be determined by other causes. The only way of knowing if a person’s **ovarian reserve** is low is by doing a medical test, as there are no physical symptoms, apart from the time spent trying naturally but unsuccessfully to become pregnant.

## Pregnancy with low ovarian reserve

In this scenario, the following question arises. **Is it possible to achieve a pregnancy in people with low ovarian reserve?** The answer is clear: yes. Although obviously there may be less options, this does not imply that a low ovarian reserve means infertility. At least not in relative terms: fewer options, yes, impossibility to achieve a pregnancy, no.

This is what a [study published in October 2017](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2656811?JamaNetworkReader=True) by a group of doctors and specialists in fertility from the USA demonstrated, in which 800 women of ῞advanced reproductive age῝ ( the average was over 33 years of age ) and the conclusion was that there was no significant difference among the options to achieving a pregnancy.

The main way to gain assurance before the arrival of a poor ovarian reserve is **vitrification**. Freezing the ovules during the period in which the ovocitary quality is at an optimum for reproduction and storing them in order to give them use at a more advanced age when the decision is made to form a family.

Of course, a low ovarian reserve does not mean that other assisted reproductive treatments cannot be undertaken additionally. In vitro fertilization can be a great solution, meaning it’s not necessary to give up on that dream of forming a family even though time may have passed or biologically it may seem difficult.