I like to party - I go out every weekend and drink a lot - does this effect my ability to get pregnant?

yes alcohol affects both men and women's fertility. Men produce less sperm and less good quality sperm when they drink a lot and women ovulate less frequently. A little bit won't do too much but if you want to get pregnant maybe cut it down or out completely. Ask your nurse for more advice as there are lots of other things that alcohol affects too

not at all, but it may mean that you aren't quite ready. Doctors recommend that you stop drinking and eat healthy before hand but they recommend that to everybody because drinking kills your liver and pregnancy can also be hard on your organs so it doesn't effect your chances of getting pregnant but it does effect your chances of keeping a healthy baby.

No its not all beer your drinking. Its all that coke your doing. Doing a lot of coke is great when your on a diet but sucks for haveing kids. Or mabey you just have some kind of metical problem. See a docter and go to an AA meeting.

It affects your ability to be a parent, that's for sure. I have a friend who got pregnant during a very wild destructive period in her life. She told me she thought her body was too poluuted to get pregnant. Well, surprise surprise, she got pregnant anyway (and had a lovely healthy girl).

Don't use alcohol to promote or prevent pregnancy. If you want kids, start taking care of yourself.

yes, alchohol will diminish his sperm count and he won't have many happy swimmers...i don't know how it is for women, but if you're really trying to get pregnant, i'd quit the drinking b/c you won't know when you're pregnant at first...what if you get pregnant and go out drinking and lose the baby? not very responsible...i think you should grow up and mature more and get over this "i love to party" stage before you consider taking on this responsibility...

yes, yes, yes, if you continue drinking excessively you risk having a baby born with birth defects. I'm not saying to stop having fun but be a bit cautious when you do it.dink wine maybe followed by some water.

for one you know that you're pregnant only after first two weeks of pregnancy and they are crucial for the fetus development and very vulnarable for effects of alcohol. you need to stop drinking when you start planning for the baby, otherwise you're acting irresponsibly and not ready to become a parent

Yes, absolutely. It can do damage during conception as the cells form and develop. You are supposed to keep your body healthy and prepare it for a normal pregnancy. Alcohol destroys cells in men too.

its understandable to want to go out and have fun but what about the drinking are you and your husband willing to give up drinking after the baby is born or are you going to dring at home as you would if you were out and if so what kind of an example is this going to set for the child as he or she is growing up?

you shouldn't drink if you want to get pregnant because even incidental exposure to alcohol cna lead to fetal alcohol syndrom and your kid will be slow and look retarded

don't worry about the partying though. women today make too much fuss about being pregnant