What are the preparations for male pregnancy?

Having a healthy baby is very important for a family, but pregnancy is not a woman's job alone. It requires the joint efforts of both husband and wife. Therefore, it is best to make adequate preparations before pregnancy. Especially for male friends, due to bad living habits such as long-term smoking and staying up late, if they are not well prepared, the impact of pregnancy on the fetus is also very large. Let's take a look at what preparations men should make for pregnancy.

What are the preparations for male pregnancy?

1. Maintain an optimistic attitude: Emotional factors have a significant impact on male sexual function. After intervention on depressed people, it was found that their fertility rate increased from 29.9% to 45.5%. Therefore, maintaining a good mood, establishing an optimistic attitude, abandoning stress, and living a relaxed life are very helpful for men to improve their fertility.

2. Stay away from bad living habits and environmental factors: Men should avoid contact with decoration materials, heavy metals and other radioactive and harmful substances to the body. At the same time, they should avoid smoking, drinking, staying up late and other living habits, which can improve the quality of male sperm.

3. Strengthen physical exercise: The basis for normal male functions is a strong physique. Appropriate physical exercise can strengthen the body, enhance immunity, and relax fatigue and anxiety during exercise.

4. Increase nutrients: Sperm production is closely related to the nutritional level of diet. To maintain a balanced diet, you can often eat foods such as sea cucumbers, sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts, lettuce, etc.

Don'ts:

1. Drinking: The sperm density of men with alcoholism will decrease by 56.6%. Drinking a lot of alcohol can lead to a decrease in testosterone synthesis in men and impair sperm production.

2. Smoking: Nicotine, carbon monoxide, cadmium, lead and other toxic substances in smoke can easily damage spermatogenic cells in the testicles. Studies have shown that if you smoke 20 cigarettes a day, the sperm survival rate is less than 50%. According to surveys, the number of cigarettes a man smokes every day is proportional to the prenatal mortality rate and the birth rate of congenital malformations. The rate of congenital malformations in children of non-smoking fathers is 0.8%; the rate is 1.4% for fathers who smoke 1 to 10 cigarettes a day; the rate is 2.1% for fathers who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day.

3. Long-term sitting, sitting in a bath, sauna or wearing tight pants: These behaviors can affect the heat dissipation function of the testicles and blood circulation, increase the local temperature of the testicles, and thus affect the production of sperm. Soaking in warm water at 43℃-44℃ for 20 minutes for 3 consecutive days will cause sperm density to decrease for 3 weeks.

4. Long-term electromagnetic radiation: Being too close to the TV or using a computer for a long time will cause the radiation to affect men’s spermatogenesis.

5. Eating celery, soy products, etc.: Foreign studies have found that after young men eat a certain amount of celery for several consecutive days, the amount of sperm decreases significantly, and it will gradually return to normal after 4 months of stopping celery. In addition, eating soy products every day will also significantly reduce the number of sperm in men.

6. Edible cottonseed oil: Taking cottonseed oil can cause cell damage, testicular interstitial fibrosis, blood vessel thickening and testicular autoimmune diseases.

7. Excessive cycling or horse riding: Excessive cycling or horse riding can cause chronic fatigue and congestion to the prostate and other accessory glands, affecting their functions and aggravating chronic inflammation.

The above is an introduction to what preparations men need to make for pregnancy. After understanding it, we know that men must adjust their living habits before preparing for pregnancy, maintain a happy mood and do not stay up late often. They should also pay attention to nutritional balance in their diet. This will be more beneficial to the baby's health after pregnancy. In addition, female friends should also adjust their bad living habits.