Dealing with infertility

It is normal that whenever there’s an alter call for people who want children, it's always the married women that you find coming out

I know of a couple that were married for 12years and they didn't have a child. The woman did everything, both religiously and medically, and she was confirmed ok. It didn't occur to the husband to go have himself checked out. It didn’t occur to anyone around him to tell him that it takes TWO fertile people and not just one fertile woman to make a baby.

And that brings me to the point of this post.

Too often, some people think that because a man has erection and ejaculates, it automatically means he is fertile.

Listen guys,
Having and sustaining erection, and being able to ejaculate does NOT translate to being fertile. Many men “shoot blanks”.

Infertility can result from symptomless infections, and STIs. These infections can stay in your body for long without external symptoms, but might render your sperm completely useless and unable to fertilize eggs.

There are also other medical reasons that might cause infertility in men.

Many Nigerian women have suffered for years due to the infertility of their husbands.

In Nigeria, if a couple is not able to have a child, it’s always the woman that needs to be checked out. And this has caused many couples to remain childless for too long, as a result of fertility issues of the men.

It is common sense to know that since it takes two humans to make a child, if there is difficulty in making a child, it is the two people, or all the parties involved that need to be checked out.

Till this very day, in most Nigerian Churches, it is still mainly only women that respond to alter calls for those looking for children.
I grew up to find this sickening and appalling.

Especially since various research statistics reveal that infertility issues affect men AS MUCH as it affects women. How then is it that until recently, only women were suspected to be the ones with the problem?

Dear Nigerians,

If a couple find it difficult to have a child, it is NOT NECESSARILY the woman’s fault. It can as well be the man having some fertility issues.

Nigerian pastors should always ask the husbands of those women who respond to alter calls to come out with their wives. Men need prayers to have children as much as women do.

Doctors and nurses who treat fertility issues should always insist or recommend that the husbands or partners of the female patients come have themselves checked out too. In some countries, fertility clinic are reluctant to attend to just one person without his or her partner. You only begin to single out one person for treatment AFTER the diagnosis have been made, and you discover the other person is fine.

This is 2018, there is little or no excuse for ignorance induced problems