THE INFERTILITY MEDICAL GUIDE
INFERTILITY HELP, ADVICE & INFORMATION

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Welcome to the Infertility Medical Guide. Here you will find lots of information on infertility, its causes and how to treat it.

GENERAL FACTS ABOUT INFERTILITY

Infertility refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception.
Both women and men can be infertile.

Doctors specializing in infertility, consider a couple to be infertile if they experience any of the below:

1. the couple has not conceived after 12 months of contraceptive-free intercourse if the female is under the age of 34
2. the couple has not conceived after 6 months of contraceptive-free intercourse if the female is over the age of 35 (declining egg quality of females over the age of 35 account for this age-based discrepancy)
3. the female is incapable of carrying a pregnancy to term.

Worldwide, it is estimated that one in seven couples (approximately 14%) have problems conceiving.
This statistic is broadly the same for every country and seems to have no relevance to a country’s status.

84% of couples who have regular sexual intercourse (that is, every 2 to 3 days) and who do not use contraception will get pregnant within a year.
92% of couples who are trying to get pregnant do so within 2 years.

Infertility is fairly evenly spread across the sexes.
For instance, in the UK, in people going forward for IVF, roughly half of fertility problems with a diagnosed cause are due to problems with the man, and about half due to problems with the woman. However, about one in five cases (20%) the infertility has no clear diagnosed cause.

The great news though is that being infertile no longer means having to go through life without children. Many infertility problems can be cured thanks to the wonders of modern science.

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