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If you and your partner are having difficulty trying to conceive, your health care provider will refer you to a gynecologist who can offer counseling for couples struggling with their feelings about their infertility, diagnostic tests to determine what the problem is as well as possible treatments to to help conceiving become a success. 

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What Is Infertility?

Most experts define infertility as not being able to get pregnant after at least one year of trying. Women who are able to get pregnant but then have repeat miscarriages are also said to be infertile.

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What Causes Infertility?
 
Pregnancy is the result of a complex chain of events. In order to get pregnant:
  • A woman must release an egg from one of her ovaries (ovulation).
  • The egg must go through a fallopian tube toward the uterus (womb).
  • A man's sperm must fertilize the egg along the way.
  • The fertilized egg must attach to the inside of the uterus (implantation).

Infertility can result from problems that interfere with any of these steps.

Infertility in men is most often caused by problems making sperm (producing too few sperm or none at all) or problems with the sperm's ability to reach the egg and fertilize it (abnormal sperm shape or structure prevent it from moving correctly.)

Problems with ovulation account for most cases of infertility in women. However, other causes of infertility in women may include blocked fallopian tubes, physical problems with the uterus or uterine fibroids.

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What Are The Treatment Options For Infertility?
 
If you and your partner are having difficulty becoming pregnant, tests and screening will likely be able to determine why. The treatment options your doctor will recommend range from mild to more intensive forms of intervention.

If needed, surgery can repair damage to a woman's ovaries, fallopian tubes, or uterus.

Sometimes men's infertility problems can be corrected by hormone therapy.

If drugs or surgery are not successful, a couple may consider various Assisted Reproductive Technology (term for a variety of medical procedures used to bring eggs and sperm together without sexual intercourse) such as (Click on the links below to find out more information):

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