Female Fertility/Infertility
Female fertility is a woman's capability to conceive and have children through normal, natural sexual activity. Estimates are that 85 percent of women under the age of 30 become pregnant within one year of trying. Fertility is a normal state.
Female infertility is the failure to conceive after trying to get pregnant for one full year. Female infertility stems from a number of causes-some genetic, some acquired. Among the most common are
- Abnormally low production or faulty regulation of the reproductive hormones;
- Damage to the fallopian tubes from infection, surgery, previous pregnancy, or a genetic condition;
- Cervical stenosis, a narrowing or blockage of the cervix;
- Polyps or cysts in the uterus;
- Adhesions (scar tissue) in any of the reproductive organs from disease and infection, surgery, or a genetic condition;
- Endometriosis, the growth of the tissue that normally lines the uterus also growing elsewhere in the body; and
- Stress and an unhealthy lifestyle.
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