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Infertility is defined as a failure to get pregnant after one year of unprotected intercourse. About 40% of infertility cases are due to a female factor and 40% to a male one. The remaining 20% are the result of a combination of male and female factors, or are of unknown causes. If you have been trying to conceive a child for one year without success, a visit to your physician for an infertility work-up and evaluation is very important. There are numerous potential causes of infertility and many can be treated with proper diagnosis.

Following your evaluations, the doctor may prescribe treatment ranging from simple education and counseling to hormonal treatments, ovulation induction and Intrauterine insemination to more advanced and expensive technologies like in vitro fertilization, ICSI to surrogacy, egg/sperm donation and even embryo donation, which are usually only tried after more basic treatments have failed.

Depending on the diagnosis, lifestyle changes such as quitting smoking (wise for those considering pregnancy and parenthood anyway, due to increased risks of birth defects and other complications for unborn children of smokers and asthma and other health problems for young children exposed to second-hand smoke), gaining or losing weight, and reducing exposure to stress, radiation, or environmental pollutants may also be encouraged.

Infertility can be one of the most difficult and heartbreaking challenges a couple can face, but proper diagnosis and treatment of the causes of infertility is an important step to a happy ending.