Overview of Fertility Care

The usual expectation of life events includes education, career, finding a mate and then creating a family by becoming pregnant and giving birth to a perfect child.

Unfortunately, for 10% of the reproductive-aged population (greater than 6 million couples in the U.S.) those expectations will not be realized. These individuals are diagnosed with infertility and the underlying medical conditions that cause it.

Infertility represents a complex physical, spiritual and emotional crisis and affects all areas of a person’s well-being. Beginning the infertility investigation (also known as the basic or advanced “work up”) with a new patient and her partner is much like opening a mystery novel. It is most effective to begin with the simple evaluation (often conducted by the gynecology provider) and move to the more complex. Because of the myriad causes of and contributing factors to infertility, it is important to use a process of elimination, determining what the problems are not in order to better understand what they are. The causes of infertility are almost equally shared by conditions affecting the female versus the male. Often, there are combined factors that are contributing to a couple’s inability to create and sustain a healthy pregnancy. Identifying these factors, providing education and consultation to the couple and developing a plan for treatment is the role of the clinical staff of Fertility & Endocrine Associates.

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