Female Infertility Factors

I used to believe becoming pregnant was as easy as – well, not quite falling off a log, but easy enough to worry about when I didn’t want to become pregnant.  And, yes, when everything is working fine, there is not much to it, as it was for a friend of mine who got pregnant each of the two times she had unprotected sex.  It is when this doesn’t happen you realize the complex and intricate machinery that needs to be in place for the baby-making to actually turn into babies, and this makes trouble-shooting a lot more difficult.

About a third of the cases of infertility are due to “female factors”.  (First time I heard that I had strange thoughts about what those factors could be, but it simply means that there is something in the reproductive organs of the woman that is preventing pregnancy).

The factors can roughly be sorted into six broad classes:  Ovulation disorders, PCOS, Disorders of the Uterus and Cervix, Damaged Fallopian tube, Endometriosis, and Immune attack.  Of these, PCOS is the most common factor, followed by Ovulation disorders.  And, yes, I’ll explain them. Read more…