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IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding infertility

Exploring the odds of getting pregnant

Looking at infertility causes

Realizing why getting pregnant can be hard today

Adding up the costs of infertility

If you’re reading this book, the odds are good that you want to have a baby. You may actually have been trying to have a baby for a while without success, and maybe you’re becoming frustrated, annoyed, and a little scared — are you ever going to have the family you’ve dreamed of?

We want to help make this process easier for you — less stressful and more successful. In this chapter, we tell you the official definition of infertility (it may surprise you!), give you statistics on infertility today, show you how to shake your family tree for genetic problems, and talk about the cost of infertility — the emotional cost as well as the monetary cost. Where possible, the authors have relied upon the principles of evidence based medicine and The American Society for Reproductive Medicine guidelines. The authors have also used their extensive clinical experience to bring some practical advice. In the end, there is no one way to address a person’s fertility issues. Furthermore, things change rapidly, so an initial game plan may need modification as the process develops.