In 1994, the live birth rate in the United States was 3,952,767, or 15.2/1,000 women. The unintended pregnancy rate during the same year was 48 percent of all pregnancies. Of the unintended pregnancies, 47 percent resulted in abortion, 40 percent in live births and 13 percent in miscarriages. The impaired ability to get pregnant was 10.2 percent in 1994, as reported by the National Center for Health Statistics. Understanding Your Body: The Female Reproductive System The female reproductive system consists of those organs that allow for procreation. These include the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus and vagina. They create an environment suitable for the delivery of sperm to a mature egg, they allow fertilization to occur, and they provide nutrition for the growing fetus. The reproductive system is like a symphony. It has different sections -- the strings, percussion and horns. Each section must begin to play right on cue for a contada to result. Every part of the reproductive system must be ready for fertility/conception to occur. As with a symphony, in the reproductive system, timing is everything. If ovulation and the physiological processes that influence conception are functioning properly, the information and tools offered in this section will help you in your journey to pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry  Many couples who have successfully become parents find themselves unable to have another baby. The experience of "secondary infertility" is described by many of those that are going through it as feeling like they don't "fit" -- in