Infertility is the inability to have a baby without medical treatment.
Both men and women can have infertility problems which may be related to age, injury to reproductive organs, certain diseases, or a combination of these factors. This pamphlet focuses on the infertility problems of women. A lack of healthy oocytes may prevent a woman from becoming pregnant or may cause her to have repeated miscarriages. Usually a couple has tried for some time to achieve a pregnancy with medical treatments. Sometimes a woman can get pregnant, but she miscarries soon afterwards.