| About seven and a half million women in this country | | | | Statistics show that childless women aged from |
| between the conceiving ages of fifteen to forty-four | | | | thirty-five to thirty-nine, 15.2% of them underwent |
| encounter problems related to bearing a child. Aside | | | | infertility treatments. Out of those between thirty |
| from that, out of all women from fifteen to | | | | and thirty-four years old, 17.3% had infertility |
| forty-four years of age, 11.8% of them are | | | | treatment as well. And those from fifteen and |
| acknowledged to have impaired fecundity. Impaired | | | | twenty-nine of age, 2.9% of them also had infertility |
| fecundity is defined as the condition where there are | | | | treatment. In 2002, of women between fifteen and |
| two issues connected to pregnancy which are: one is | | | | forty-four years old, 11.9% or about 7.3 million had |
| actually getting pregnant and the other is carrying on | | | | taken some type of infertility service. Of childless |
| the pregnancy. There are also cases where women | | | | couples 6.1% of them sought professional help while |
| who got pregnant were diagnosed with polycystic | | | | 4.8% of them took infertility diagnostic tests and 5.5 |
| ovarian syndrome or PCOS. | | | | 5 of them had sought help to prevent miscarriage |
| The most possible reason for infertility in females is | | | | and lastly, 3.8% of them have been recommended |
| age. It is a medical fact that as a woman gets older, | | | | to take ovulation drugs. For women, 1.1% of them |
| she produces fewer eggs than the previous year, | | | | have had artificial insemination administered to them. |
| making it less easy for her to get pregnant. For | | | | Older women will have a lesser chance of success |
| women between fifteen and twenty-nine, only 11% | | | | even with the most advance infertility treatments. A |
| have been confirmed to be infertile. But for women | | | | good example is in vitro fertilization or IVF. As the |
| from thirty to thirty-four, an increased portion of | | | | mother grows older, the probability of live birth |
| 16.9% was found infertile. For women of thirty-five | | | | through in vitro fertilization decreases. For someone |
| to thirty-nine years of age, the percentage of | | | | of thirty-one years of age, successful rate is at 38%. |
| infertility rises to 22.6%. For those women between | | | | If the woman is at age thirty-nine, live birth rate |
| forty to forty-four years old, 27.4% of them were | | | | goes down to 22%. At the menopausal age of |
| infertile even before their menopausal period. | | | | around forty-three, the chance for success is less |
| Women who are suffering from infertility problems | | | | than 10% |
| often think that they are the only one experiencing | | | | These statistics should not dishearten couples with |
| the battle with infertility. However, they should | | | | infertility problems from finding an answer. Women |
| remember that: first, it is possible that the couples | | | | above forty years old can look for egg donors, which |
| around them who have babies could have undergone | | | | even has greater chance for success of 45% in |
| some type of infertility treatment earlier; and, even | | | | comparison to only 10% for IVF. This percentage is |
| though someone encounters problems getting | | | | even greater than the live birth rate of women |
| pregnant that does not mean it's impossible to get | | | | around thirty years old who use their own eggs. |
| pregnant. | | | | |