Reproductive Health, Infertility and IVF

Fertility and Infertility

Fertility is a natural ability to produce offspring and conceive. As a measure, fertility rate is the number of offspring born per mating pair, individual or population. Fertility differs from fecundity, which influenced by gamete production, fertilization and carrying a pregnancy called reproduction. Human fertility depends on factors of sexual behavior, nutrition, consanguinity, instinct, endocrinology, timing, and way of life, culture, economics, and emotions. A woman’s most fertile time is during ovulation. Ovulation occurs within 11th to 21st day of a woman’s cycle. A lack of fertility is called infertility, while a lack of fecundity would be called sterility. Infertility is the inability of a person or condition in both male or female, animal and plant to reproduce by natural means. Infertility in human can likewise be treated with ARTs.