Articles of category "Fertility after forty"

As recently as 25 years ago, if a woman even thought about having a baby after the age of forty she was thought to be crazy! It just didn't happen. Forty years old was...well...OLD! But not any more. The perimeters of age have changed. And more and more women are starting a family long after their careers have been established. In modern society when women tend to make a career before starting a family, elder couples who want to become parents are quite a frequent phenomenon. Unfortunately, the female fertility decreases with years. Modern medicine offers different possibilities of fertility after forty treatment, including intrauterine insemination, ovarian hyper-stimulation procedure, and egg donation method.

The infertility problem affects many couples and is more widespread than ever before. In order to determine the cause of infertility a meticulous patient evaluation of both partners must be effectuated. There are a number of informative laboratory tests that in most cases can elucidate if infertility is caused by male or female factors or it is traced to factors in both the male and female partners.