Fertility issues are considered to occur when there is an inability to conceive a child after two years of trying to do so. This is termed infertility. This is a problem that requires full medical assessment and backup before complementary therapies are tried.

Infertility falls into two categories, primary infertility and secondary infertility.

Primary Infertiity

Primary infertiity occurs when neither partner has achieved a pregnancy with any partner. This might indicate that there is some physiological problem with one or both. There may be ovulatory problems with the woman, a low sperm count in the man, or a chlamydial infection in either or both.

Secondary Infertility

Secondary Infertility is present when either partner has had one or more pregnancy with a previous partner. This would then suggest that if there was a physiological problem that it lay with other partner although that might not necessarily be true. For example a postnatal womb infection in the woman may have damaged the ability to conceive, where previously fertility was normal.

Also helpful may be our pages for menopause, endometriosis and premenstrual syndrome.