Female Infertility

Infertility can concern both male and female individuals. Specifically, male infertility is a condition that affects people assigned male at birth (AMAB), and that interferes with the ability of their reproductive system to impregnate a person assigned female at birth (AFAB).

What happens if a man is infertile?

If you have male infertility, it means you have repeated unprotected sexual intercourse for over a year but your AFAB partner doesn’t get pregnant.

How common is male infertility?

Infertility affects 186 million people worldwide, and the male partner is the cause in about half of the cases. Some studies show that male infertility affects about 10% to 15% of males in the United States who are trying to conceive.

Is it easy to conceive?

No, it isn’t easy to conceive. The human species is considered a species with low reproductive capacity. A fertile and young couple, for every month of free intercourse, has only a 20-25% chance of conceiving.

Conception is a complicated process that depends on many factors in the male and female reproductive systems, including:

• Producing healthy male reproductive cells (sperm) and a healthy female reproductive cell (egg).
• Unblocked fallopian tubes that allow sperm to reach the egg.
• The sperm’s ability to fertilize the egg when they meet.
• The ability of the fertilized egg (embryo) to implant in the uterus.

For the pregnancy to continue to full term (39 to 40 weeks and six days), the embryo must be healthy, and the female’s hormonal environment must be adequate enough for the embryo to develop. Infertility can happen if something affects just one of these factors.