Most common causes of female infertility

A woman’s fertility is influenced by her age: female fertility peaks in the early to mid 20’s and declines slowly until the age of 35, However, there are a number of younger women who, despite their perceived fertility, have difficulty in conceiving.
It is generally advised that women under the age of 35 age wait for one year before investigating why they are failing to conceive.

There are two types of infertility:

Primary infertility: where someone who has never conceived a child in the past has difficulty conceiving.

Secondary infertility: where a person has had one or more pregnancies in the past, but is having difficulty conceiving again. It is estimated that 1/3 of the causes of infertility are associated with male factors such as poor sperm quality, 1/3 attributed to female factors. Three of the most common conditions that contribute to early female infertility are pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.

Egg freezing: the new wave in family planning

By Dr. Shobha Gupta

Hindustan Times - HT Cafe

There is no iota of doubt that the field of medicine has gained much appreciation and came up with advance technologies to combat infertility through IVF (in vitreo fertilization) which is very very common now. Frozen eggs also has gained popularity since few years and especially when in a 2014 tech conglomerates Apple and Facebook announced that they will pay the bill of egg freezing process of their female employees. They took the decision to attract more female employees and maintain their retention rates so they may have prolonged careers (news piece published by The Guardian, UK)

Freezing eggs means preserving your eggs in specialized laboratories of IVF centre. As you age the quality of eggs starts declining. Women can have their own eggs froze and can use whenever they plan family. Storing your eggs may enable you to use them for treatment in the future.

It benefits specifically the older women: Let’s say a couple has a baby through IVF and the couple froze some of the eggs for future use. When she returns in a few years for an frozen egg transfer for her second baby, her ovaries and eggs will have aged and her fertility will have statistically