If your own fertility and that of your partner is normal there will be roughly a 25% chance of becoming pregnant as a result of unprotected intercourse during the fertile period of each cycle. With months of trying it is expected that about 85% couples will achieve a pregnancy by the end of the first year.

You and your partner have tried for months, perhaps for even more than a year. But despite sexual intercourse without birth control, you've been unable to conceive a child. This is not helped by the apparent ease that others around you seem to have in conceiving; your sister having her second baby, your friend having a termination of pregnancy, babies in ads and all over TV - everyone is having a baby except you - even people who don't want one !!!!

If you've been trying to conceive for more than a year, there's a good chance that something may be interfering with your reproductive function.

Infertility, also known as subfertility, is the inability to conceive a child within one year of unprotected intercourse. Infertility may be due to a single cause in either you or your partner, or a combination of factors that may prevent a pregnancy from occurring or continuing. It affects about 15% of couples.

On this site I have put together the information that I usually pass onto patients when I counsel them as well as useful information collected from various sources.

I hope this gives you a rough idea about the problem at large. It will be my endeavor to constantly upgrade the information given here so your valuable suggestions are always welcome.