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Creating a new life is a meaningful event that involves numerous body systems.

From my experience with a great number of patients, at this stage it’s important to take a comprehensive look at all the variables that affect your ability to conceive: your age, weight, diet and sleep quality, your work/life balance, your physical and emotional condition, your lifestyle, your menstrual cycle and previous miscarriages if any. Of course, this is in addition to a medical diagnosis and investigating your fertility profile through tests for which you will be referred by a specialist (I work with some of best fertility specialists in Israel and other countries).

As a rule, fertility issues fall into two categories:

Fertility issues caused by a medical condition (a condition that has been investigated and confirmed by tests):

From irregular periods to ovulatory dysfunction, hormonal imbalance, thyroid conditions, underlying illness that has impaired fertility, thin endometrium, uterine scarring following earlier miscarriages, a uterus with a certain shape, and others. It’s important to reach a diagnosis, and, of course, one needs to take into account that “it takes two to tango”, meaning that if you have been trying unsuccessfully to fall pregnant for more than a year, your partner will also need to have a sperm count and morphology test.

Unexplained infertility (no medical cause has been found, and all possible medical contributory factors have been ruled out):

Here, the reasons are diverse and individual. However, the literature contains a great deal of information that points to the direct effects of tension and anxiety, emotional stress and mental state on the ability to conceive. Throughout my career I have witnessed a number of cases in which the couple, after trying for years, opted for adoption or surrogacy, and while waiting for the baby to arrive, discovered they were pregnant!