{"id":23531,"date":"2022-08-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.mom.com\/momlife\/how-do-i-know-if-im-infertile"},"modified":"2024-09-25T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T21:38:08","slug":"how-do-i-know-if-im-infertile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.com\/getting-pregnant\/how-do-i-know-if-im-infertile","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Know if I&#8217;m Infertile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>The time has come. You&rsquo;re ready to expand your family and have a baby. But the problem is you&rsquo;ve been having regular sex, and month after month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/getting-pregnant\/what-type-of-pregnancy-test-should-you-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pregnancy test<\/a> keeps coming out negative. Even though you track your <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/getting-pregnant\/5-natural-ways-to-detect-ovulation-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ovulation<\/a> and have been following a healthy lifestyle, you still haven&rsquo;t gotten pregnant. <\/p><p>By this time, the question of infertility has crossed your mind. If that is the case, don&rsquo;t worry because you are not alone. In fact, in the United States, 10% to 15% of couples are infertile, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/infertility\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20354317#:~:text=In%20the%20United%20States%2C%2010,of%20factors%20that%20prevent%20pregnancy.\">Mayo Clinic<\/a>. <\/p><p>&ldquo;The chance of getting pregnant, even for a young healthy couple, is not more than 20 percent, or one in five, every month,&rdquo; Dr. Alan Copperman, M.D., director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/female-infertility.html\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. <\/p><p>To help you  know if it&rsquo;s infertility or something else, we'll cover the symptoms, <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/getting-pregnant\/what-have-you-done-to-boost-fertility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what you can do<\/a>, and different infertility treatments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come. You&rsquo;re ready to expand your family and have a baby. But the problem is you&rsquo;ve been having regular sex, and month after month, the pregnancy test keeps coming out negative. Even though you track your ovulation and have been following a healthy lifestyle, you still haven&rsquo;t gotten pregnant. By this time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":201317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,79],"tags":[398,3442,3441,1229,1230,500],"featured":[],"internal-tag":[],"series":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Do I Know if I&#039;m Infertile?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you&#039;re concerned about infertility, read on. 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