Infertility. What a topic! I know there is so much to cover with infertility. If I were to do one episode and talk about infertility, we'd be here for a month. Or longer, so I'm not gonna do that. That's why these Thursday episodes are short, three to five minute episodes, just to give you the facts. We can dive deeper, we can get way deeper with all of this.

But for now, let's just start with the simple stuff. Today we're talking about infertility as a whole, the general topic, the definition, what the statistics are surrounding infertility, the basics.. But before we dive into that, I just want to emphasize infertility is an important topic. It is not discussed enough.

There's not a lot that people, generally speaking, know about it because it's complicated. It's taboo and it shouldn't be. I am proud to say that I was an infertility warrior. Technically, I still am. Because when you're an infertility warrior, you are always a warrior. You fight this thing and it stays with you forever.

I'm proud of that. I strongly believe that infertility is not a taboo topic. It is something everybody should understand and talk about and not feel uncomfortable about. I get why people feel uncomfortable if you don't know what to say to someone going through infertility. It's tough. But if you're someone going through infertility and people around you don't know what to say, that's equally tough. And we will get to that in another episode.

But today we're talking basics. What is infertility? What's the definition? What does it mean? What are the statistics? I've got so much more to come for you, but here's an introduction, so let's get to it. What is infertility? 

Infertility is the inability to conceive, or get pregnant, despite regularly timed sexual intercourse without protection or contraception for one year. This number changes to six months in people over the age of 35.

Infertility can cause a tremendous amount of anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma. This includes emotional trauma, physical trauma, and spiritual trauma. Seeing a negative pregnancy test is a very different experience than seeing a positive pregnancy test in people with infertility.

Infertility affects one in eight couples. This number can also be looked at as 12.5%. One third of infertility cases are caused by male factor infertility. Another third of cases are caused by female factor infertility. And the last third of cases are caused by both male and female factor infertility.

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