Bethany Mendoza's List: Infertility in Women

• hinders the body's ability to ovulate, conceive, or carry an infant to term

  • cant ovulate, conceive, or carry infant to tem
• A couple is considered infertile when they have not conceived after a full year of regular sexual intercourse without using contraception

  • full year of no conception-infertile

• • after age thirty more likely to be infertile
• can prevent contact between the egg and sperm
• Whether due to abnormal mucus production or a prior cervical surgical procedure, this problem may be treated with intrauterine inseminations.

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• Failure to produce mature eggs
• The hypothalamus is the portion of the brain responsible for sending signals to the pituitary gland, which, in turn, sends hormonal stimuli to the ovaries in the form of FSH and LH to initiate egg maturation.  If the hypothalamus fails to trigger and control this process, immature eggs will result.  This is the cause of ovarian failure in 20% of cases.