Childlessness

Infertile couples are socially isolated and emotionally very vulnerable. More and more couple is showing up at fertility clinics these days,searching for answers, hope and eventual parenthood. Haji Hakeem Mohd.Marghoob, a prominent unani physician once said that despite the enormous growth in population, it should be noted that humans are not very efficient at producing babies. All most all the couples expect to have their own babies, once they get married. But getting pregnant is like a game of odds, or game of luck. It is impossible to predict when an individual couple will succeed in achieving pregnancy. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that some eggs do not fertilize and some of the fertilized eggs do not grow well in the early developmental stage. However over a period of one year the chance of achieving a successful pregnancy is between 80% and 90% in other words. 7 out of 8 couples will be on their way to becoming parents within a year. These are the normal "fertile" couples and the rest are labeled as "infertile". And if you have been having sexual intercourse two or three times a week, at about the time of ovulation without any form of birth control for a year or more and have not become pregnant, you meet the definition of being "infertile". Couples who have never had a child are said to have "primary infertility", those women who have become pregnant at least once, but are unable to conceive again said to have "secondary infertility"