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A medical condition causing repeated, often unexplained loss or difficulty, not a reflection of anyone's worth.
means The inability to conceive after sustained trying, or to carry a pregnancy to term — a medical condition, not a verdict on anyone's worth.
from Built from the Latin negative prefix 'in-' plus 'fertilis,' meaning fruit-bearing or productive, from 'ferre,' to bear or carry. The same root gives you 'fertile' soil and 'fertile' imaginations — so infertility is literally the state of not-bearing, a word that borrowed its metaphor from farmland long before it was ever used for bodies.
- affects whom
- roughly 1 in 6 couples worldwide
- split
- male factor involved about as often as female
- unexplained cases
- about 1 in 10 defy any diagnosis
- stress myth
- relaxing more does not reliably fix it