{"id":716,"date":"2019-03-02T14:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2019-01-27T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T14:10:04","slug":"how-likely-are-you-to-be-fertile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"How Likely are You to be Fertile?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gynogabcom.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/b9ab5-032f05d50cc94a72b840b039bde1e7e8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Women have about a 15-20 percent chance of getting pregnant with a single episode of unprotected sex that occurs right at mid cycle, if you are under age 35. At other times of the cycle ovulation is possible, so the general &#8216;fecundity&#8217;  or fertility rate per cycle day is 8%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, once you have tried for a year, and have not conceived, you are considered infertile.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/reproductivehealth\/infertility\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Some of the common causes of infertility can be found here. <\/a>The government tracks who is fertile and who is not, and you can check their statistics at their site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fertility is very age dependent. A much higher percent of women over 40 are infertile than women under 30 of course! Their main trends in fertility in the US today are the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Number of women ages 15-44 with impaired fecundity (impaired ability to have children): 6.7 million,<\/li><li>Percent of women ages 15-44 with impaired fecundity: 12.1%<\/li><li>Number of married women ages 15-44 that are infertile (unable to get pregnant for at least 12 consecutive months): 1.5 million<\/li><li>Percent of married women ages 15-44 that are infertile: 6.0%<\/li><li>Number of women ages 15-44 who have ever used infertility services: 7.4 million<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women have about a 15-20 percent chance of getting pregnant with a single episode of unprotected sex that occurs right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,12],"tags":[54,110],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-physiology","category-our-gyno-health","category-gynos-guide-to-sex-life","tag-fertility","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}