What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?

What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?

Jay Goldberg (Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?; How does my age affect my ability to conceive?; How can I improve my chances of getting pregnant? and more...

The factors that would affect a woman's ability to conceive include such things as a prior infectious history, where it affected the patency of your fallopian tubes. In particular, chlamydia is most known for that, but pelvic inflammatory disease or any pelvic infection can damage your tubes. A prior surgery can cause problems, where you've had surgery in the past and it's damaged the fallopian tubes and their ability to allow the sperm and the egg to meet. You can have had a history of something called endometriosis that can damage the integrity of the fallopian tubes, as well. Lifestyle as well, leading a poor lifestyle like cigarette smoking and such, can sometimes increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy, which is a pregnancy outside the uterus. Those are several factors that can affect the ability to concieve.