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To a couple who wants to have a baby, trying month after month without success can be disheartening. Stories of other couples who tried repeatedly to have a baby, only to finally have success, make many couples wonder whether or not they should keep trying or pursue the help of a fertility clinic. If you are wondering whether or not... more »
If you are having trouble conceiving a baby, then you might wonder when it is time to start fertility treatments. The decision to start fertility treatments is a big one. By choosing to start fertility treatments, you are allowing a third party (the fertility specialist) into a process that before only involved two people. This... more »
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Fertility is the natural capability of giving life. As a measure, "fertility rate" is the number of children born per couple, person or population. This is different from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilisation and carrying a pregnancy to term). Infertility is a deficient fertility.
Human fertility depends on factors of nutrition, sexual behavior, culture, instinct, endocrinology, timing, economics, way of life, and emotions.
Agriculture
Fertility is also applied to farmlands and plants, where it implies a capacity to yield large crops of sound fruits, seeds or vegetables.
Demography
In demographic contexts, fertility refers the actual production of offspring, rather than the physical capability to produce which is termed fecundity.http://www.gfmer.ch/Books/Reproductive_health/The_demography_of_fertility_and_infertility.htmlhttp://www.enotes.com/public-health-encyclopedia/fecundity-fertility While fertility can be measured, fecundity cannot be. Demographers measure the fertility rate in a variety of ways, which can be broadly broken into "period" measures and "cohort" measures. "Period" measures refer to a cross-section of the population in one year. "Cohort" data on the other hand, follows the same people over a period of decades. Both period and cohort measures are widely used. For detailed discussions of each measure see Paul George Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, Encyclopedia of Population (2003)
Period measures
*Crude birth rate (CBR) - the number of children live births in a given year per 1,000 people alive at the middle of that year. One disadvantage of this indicator is that it is influenced by the age structure of the population.
*General fertility rate (GFR) - the number of births in a year divided by the number of women aged 15–44, times 1000. It focuses on the potential mothers only, and takes the age distribution into account.
*Child-W read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility
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