BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Next week is Infertility Awareness Week, a time to highlight the one in six people worldwide who are unable to get pregnant.
Infertility is defined as failing to achieve a pregnancy after a year of trying. It can have serious impacts on a person’s mental and psycho-social well-being as well as stigma and financial hardship.
As more people delay starting their families, infertility clinics are seeing more patients and they say more people are now being covered by insurance as the definition of infertility expands to include same-sex couples.
“One of the reasons this is important is because those that have insurance coverage were supposed to try for 12 months before they could get treatment. And that just isn’t even part of the ball game when you are two females and don’t have a sperm source,” said Dr. Jenny Brown with Northeastern Reproductive Medicine in Colchester.