When a woman is unable to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term after already having had a child.
Refers to the case in which a person has conceived one or more children in the past but now is unable to conceive a child.
The inability of a couple which has successfully achieved pregnancy to achieve another. This strict medical definition includes couples for whom the pregnancy did not go to term. The common vernacular, however, refers to a couple which has one biological child but is unable to conceive another.
The inability to conceive a child after a year of unprotected intercourse in couples who have one or more children.
This is where there is an inability to conceive after already having one or more children.
Infertility in persons who have already had children.
Infertility in a woman who has had one or more pregnancies
Infertility of six months or more in a couple that has previously had a child. close window
The inability to conceive or carry a pregnancy after having conceived and carried one or more pregnancies.
Trouble getting pregnant (infertility) in someone who has previously had a successful or potentially successful pregnancy. Although the exact definition of secondary infertility can vary among gynecologists, for me the distinction between secondary infertility and primary infertility is most useful if the term secondary infertility is restricted to when there has been a prior induced abortion (which, the odds are, would otherwise have developed normally) or a successful pregnancy; a prior ectopic pregnancy or a prior miscarriage is, in my view, still the state of primary infertility.
infertility in a couple that has previously conceived at least once.
Infertility of a couple who have previously produced a child
The inability of a couple to achieve a second pregnancy. This strict medical definition includes couples for whom the pregnancy did not go to term. The common vernacular, however, refers to a couple which has one biological child (or more) but is unable to conceive another.
