Fertility and Infertility
Resource Brief

Websites

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Patient Education FAQs. Fact sheets in a question-and-answer format about evaluating infertility and treating infertility.
  
  
• American Fertility Association (AFA). Information and support for women and men dealing with infertility. Topics include infertility causes and treatments; adoption; third-party reproduction; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender family building; and preventing infertility.
  
  
• American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). Educational tools, practice guidelines, patient information, ethics committee reports and statements, and research news on reproductive health topics that include fertility preservation, recurrent pregnancy loss, infertility, assisted reproductive technology (ART), and state infertility health insurance laws.
  
  
• American Urological Association Foundation (AUAF): Male Infertility. Information about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of male infertility.
  
  
• Census Bureau: Fertility. Data tables about the fertility of American women and men.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  
  Division of Reproductive Health. Information about infertility and about CDC's efforts to develop a national action plan for prevention, detection, and management of infertility. Also presents reports, data, video clips, and fact sheets about assisted reproductive technology (ART), including reports about ART success rates and resources about preparing for pregnancy and infertility treatment.
  
  Fertility Drugs Impact on US Births. (2010). [Data brief].
  
  National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). National data and statistics about fertility and infertility, including
  
  
  • Childbearing Differences Among Three Generations of U.S. Women. (2011). [Data brief].
    
    
  • FastStats. Statistics about births and natality and infertility with links to additional resources.
    
    
  • National Vital Statistics System: Birth Data. Statistical information from birth certificates in the United States. Cohort fertility tables include central birth rates, cumulative birth rates, birth distributions, and birth probabilities for cohorts of women as they pass through their childbearing years.
    
    
• RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. Information for people experiencing infertility on topics that include diagnosis, management, and family-building options. Also presents online infertility support communities and directories for professional services by specialty (e.g., fertility consultants), support groups, and local RESOLVE helplines.
  
  
• womenshealth.gov: Trying to Conceive. Information in English and Spanish about fertility awareness, infertility, options for infertile couples, and additional resources.
  
  
• Livingston G, Cohn D. 2010. The New Demography of American Motherhood. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center. [Report].
  

Related MCH Library Resources

• Assisted Reproductive Technologies resource brief
• Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents knowledge path, family resource brief, school resource brief
• Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss knowledge path, family resource brief
• Medications resource brief
• Preconception and Pregnancy knowledge path, family resource brief

Fertility and Infertility: Resource Brief. (January 2012).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.