It is recommended to maintain a healthy lifestyle to maximize your chances of having a healthy pregnancy. It is ideal to exercise and maintain an ideal body weight as well as eat a healthy, well-balanced diet. While it is ideal to decrease stress, there is little evidence that infertility is caused by stress.

It is appropriate to start a fertility evaluation:

• if you have been trying for pregnancy for 1 year
• if you are older than age 34 and have been trying for pregnancy for 6 months
• if you have a known cause of possible infertility (for example, if you have irregular menstrual cycles, blocked tubes, endometriosis, or a low sperm count)