When trying to conceive a baby, it’s quite common that the act of love making goes out of the window and it just becomes purely about baby making. This can have a drastic impact on a couple’s relationship both sexually and emotionally. The pressure can cause distress for both the male and female and symptoms such as erectile dysfunction can present as soon as the pressure to ‘get pregnant’ features.

Progesterone is an important hormone that plays an active part in not only achieving conception but sustaining pregnancy. It is a steroid hormone that is produced by both the adrenal cortex as well as the gonads.

Infertility is defined as the failure to achieve pregnancy after 12 months of regular unprotected sexual intercourse and it affects 1 in 7 couples…