What it is

• For men, infertility means not being able to get a woman pregnant.
• For women, it means not being able to get pregnant.

Ways men with infertility can become a parent:

• Donor sperm. This means getting a woman pregnant with sperm given by another man.
  
• Adoption. Taking on legal responsibility for someone else's child and raising the child as your own.

Ways women with infertility can become a parent:

• Donor embryos. Another couple donates a fertilized egg that your doctor implants in your uterus to carry until birth.
  
• Donor eggs. An egg (donated by someone else) is fertilized by your partner's sperm. Your doctor implants the fertilized egg in your uterus to carry until birth.
  
• Surrogacy. Another woman carries and gives birth to your child. She can also donate her egg, which is fertilized by your partner's sperm.
  
• Adoption. Taking on legal responsibility for someone else's child and raising the child as your own.