A Research Study on Female Suicides Due to Infertility in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh from 2010 to 2016

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), infertility can be described as the inability to become pregnant, maintain a pregnancy, or carry a pregnancy to live birth. Infertility affects about 10% of all couples. About 30% of infertility is because of female infertility, 30% of infertility is because of male infertility and in the rest of the cases infertility affects both of them or the reason is unclear. Each menstrual cycle is regulated by complex increase and changes of different reproductive hormones which work together to prepare the woman's body ready for conception and pregnancy. Conception occurs only when egg is fertilised by sperm. Female infertility affects an estimated 48 million women in the world. Infertility in woman is caused by many causes, including nutrition, diseases, and other malformations of the uterus. Although factors of female infertility can be classified as acquired or genetic, female infertility is usually more or less a combination of nature and nurture. When a woman cannot bear children, it tremendously affects her identity, but the pain can extend far beyond her to impact personal relationships. Women often begin to imagine themselves as mothers long before actually trying to have children, and this is certainly influenced by implicit cultural and society messages that idealize motherhood. When this imagined self of a mother, however tentative, is withdrawn, it may result in feeling a loss of control, threaten her imagined future, cause her to doubt her womanhood, and feel like an assault on her ability leading to depression and suicidal thoughts, in some cases landing up in suicidal deaths.