Calm, care, security and safety at Shantah IVF Centre

This indeed is the toughest time for all of us. Getting use to new normal with face masks, PPE kits and social distancing is our absolute priority. We completely understand your concerns about getting pregnant that it why we have made so many changes in our clinical environment, the way we provide treatment and also how we interact with you and each other to make sure it's as safe as possible for you having your IVF treatment at Shantah IVF Centre under the pragmatic approach of our clinic experts.

Please feel free to come for your treatment as fertility nurses get their face masks on to welcome patients. Staff and patients are responding well and taking the additional safety checks and changes to procedures in good spirit.

We will continue to offer virtual consultations and appointment with our doctors, nurses and counselors by video call or telephone. There are also some benefits to patients. We have taken the opportunity to rethink the patient journey to

What all you should know about male infertility?

Male infertility is the issue in 20 percent of cases of infertile couples. So it’s important for your partner also to be involved in the process and to undergo testing, too. A semen analysis can tell doctors about sperm motility, shape, and concentration, all of which can play a role infertility. It is important to understand that men undergo fertility problems as well and have a biological clock too, like women. Their biological clock is definitely very different to that of women’s as they undergo deterioration in the fertility levels much later, around their 60s whereas women face it during their early 30s.

There are several contributing factors but it’s often difficult to get to the root of the problem. The Contributing causes for

Coping With Infertility

Infertility is a challenge that requires personal change in order to meet the demands of the process. I have personally experienced that many women have said, “The more I realized that infertility changed my life, the more it made me take steps to change my life but coping with infertility is really a tough job”. There is a lot to manage when you are trying to get pregnant and dealing with infertility issues. The most difficult could be the emotional ups and downs that inbuilt in the process.

People around you can be insensitive and terrible in their comments. Social situations, like a baby shower or seeing moms with babies are extremely painful. Many women feel betrayed by their body and the injustice of the whole thing.

What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease?

By Dr. Anubha Singh

BPositive Magazine

Many a times a woman is diagnosed with problems such as PCOS, PCOD, blocked fallopian tubes etc for infertility, another new name intruding into the field of STD infertility is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). It is the next complicated stage of sexually transmitted disease (STD). PID refers to infection of the womb, fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the womb) and other reproductive organs, leading to infertility quandaries.     

Pelvic inflammatory disease develops when microorganisms, like bacteria infect female reproductive organs. Normally the Cervix (the lower part of the Uterus extending into the vagina) acts as a barrier to prevent the entry of disease-causing microorganisms into the inner reproductive organs. During certain disease conditions, the Cervix gets tainted facilitating the entry of microorganisms to the other parts, which might lead to PID.     

What are its causes:     

Although there are diverse grounds for being troubled by the disease, you can get PID through several ways like:  

• having sex with a person infected with Chlamydia (A sexually transmitted disease caused by an organism called Chlamydia trachomitis)  
• If women choose to have multiple sex partners and the ones who are in the right age cohort of conceiving are