Do you want to know which fertility treatment suits you the best?

This pandemic is indeed hard for everyone. Life is slowly getting new normal, people are getting used to it but the corona virus or covid 19 is still here.  It can be hard enough to tie your shoes in the morning or put yourself to bed at night. Depression, work from home pressure, anxiety, nervousness have all become a part of life.

Many known persons or even bollywood celebrities are either expecting or gave birth to their child during this pandemic. Now whether you’re trying to get pregnant right now, or you’re just educating yourself for the future and even if you’re dealing with fertility issues, you can’t exactly tell yourself to just stop thinking about it. Because there is a good news; with the help of a specialist, there’s a lot of valued information available.

Infertility is very common in India. Nearly 27.5 million couples are actively trying to conceive and suffer from infertility in the country. Though people are aware of infertility treatments like IVF, IUI, sperm donors or even surrogacy etc; thanks to our Indian media for that for spreading such great and valued information and even recent Kriti Sanon starrer bollywood movie Mimi is entirely based on Surrogacy. But still people are not educated about what fertility treatment they require in their current situation as IVF or Surrogacy is not for everyone.

For starters, we wanted to find out exactly what IVF and IUI are and how they might help a woman get pregnant. Also one must be curious to know about cost, alternative medicine, sperm donors, surrogates, and a lot of other things. Let’s discuss the treatments below:

What Does Your Menstrual Cycle Say About Your Fertility?

One of the most common questions that most of the doctor asks for their patients is “When was the first day of your last period?” The answer to this question may feel like part of the usual routine at your annual gynaec appointment if you have been trying to conceive without success. The answer could provide important insight into factors related to the menstrual cycle and conception such as hormonal imbalances and ovulation.

What is Menstrual cycle?

The menstrual cycle is a series of changes a woman’s body goes through each month whereby the ovary releases an egg and the uterus prepares for pregnancy.

The first day of your chums or period is day 1 of your cycle and the start of the follicular phase. During this phase, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), is released from the brain to stimulate the development of a single dominant

What to do when you plan your pregnancy at the age of 40?

Women today look towards financial stability first in their life and are more focused towards their career. And not only women, men are also in no hurry to start a family any time soon; hence given the rise to DINK couples (double income and no kids). As a result more women are getting married around 30-35 years of age or even later. Due to this, the mean age at first pregnancy is also slowly rising, with many women approaching Fertility Clinics for the first time at the age of 40 years for help in conceiving.

Delaying pregnancy sometimes leads to miscarriage or even infertility. With increasing age in females, the ovarian reserve or the number of eggs that a lady has, reduces drastically translating into decreased chances of natural pregnancy. Moreover there is a rapid decline in quality of eggs too due to which the chances of miscarriages also may increase. Research has shown that a 40 year old female seeking fertility has only 25 % chance of pregnancy with own eggs and it decreases to 1.6% at age of 44. If she conceives, the risk of miscarriage is around 25% at 40 years and around 50% at 44 years.

At the age of 40 and above, the incidence of medical problems like Diabetes Mellitus, High Blood Pressure is more. These may get aggravated during the

Be aware of PCOS

As we all know September is PCOS awareness month which is being discussed about all over the world. PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a hormonal imbalance that interferes with a woman’s reproductive system. When you have PCOS, your ovaries are larger than normal and can have many tiny cysts that contain immature eggs which create hindrances in conceiving. It is one of the most common causes of infertility in women.

Basically, PCOS is a common condition and being overweight worsens all the clinical features. Watch out if you see these clinical features like:

Can you get pregnant even If you have PCOS?

There are many success stories of Shantah Fertility Centre where complicated cases get success and couples find their happiness when a baby is born. Today I am sharing one of those tough cases where Meenal Singh (name changed) found out that she was expecting a baby, it was her best birthday gift; she could have hoped for.

Meenal had been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) at the age of only 16 and was on medication for long and obviously her chances of getting pregnant with PCOS were very weak.

What are the challenges of getting pregnant with PCOS?