Enhance your fertility with these super foods

If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to conceive this year, Shantah Fertility Centre can help. All of us fought the 2020 corona virus battle very hard. This virus has taken a toll on everyone’s health be it mental or physical. By improving one's fertility health includes this long list of factors, adopting a diet rich in whole foods is a place to start, more specifically, fruits and vegetables. Research has proven that if you are trying to conceive then it is very important for a woman to maintain a healthy lifestyle and being physically fit is of utmost importance as it helps in regaining stamina and rejuvenating the energy level. 

While we all know that diet and exercise help keep our bodies healthy, and healthy bodies are essential for achieving pregnancy, did you know that there are some foods that could help boost your fertility? Add some (or all) of these to your diet this year to potentially improve your changes. Below is a list of super foods that could boost your fertility:  

• Protein based foods: Try and increase the consumption of plant-based protein sources such as beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, and tofu, it may

Is Lack of Sleep disrupting your fertility?

According to the findings done by Philips annual global survey, lack of sleep is something over 30 percent of Indians find it difficult to initiate and maintain sleep and it only gets worse for patients dealing with the stress of undergoing fertility treatments. There is a certain age group whose sleep hours are often given over to late nights at work, binge watching on TV and smartphones. But for couples trying to get pregnant, a lack of sleep could be sabotaging their efforts. For instance Harish Atthotra, a Gurugram based professional; he didn’t smoke, was not overweight and did not suffer from diabetes. He walked every day, and even ran a half-marathon. But he slept late usually at 1 am, or even later. After coming from office he usually spends time watching Netflix’s latest or his favorite match series. He and his wife Dimple (31) are trying from long for a baby but couldn’t get successful. His wife’s forceful behavior and uneasiness in conceiving forced him to seek medical help one January morning at our Vasant Vihar centre to which we find out that there is a significant disruption of hormones which makes it difficult for him to make his wife pregnant. Your health, mood,hormones, and fertility are all affected by how much, and how well, you sleep. 

Sleep Deprivation is a Fertility Killer

Not getting enough sleep doesn’t just influence your mood and productivity; it also influences the hormones a woman secretes throughout her cycle. Studies have shown that getting enough quality sleep has a positive effect on the reproductive hormones a woman produces, including progesterone, estrogen, Leptin, and Follicle-Stimulating Hormones (FSH).

Getting enough quality sleep is even more important for women hoping to achieve a pregnancy using IVF. According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s study, women with low quality sleep had

How to maintain a healthy lifestyle amidst COVID-19?

COVID-19 has resulted in people putting so many aspects of their lives on hold from weddings, vacations, to buying a new home. In midst o all these managing infertility has also become challenging. People need to take special precautions rather than worry about it. A healthy lifestyle amidst COVID-19 can help you take control of an uncertain time. Many women can benefit from a diet and lifestyle reset. Eating fertility boosting foods and managing stress can help get you in the best shape possible for your next cycle and help you regain some control in a time that feels out of control. 

Junk food and carb-heavy “comfort foods” might feel good in the short term, but in the long run you’ll want to focus on foods that support your fertility. Here are some tips: 

1. Eat fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables: Eat generous amounts of vegetables and moderate amounts of fruit try including vegetables, fruits, salads, beans and cereals in your diet. I tell all my patients to get colorful when

It is possible to 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 Shreya Arora(name changed) found out that she was expecting a baby, it was her best birthday gift  she could have hoped for. 

Shreya 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. 

The challenges of getting pregnant with PCOS 

PCOS is one of the most common causes of infertility in women and can have a number of symptoms including irregular periods and excess facial hair. 

The diagnosis had hit Shreya hard and she admits that she coped with it by mentally closing off the option of ever

Don’t get panic when your fertility starts ticking

“All my life I've been told I need to get pregnant before it's too late” said Divyanka Tripathi (name changed) when she met Dr. Anubha Singh. When you constantly hear such things,this creates fear in your mind; a kind of anxiety and panic builds up around you to which I call Baby Panic. 

Baby panic is anxiety usually experienced by women around their biological clock and whether they can satisfy a desire to have a baby.

There are actually two kind of women experiencing baby panic. The first includes those who are trying to have a baby, but there is a question mark around whether it's possible. The second is women who want to have a baby but are into family planning or they don’t feel that this is the right time to have a baby responsibility.

Being in India especially there is always a baby pressure around once you get married. The pressure is both internal and external, and