Hospital Management

As many as 1 in 6 Indian couples will have difficulties conceiving when they decide to start or extend their family. Pregnancy delay is still a relatively ‘silent’ topic, especially in India, with many couples preferring not to openly discuss their difficulties when trying for a baby. As a result, there is still a lack of knowledge in this area, with many couples maintaining an unrealistic concern that seeing a fertility specialist or IVF doctors will automatically result in them having to go down the IVF route. It should be reassuring to know that there are many effective alternatives to IVF, if you do decide to seek help from a fertility doctor . The Alternatives Fertility doctors are expert gynaecologists and obstetricians who specialise in fertility. They assess your full medical history and unless there is a good reason for moving straight to IVF, most fertility specialists will recommend a less invasive form of fertility treatment first. For women that don’t ovula...

Fertility has been (wrongly) treated as a women’s issue, but the fact is that men are as crucial to conception as they are to the ability to conceive. Statistics say that every 3 out of 10 cases of infertility are due to problems deriving from men, while most fertility doctors say that up to one-third of their practice is exclusively made up of men experiencing fertility issues.Women exhibit signs or are easily diagnosed with conditions that indicate future fertility problems, whereas most men are not aware of any issues until the try to conceive. At that point a semen analysis is the only way to check the 3 major factors of sperm health, the shape, volume and motility of the sperm. In roughly 25 per cent of the cases, there is no identifiable reason for low sperm count. For the rest, it can be chalked up to a number of health issues, including testicular injuries, infections from childhood (like mumps), chemotherapy and radiation, and operations like hernia surgery.But much lik...