Infertility Talk: Still a TABOO??

At a certain point in life desire to have a family is of top most priority for married couples. However, when their longing to have a child turns out to be a failure then that can be distressing emotional blow on the sentiments of these couples.

Talking about sexual or fertility problems in our society is considered as a taboo and when couples face these problems they want someone to talk about it. People feel ashamed or embarrassed while talking about their infertility problems but it should be the other way round because when someone will talk about their problem then only they can find a solution.

Without appropriate treatment and support of family and friends success in overcoming these problems is very difficult. Impact of infertility differs greatly for different individuals and it is always influenced by cultural background and the society they live in. People in small towns and villages are not even aware about infertility treatments available, they prefer worshiping their gods and if they don’t succeed they prefer going for second marriage.

In some places, women who fail to have a child are even more socially stigmatised. Motherhood is considered to be the defining factor in a women’s life. It is a milestone achieved when a woman becomes a mother and it confers her adult identity with self respect and dignity.

We still need to aware and educate people about the options available and help them to talk about their problems instead of hiding them and getting depressed.

How normal pregnancy happens explained by infertility specialist in Delhi, Ridge IVF Center Delhi.

Pregnancy happens in female’s genital organ during menstruation (day 1). There are 5-8 eggs in each ovary. During menstruation eggs try to grow in ovary but only one egg gets dominate during 5^th-6^th day and it keeps on growing and travels to tube. In normal pregnancy egg ruptures on 14^th day and despatch from ovary and (a tube in female reproductive organ). During this period if partner has any contact then he releases million of sperms and one sperm go and meet that egg and fertilization happens in fallopian tube.

Initial life of embryo after fertilization starts in tube. It stays in tube for 2 days and has no attachment with mother. It gets nutrition from tube fluid. On 3^rd day egg jumps into uterus and gets modified and attached to mother. “Uterus grows as baby grows.”

After 9 months female gets pain in uterus also called “labor pain” and delivery happens either through vaginal area called Normal Delivery or by abdominal route by surgical means.

Male and female infertility explained by infertility specialist.

Male and Female infertility explained by Dr. Sarabjeet , Infertility Specialist, Ridge IVF Centre, Delhi. While explaining infertility to male and female firstly, we examine both of them. We take their detailed history, for female we do basic hormonal investigation, ultrasound and some basic test. Then we test where problem is and then try to rectify it and ask them to try naturally, if it happens then its fine otherwise we suggest them for artificial method like IUI, IVF etc.

Explaining about these techniques is not very difficult as awareness has increased a lot about the same. People prefer to go to infertility specialist rather than going to a gyane. Earlier this was a general trend going to gynaecology for any problem but this has changed now. There are so many fertility centres available and people are aware for the same, so they prefer to go there for any kind of consultation.

People think that if they are opting for any artificial technique there are 100% chances to conceive but this a biggest myth. IVF or any other artificial technique just gives 40% chances to conceive. In case of failure it’s not that we can’t try again we do try again.