Dr. Shyam V Kulkarni - Fertility and IVF Specialist in Vashi Navi Mumbai

For many couples, the path to parenthood is not always how they may have envisioned, especially after experiencing a long road to infertility or in some cases knowing from the beginning there will be a difficulty. However, the birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the first-ever baby born following conceptions by in-vitro fertilization (IVF), thousands of infertile couples got a path to parenthood. Dr. Shyam Kulkarni, Chief Infertility & IVF Specialist at Raj IVF Center That “IVF or In-vitro fertilization, fertility medications are used to stimulate the ovaries into releasing healthy eggs. These eggs are then removed from the woman’s ovaries and fertilized in a lab. The fertilized eggs then multiply.” Once they have multiplied, the embryos are transferred to the woman’s uterus. The embryo must then attach itself to the wall of the womb or uterus to confirm the pregnancy. For an IVF patient, the “two weeks wait” time after embryo transfer is an emotionally difficult time. It is very h...

In spite of you having normal cycles, the ovaries could be running out of the eggs that may be available to you to conceive. We need to suspect this condition if you are unable to conceive in a reasonable frame of time (Reduced Fecundity), Inadequate response to the hormones given to you by your doctor or unexplained repeated pregnancy losses, wherein urgent attention is required and aggressive management to prop up the reduced ovarian reserve and also to bail you out of opting for donor eggs. Causes can be Idiopathic (where no cause is identified as yet), Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Genetic mutations, Ovarian (Endometriosis)and tubal surgeries, etc. Smoking, which researchers say tends to propone menopause by a couple of years and hence one may be running out of eggs earlier than same age woman. Since nearly 10% of a woman undergo accelerated oocyte (egg) pool depletion, which leads to infertility early on, and may affect many women delaying childbearing, this issue m...