Common causes of infertility that you should know

At some point of time every man and woman thinks of extending their family

which means they want to settle down and have kids. But in today’s fast paced life one’s lifestyle plays a pivotal role in fertility. There are numerous issues which creates hindrances in becoming a parent. Here are 6 common causes which impairs infertility, please have a look:

Blocked Fallopian tubes: Blocked or damaged Fallopian tubes prevent sperm from getting to your egg for fertilization. This condition also prevents the fertilized egg from getting to your uterus. For a successful pregnancy to take place, your fertilized egg has to move to the uterus for growth. It is usually caused by pelvic inflammatory disease, sexually transmitted infections (such as chlamydia), and any history of uterine infection caused by abortion or miscarriage.

Importance of Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is a wonderful experience to a woman. Although it’s a natural process,

breastfeeding is a learned skill, which requires practice and patience. First of all make sure you should increase your water intake. This is extremely important when you are breastfeeding your newly born. If you stay hydrated more milk will be produced and it will help you feel energetic the whole day too. Keep your meals simple yet nutritious. Always keep fresh fruits and vegetables at home so that when you feel hungry you do not grab any snack or cookies or high and empty calorie food items. 

Let’s discuss the benefits of breastfeeding:

Your breast milk is the best possible food for your baby and will give her the best start in life. It provides the required nutrition as well as immunity for your baby. Here are few benefits of breastfeeding for you and your baby: 

Mid-thirties and Infertility: Age does matters

These days more couples are delaying starting family into early mid-thirties’. The golden age for women

to conceive in their third decade of life that is their twenties. As more women are delaying getting pregnant, it is even more important that they try and maintain healthy life style to maintain optimum fertility.

Age and Fertility

Women’s age plays an important role in their fertility, women are born with around 4-5 million eggs which remain in a quiet stage until they reach teenage years. From teenage onwards, there is a slow and steady loss of the follicles and only 400,000 – 500,000 follicles remain. The process of the drop in quality and quantity of eggs gathers pace around the mid-thirties’. It gains even more pace in late thirties and later as women enter into their 40’s. The chances of getting pregnant for women in their 40’s can be as low as 5% when compared to

Preserving umbilical cord

By Dr. Shobha Gupta

The umbilical cord is a cord between mother and baby that connects a baby in the womb to its mother. It runs from an opening in your baby's stomach to the placenta in the womb. Placenta keeps your unborn baby’s blood supply separate from your own blood supply (mother). This placenta is enables to carry out the functions that the unborn baby cannot perform for itself 

Umbilical cord blood is a baby's blood left in the placenta after the baby is born and the umbilical cord is cut. Usually umbilical cord gets discarded along with the placenta blood as a waste

In the 1970's, medical researchers discovered that human umbilical cord blood contained the same kind of stem cells found in bone marrow. Researchers believed that they could also use stem cells from umbilical cord blood to save patients.

Delivery is the only time that stem cells may be extracted from the umbilical cord, otherwise they are discarded. The blood cells in the umbilical cord contain special stem cells