Motherhood: the greatest gift of all

By Dr. Shobha Gupta 

Every year on 8th of May we celebrate Mother’s Day. Motherhood completes a woman; in fact it makes you a better person. There is a famous saying by Robert Browning that “Motherhood: all love begins here and ends here”. 

We came across many women who unfortunately couldn’t become mother on their own. Often they fall in the trap of infertility. Due to fast paced life and sedentary lifestyles motherhood has taken a back seat and people are busy in building their careers. Our lifestyle plays a pivotal role in maintaining the overall body health and thereby affects our fertility which further reduces the chances of conceiving naturally. 

Easy and convenient reach to junk food like burgers, pizzas, Chinese food etc, wrong eating habits, late working hours, disturbed sleep patterns, too much stress and much more; all these factors severely affects our fertility. Hence, you become infertile and couldn’t become mother on your own. 

According to ICMR (Indian council of medical research) bulletin it is estimated that globally between 60-80 million couples suffer from infertility every year, of which probably between 15- 20 million are in India alone. 

With the approach of the twentieth century the world has witnessed a series of new technologies. Thanks to science and we are glad to our modern technology that with In Vitreo Fertilization or IVF technique, a woman can now enjoy motherhood and become mother on their own even after crossing their puberty age. Women have lower pregnancy chances after 30. The fertility of a woman starts declining after she crosses 30 and men fertility too starts dropping after 35. The chances of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or chromosomal abnormality go up as you come of age in such couples. In such cases IVF support is very high. 

At our Mother’s Lap IVF centre we have world class advanced fertility, infertility, IUI, IVF and Surrogacy treatments available. You can witness the history our centre is the brightest ray of hope for all those couples who have been trying for years to conceive. Our centre is dedicated to every aspect of infertility treatment to help the patients to achieve pregnancy in the shortest possible time.  

Thanks to IVF, women around the world have experienced the joy of being mother. 

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you.!

PCOS affects millions of women worldwide

By Dr. Shobha Gupta

The pleasure of mother hood and bringing a new life into existence is undoubtedly the greatest blessing to every woman.  Every mother trained their daughters in teens to beware of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome which could get in the way of a pregnancy. Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common total body endocrine disease that affects women of reproductive age from puberty to menopause. It affects approximately 10% of women in the reproductive age group.

Watch out for unwanted hairs and extra weight around your waist. It could be PCOS. Both males and females produce hormones called androgens, referred to as male hormones, which play a role in sexual functioning of the body. In girls with PCOS, the ovaries produce higher levels of androgens than normal, and this interferes with egg development and release. Some of the eggs develop into cysts which are little sacs filled with liquid and instead of being released during ovulation, these cysts build up in the ovaries and even get enlarged , hence the main polycystic ovaries or Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome.

Women with infrequent menstrual periods or irregular bleeding