Emotional Fight of Infertile Woman

Motherhood is the best shower of God that completes the women but one nightmare of inability to become mother snatches away this happiness.

What happens when woman comes to know that she is infertile?

Unfortunately infertility has become the common problem these days that affect the patient mentally and emotionally. Woman who passes through this feeling can actually fight with her emotion that is hard to win.

·         When a woman came to know that she is infertile then she feels herself cursed and even feels guilty that she cannot give birth to her own child.

·         Woman that remains deprived from the feeling of mother then she feels isolated and even caught by emotional stress. She believes herself alone that is far away from the feeling of motherhood.

 

·         Anger is the next consequence of the infertility as the woman feels herself incomplete and even feels irritated from other mothers and even from children sometime.

·         Even among the children infertile woman feels uncomfortable and does not like to face them so avoid going in the families or friends that are having kids.

·         Getting pregnant taken for granted feeling of each woman so she feels heartbroken when she came to know that this granted blessing is get snatched from her. So it may lead to depression also in extreme cases

·         Some women lose their interest and level of pleasure in sexual relationships.

·         In few cases it has been observed that women take it as prospective to get pregnant and set it priority and ignore the rest of life.

What to do in fight of infertility?

Infertile women must be supported emotionally and mentally by their families especially by life partner and after that must consult the experts for solutions like IVF treatment for baby.

Plan your Diet While Pregnancy?

Good diet is really essential for good health but if you are pregnant then there is need to be more careful while choosing appropriate diet for you that must be beneficial for you and your baby in womb.

Doctors suggests to eat healthy and wisely to avoid complications during pregnancy and delivery.  There is great need to make diet chart for proper growth of baby.

What to eat?

Make sure that you are taking variety of food to get all needed nutritions. On regular basis 6-10 servings of grains and breads and two times fruit , more than 4 serving of vegetables and dairy products can be beneficial for you.

Whole grain breads and cereals , pasta and rice are fiber enriched foods so go for these.

Vitamins are also essential for you so for that you can choose vitamins supplements prescribed by your doctor.

1000-1300 mg of calcium intake is necessary  during pregnancy that you can take with minimum four serving of dairy products.

For approx 25 mg of iron intake daily minimum three servings of iron rich food like spinach, beans, lean meats and cereals are needed for you.

For iodine you can go for baked potatoes, yogurt , cooked navy beans  as well as sea food cod , salmon etc.

There is need to add one great source of folic acid in your regular diet for the same dark green leafy vegetables, veal, and legumes are recommended.

Do not forget to add carrots, turnip greens, beet greens, apricots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, spinach, water squash, and cantaloupe in your daily diet for vitamin A.

What not to eat?

Alcohol should be avoided completely during pregnancy as it can lead to birth defects and even premature delivery.

Limit caffeine in your diet it should not be more than 300 mg per day.

Do not include saccharin in your daily intake you can take non- nutritive and artificial sweeteners with the advice of doctors.

Avoid raw fish and soft cheese like feta, Brie, Camembert, blue-veined.

Laser Assisted Hatching

Laser assisted hatching (LAH) is a completely lab procedure to facilitate pregnancy by the attachment of embryo with the womb of women.

Sometime the shell covering the unfertilized egg named as zona pellucida gets harder which creates problem in pregnancy. As the harder zona pellucid leads to the create problem in hatching of the egg or use of excessive energy in getting out and attaching to the womb. So ultimately leads to complications in getting pregnant.

Laser assisted hatching procedure wonderful lab procedure that help the fertilized egg to get hatched and get attach to the womb. There are other methods also available to facilitate hatching which are acid and mechanical hatching of the single part of harder zona pellucida.

LAH is completely safe method to weaken the part of zona pellucida in which one part of zona pellucida is done weaken and then after the treatment of fertilized egg  with laser assisted hatching the embryo is transferred in the woman’s uterus.

Is LAH safe?

Recent researches have shown that laser assisted hatching is safer and increase the pregnancy rates. It does not cause any abnormality to the baby. Under this only the outer shell of the fertilized egg is treated without causing any harm to the embryo.

For whom laser assisted hatching can be beneficial

This method is simple, safe and advanced which really improves the chances of pregnancy so it can be beneficial in following cases.

 • Women having age above than maternal age that is more than 35

• Females having 3 day elevated follicle simulation hormone

• Weaker or slower developing embryos

• Abnormal or intense egg wall

• Females with more than one prior failed IVF cycles

• Females with having 3 day embryos but harder zona pellucida. • Embryos undergone through excessive disintegration

IVF Centre in India

IVF has become the last hope for many childless couples around the globe. IVF center in India have emerged over the years and become popular not only in India but, abroad as well. IVF or In Vitro Fertilization is the process of taking the egg from the women and fertilizing it with a sperm out of the womb and on fertilization to plant the egg back in to the womb so the mother can conceive a baby. Under a success rate of 35% to 50%, the implantation rate of embryos is extremely low or in terms of medical it is called a Failed IVF cycle.  

Though the failure in implantation of embryos is not certain nevertheless 95% of fertility surgeons believe it to be due to the Embryo arrest. But, now thanks to the latest technology known as Laser Assisted Hatching (AH) in which the womb can be attached by this technique has given hope for couples who have undergone failed IVF cycles. This technique is ideal for women who are above the age of 37 or who have been using high doses of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). 

The procedure is not so complex either. All that is required is the laser gets attached to the womb of the mother and a laser is used only 2-3 times that makes a hole in the egg big enough for the sperm to be fertilized. With this technique you do not have to remove the egg out for fertilization and the fertilization percentage is higher than removal fertilization. Even studies show compared women who agreed to go with Laser Assisted Hatching got pregnant even after number of failed IVF cycles. Also the procedure does not have any side effect as one would think so because of the use of Laser.  Many IVF center in India also offer Laser Assisted Hatching facility.

What is Infertility?

Infertility is an issue that nearly 6 out of every 10 couples face today. Infertility is an issue that involves issues in conceiving even after non-protected timely intercourse. Other reason can be undergone more than two miscarriages or you are below the age of 35.

Which side is the main Cause?

This question is basically asked as the mentality of people who are under-educated and/or rural minded believe the only cause is from the woman side but, reality is it is equal. Yes, the infertility ratio for men is equal to women at 30%, meaning 30% infertility cases are due to women and 30% cases are due to men while the rest 40% are due to both being infertile. 

How do you know you are Infertile?

Generally infertility is not a disease so it does not have any symptoms and if young couples on marriage consult a doctor or specialist before indulging in family planning nearly 60%-70% of infertility cases can be stopped. And the rest can be altered with regular doctor checkups.  If during a checkup any issue is found the doctor can prescribe a medication that will help you rather than having to opt for surgeries later on.

Endometriosis: can be cause of complex pregnancies.

Endometriosis is an issue many women face. When the endometriosis tissue is visible outisde the womb. This matter is very serious as it can even result in the miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. According to Dr. Lucky Saraswat, a consultant gynacologist at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in UK says patients with endometriosis are at a greater risk of enduring difficulties during the pregnancy and even miscarriage in some cases.

A reasonable study was done on a total of 14,655 women whether or not they were diagnosed with endometriosis to evaluate the results.  According to Dr. Saraswat  this is a slightly normal condition and at times is not known of as well. According to this study in comparision to the 8280 women who were not diagnosed with endometriosis and to the 5375 who were diagnosed with endometriosis were at a greater risk of complications during their pregnancy. In fact there was 76% risk of them suffering from miscarriage (odds ratio at 1.76) and were at three times at high risk of ectopic pregnancy (OR 2.7).

Even ladies with previous endometriosis issue are at risk of encountering issues like ante-and postpartum haemorrhage and preterm birth. Dr. Saraswat further says with certain care and counseling on endometroiosis concerning family planning and care during pregnancy can overcome this issue.