A couple should visit an infertility clinic only if they fail to get pregnant after trying for 12 months. There are some exceptions when a couple needs to visit before 12 months. The first one is irregular cycles, which means that the periods are longer than 45 days to 3 months. The second one is […]
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Following your visit to a gynaecologist or an infertility specialist sometimes, they say your ovaries are smaller. Every woman is born with a fixed number of eggs and they start declining as they reach menopause. At the time of their first menstrual cycle, there are close to 400 000 eggs and by the time they
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Thyroid hormone disturbance is very common in women than in men. And it constitutes between 3 to 10 percent out of every 100 women. In the area of reproductive medicine, the common hormones we check are the thyroid hormone, the prolactin hormone and in the ovarian reserves, we check the AMH levels. Here I’ll be
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In a semen analysis report, sometimes you find a word called teratozoospermia. What we essentially look at, is the volume, the count, the motility, and the quality of the sperm which is also known as morphology. When the morphology of the sperm is abnormal, then we say teratozoospermia. The sperm has 3 components, the head,
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In a natural pregnancy, if 100 couples conceive 15 to 20 of them lose the pregnancy. Abortion happens for various reasons. The most common cause for abortion in a woman who conceives normally is an abnormal genetic material also known as aneuploidy. It is nature’s quality control to prevent an abnormal pregnancy or abnormal baby
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Ovary reserves are assessed by a test called Anti Mullerian Hormone. In conventional language or the Doctor’s language, it is also known as AMH Hormone. This is a blood test done to check the ovarian reserves of a woman. AMH is a beautiful hormone that is very accurate and it has no day-to-day variability and
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An obese male who has come to the infertility clinic has a higher chance of having an abnormal semen analysis, be it in terms of count, motility, or quality when compared to men who have a normal BMI. The 2nd aspect is these men who are obese have a higher chance of diabetes and male
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A woman who is obese, in other words, has a BMI of more than 30 has a higher chance of having a miscarriage, otherwise known as abortion when compared to a woman with a normal BMI. The 2nd thing is they are at a higher risk of diabetes during pregnancy which is also known as
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A woman having a BMI of more than 30 will take more months to conceive when compared to a woman having a BMI of 25. That means the probability of having infertility is higher when the BMI is more than 30. The 2nd situation is obese women are more proven to have irregular cycles and
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When a man or woman has a BMI of more than 30, then we say it is obesity. When it is more than 35 we say severe obesity. And when it is more than 40, we say morbid obesity. Obesity is to be considered as one extreme health problem. A lot of people do not
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A normal body mass index is between 18 to 25. Anyone with a body mass index between 25 and 30 is considered overweight but not obese. BMI above 30 is considered obesity. https://vimeo.com/717774327
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If we check the weight of a woman, say somebody has a weight of 70 KGs and a height of 5′-10″. Another woman who is also 70 KGs but only 5′-2″ in height. There is a significant difference between both of them though the weight is the same. Because of this, the scientific community has
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