Infertility & pregnancy

Now that the vaccination is a must for everyone, and I'm planning for pregnancy, I want to know will the vaccination affect my fertility profile?

Dear Manasa,

With couples working from home in this current situation, I’m sure you get more time to spend with each other, but there is also the pressure of work. Like for most couples, initially the lockdown was a relief for us, but now we are already waiting to step out and travel. Being by yourselves at home, the craving for a child hits strongly.

If both of you feel ready to take on this new step, then speak to a trusted gynaec and a fertility specialist, and see what treatment options you need to opt for. It would be safer if you get vaccinated before starting the infertility treatment.

I wish you success and the joy of parenthood

This current trend of staying at home and working is going on and so I’m thinking of getting pregnant. Is it ok to plan for infertility treatment at this time, or do we have to wait till the pandemic is over?

IVF is commonly known as ‘test-tube baby’. It involves stimulating the ovaries to make multiple eggs grow and then taking the eggs out of the woman, fertilizing them in the laboratory with her partner’s sperm, and transferring embryos back to her uterus. Egg + sperm form an embryo. The embryo implants in the uterus to grow into a baby.

The first IVF baby in the world (Louise Brown) was born in July of 1978 in England. Louise Brown was 28 when she delivered her own baby in 2006. Her baby was conceived by IVF. Hundreds of thousands of children are now born annually as a result of the IVF technique.

IVF is the process by which the sperm fertilizes the egg outside the uterine cavity, outside the Fallopian tube in the lab and that is the reason why it’s called in vitro fertilization.

This procedure is advised after simple fertility treatments have failed and sometimes we tend to advise it directly in patients who have or in women who have both tubes blocked or in men who have a total motile sperm count of less than 5 million.