Second IVF cycles are often much easier to do than the first cycle, because the first cycle is full of anxiety as well as fear of the unknown, and patients are never sure what's going to happen. By the time you've done one cycle, even if that cycle has failed, at leas......

It can be incredibly frustrating when a high-quality embryo fails to implant in what seems to be an ideally receptive endometrium, leaving both patients and doctors searching for answers. This entire area is not well-understood, which is why various approaches are bei......

Many young women today are active and in top physical condition. Because they're flexible, supple, and able to run marathons, they also automatically assume that their egg health is also good, and their ovaries will be in good condition, as a result of which they will......

As IVF doctors, we often believe that highly educated patients (MBAs or IT engineers), know a lot about their reproductive system. But sometimes this turns out to be a dangerous assumption because many of them are completely clueless about human reproductive biology.......

As an IVF doctor, I'm still quite amazed by how little, even highly educated women understand about how their reproductive organs work and how little they understand about their menstrual cycles and fertility. For example, one of the common misconceptions which women......

Many young women are now aware of the fact that ovaries age at a very different rate from the rest of their body. The bitter truth is there is very little correlation between their calendar age and their ovarian age. Even if they are 35 and in top physical condition w......

Overview: Following an unsuccessful IVF round, patients frequently want to know why the cycle didn't work out and frequently hold the doctor responsible. However, in Indian clinics, a subpar doctor is typically the most frequent cause of IVF failure. It's concerning......

We have all heard about virgin births, but did you know there's something like a virgin father? Let me explain. Virgin births are not uncommon in the animal kingdom. This involves a process called parthenogenesis (a bit of a mouthful), where an unfertilized egg starts......

One of the common causes of childlessness is sexual dysfunction. But this is often the elephant in the room, which no one talks about, for multiple reasons. Most gynecologists who treat these couples for their “ infertility “ don't even bother to take a proper histor......

Patients understandably get very frustrated when their top quality embryo doesn't implant in what looks like a perfect endometrium and they demand answers from their doctor. But the reality is just that this is as frustrating for doctors as it is for patients because......