Top most Gynecologist Fertility Specialist in Hyderabad | Dr. Rinkee Tiwari

                                          Why Are Couples Taking Longer To Conceive

Once upon a time, getting pregnant was a straightforward affair. A couple eager to start a family would try and conceive in a jiffy and live happily ever after. But unfortunately, things have changed. Now, conceiving is all about calculating, tracking and timing.

Recent years have seen fertility rates on a steady downward trend, not just in India but across the world. According to the research conducted by the Indian Society of Assisted Reproduction, infertility affects 10-14 per cent of the population, which approximately rounds up to 30 million people of both genders. The numbers go even higher in urban areas, where 1 in 6 couples have issues conceiving. So the big question is - what has caused things to change so drastically?, Obstetrician & Gynecologist Dr Rinki Tiwari, an infertility specialist from Hyderabad highlights on how contemporary lifestyle is the cause of declining fertility and what is the scientific approach to pregnancy.

Evolving Lifestyles, Declining Fertility
The rapid evolution of lifestyle over the past few decades has introduced a host of issues which are detrimental to overall health. Infertility being one of them. Poor lifestyle choices have increasingly affected couples’ chances of conceiving.

Unhealthy dietary habits and a resultant upswing in obesity, increasingly sedentary work lives combined with erratic work hours, sleep deprivation, and rise in stress have a profound impact on the fertility levels in both men and women.

What’s more, with more women entering the workforce, planned delays in marriage and parenthood are inevitable, thereby reducing the possibility of successful pregnancies and increasing the likelihood of complications/miscarriages. Changing lifestyles have also disrupted natural fertility cycles and caused hormonal imbalances like Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), affecting one in five women of reproductive age.

Research has shown that hormonal imbalances can further be worsened by prolonged exposure to high levels of physical and psychological stress, a frequent occurrence in today’s highly competitive environment. Women suffering from sleep disorders such as chronic insomnia and apnea are also more likely to suffer from infertility, due to the heightened likelihood of irregular or missed periods.

All in all, lifestyle disorders have had such a massive impact on women’s menstrual cycles that only around 15 per cent report a standard 28-day cycle. Irregular periods have also caused many women to become anovulatory, a condition in which menstruation isn’t followed by the release of an egg. This combined with the fact that you can only get pregnant during fertile days (which is a maximum of 6 days in every cycle), tracking exact ovulation days isn’t a piece of cake.

Despite these myriad shifts in lifestyle, couples are still calculating and predicting ovulation dates manually, no wonder pregnancy rates are drastically lower!

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