mumbai infertility treatment options come in handy for women even a fertile woman can postpone pregnancy by giving some of her eggs to a doctor for safekeeping when she gets the baby blues she can ask the doctor to fertilise her husbands sperm with the eggs setting her biological clock according to her time as it weresimilarly a man whose sperm doesnt travel down to his semen can still hope to have a child by having sperm extracted directly from his testes or epididymis where sperm is stored in transitin the west all manner of online and offline support groups for artificial reproduction or assisted reproductive techniques arts have popped up egg donors embryo adoption parents pursuing surrogacy mothers via egg donation and parents via sperm donation and if you dont fit into any of these theres the parentsatlast society which sweeps under its wings everybody who uses artificial means to have a babychanging demographics in india the art movement has seen a growth over the past decade across all socioeconomic classes the number of women on fertility drugs is increasing people are also more open to using donor sperms or eggsthe profile of women walking in for infertility treatment has changed marginally in the past two decades younger women more aware of the options available older women who married late or waited to put their careers in place and women who could not conceive 15 years ago because technologies such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection icsi were not availablemen too are more willing to get tested for infertility fifteen years ago they would take offence if you so much as suggested a test says gynaecologist with nair hospital c v hegde although some oldfashioned taboos remain in one case the man insisted on donor eggs though his wife was healthy he did not want to foster his wifes child through another man says a doctordr firuza parikh director of the department of assisted reproduction and genetics jaslok hospital cites the case of a 38yearold lady who refused to use donor eggs six years ago but is now game for itexperts say rural people too are crowding treatment centres they too know icsi is more advanced than ivf invitro fertilisation though they may not know the difference says infertility expert indira hindujareality check the silver lining has a cloud the flip side to immaculate conception outside the human body is that success rates usually do not cross 40 per cent the success of any implantation procedure for a woman above 40 years would be 1020 per cent says dr parikhthe technologies too have their limitations conception through frozen eggs for instance has a success rate of 10 per cent while even fresh eggs can be fertilised only about 30 per cent of the time says infertility expert hrishikesh pai similarly experts report a slight fall in pregnancy rates and a slightly higher incidence of miscarriage if sperm is sourced from the testes the first thing dr parikh tells her patients therefore