Fertility

The safe-period method is the most used and least reliable contraception in India. Here is how the counting actually works — and how often it does not.

Period pain without a period is common and has a long list of explanations, most of them harmless and two of them emergencies. Here is how to tell them apart.

Elaborate advice circulates about positions, pillows and lying still for an hour. Almost none of it changes anything, and one popular method is illegal in India.

Conceiving after 40 happens naturally every day, and it gets harder every year. Here are the honest numbers, the risks worth planning for, and what pregnancy in the fifties actually requires.

Almost every Indian family has a fertility remedy. A few have real evidence, most are harmless but unproven, and several are genuinely risky. Here is the sorted list.

A cycle is a monthly report on the body's hormones, thyroid, weight and stress. Irregularity is common, usually explainable, and worth investigating rather than tolerating for years.

Assisted reproduction in India is now large, expensive and — since 2021 — regulated. Here is what each treatment involves, what to expect from it, and what to ask before paying.

Contraception in India is overwhelmingly the woman's job, and the safest permanent method is the one men almost never choose. Here is the honest inventory.

The male half of fertility is tested in a single inexpensive step and skipped in far too many Indian couples. Here is what the test measures and what actually changes the result.

Your body signals ovulation clearly once you know what to look for — and the free signs are more useful than most of the products sold alongside them.

PCOS is the commonest hormonal disorder in women of reproductive age and one of the most common reasons for difficulty conceiving in India. It is manageable, and most women with it who want a baby have one.

There is no single correct gap between children. There is a set of things worth sorting out first, and they are not all medical.

Conceiving once does not guarantee conceiving again — and secondary infertility gets less sympathy and less investigation than it deserves.

Around one couple in six has difficulty conceiving. Most causes are identifiable and many are treatable — and the first step is a set of tests that both partners should take together.

The three months before conception shape the pregnancy more than most of the nine months after. Here is the whole checklist — and half of it is for the man.

Most couples conceive within a year, and most of what is sold to speed it up does nothing. Here is what actually matters — timing, health, and knowing when a year is too long to wait.