New Delhi, July 11 -- justify;">In this modern era, more and more couples are deciding to put pregnancy on pause while they focus on their careers, take time to travel and work towards financial stability but the path to pregnancy often gets harder the longer we wait.

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Shubha L, Infertility Specialist at GarbhaGudi IVF Centre, explained, "Having only a finite number of oocytes, females do not produce new gametes throughout their lifetime unlike men. Women have about 1 to 2 million oocytes at birth, at puberty it varies from 300,000 - 500,000, and 25,000 at the age of 37 and around 1000 by the time they are 51. Maximum chances of pregnancy would be in the reproductive age of 21-30 years. The egg qualit...