Any fertility treatment, including IVF, is most effectively approached when one prepares both their body and mind. For this reason, we at SCI IVF Hospital believe that one should make certain lifestyle changes before starting IVF. Here’s a guide to help you get ready.
- Nutrition and Diet
Eat a Balanced Diet: Emphasize fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats in your diet. A balanced diet contributes to the maintenance of healthy body weight and ensures delivery of necessary nutrients that assist in childbearing.
Limit Processed Foods: Reduce the intake of too many processed and high sugar-based foods. These may lead to weight gain and cause a negative effect on women’s hormonal balance.
Folic Acid Supplement: The patient is advised to commence folic acid supplementation according to instructions from the physician. Folic acid is one of the important factors for the baby’s development, since it helps reduce the incidence of neural tube defects.
Hydration: Drink a lot of water, it helps to keep your body properly hydrated for proper body functions.
- Maintain a Healthy Weight
Body mass index: You are supposed to ensure your body mass index is within the healthy level. Quite other than that, underweight or overweight will affect your fertility and consequently the efficacy of the various interventions of IVF treatment.
Regular Exercise: Moderate exercise in a woman’s life—like walking, swimming, or yoga—should also be made an integral part of her routine. It is absolutely necessary for maintaining a good weight and reducing stress, which are important factors in surviving the IVF process.
- Avoid harmful substances
Quit Smoking/Smoking: The act of smoking is harmful to male as well as female fertility. It adversely affects the chances of conception and ultimately increases the risks of pregnancy.
Limit Alcohol Intake: Alcohol can adversely affect fertility. It is best to cut down or stop drinking altogether when planning for IVF.
Avoid Caffeine: High levels of caffeine are related to reduced fertility. Limit your intake to one cup of coffee or tea a day.
- Healthy Ways to Handle Stress and Mental Health
Mindfulness practices: Engage in mindfulness practices such as meditation or deep breathing, exercises that help people manage stress and keep their emotional well-being positive.
Counseling and Support: Seek counseling or even attend a support group. Counseling and support groups really make a difference; for increased efficacy, IVF treatment rarely feels lonely.
- Medication Review
Ask Your Doctor: Before undergoing IVF, check with your doctor about any kind of medication you may be on at that point. Some medications might not augur well for the process of enhanced fertility treatment, and the doctor might need to modify them.
- Regular Check-ups
Pre-IVF Screening: A proper general health examination, including the laboratory—investigations like blood tests, ultrasound, and other relevant tests with a health service provider, to identify any underlying issues that could affect the success of IVF.
- Sleep Enough
Adequate Sleep: Have 7-8 hours of sleep every day. Adequate sleep is essential to maintain the balance of hormones and contribute to general health, factors that are key in fertility.
Conclusion
All these tips can make a huge difference in your success rate if adopted by you in incorporating lifestyle modification prior to initiation of IVF at SCI IVF Hospital. Individual reminder—every case is different and requires as close an involvement with your health professional as you can manage in order to personalize all these suggestions. These tips can not only make fertility better but prepare your body for a healthy pregnancy.
