Frequently Asked
Questions

During your first consultation, our fertility specialists review your medical history, diagnostic reports and personal goals to recommend the most suitable treatment — whether IVF, IUI, ICSI or a tailored combination plan.

Our success rates are among the highest in the region, with consistent outcomes across IVF, ICSI and IUI treatments. We provide transparent, data-driven results tailored to each patient's profile.

A typical IVF cycle takes approximately 4 to 6 weeks from the start of ovarian stimulation to embryo transfer. Your doctor will provide a personalised timeline during your initial consultation.

Yes. All treatments follow strict clinical protocols in a state-of-the-art facility. We also maintain complete confidentiality — your records and treatment details are never shared without your consent.

Yes, we offer flexible payment plans and EMI options to make fertility treatment more accessible. Our team will guide you through available financing options during your consultation.

You can book online through our website, call us directly, or walk in to our Gurugram clinic. Our team will schedule a convenient time and guide you on documents to bring for your first visit.

Yes. We provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment for both partners, including male factor testing, hormonal assessment, and advanced procedures such as ICSI and surgical sperm retrieval when needed.

Yes. We offer egg freezing, embryo freezing and fertility preservation services using advanced vitrification technology, helping you plan parenthood at the right time for your life and health.

Most patients continue their daily routine and work during treatment. Some stages may require short clinic visits or a brief rest period after procedures — your doctor will advise what works best for your schedule.

Pre-IVF evaluation typically includes blood tests, ultrasound scans, semen analysis (if applicable), and hormonal profiling for both partners. These help us design a safe, personalised protocol for the best possible outcome.

We are located at 7505 Basement Bougainville Street, near Supermart 2, Sector 43, Gurugram, Haryana 122009. Ample parking and easy access from major roads make visits convenient for couples across NCR.

For some things, in some situations, yes. Take weight-related ovulation problems. A structured drop in body weight can respond meaningfully, and it sometimes restores ovulation with no medication at all. Stopping smoking helps. So does cutting alcohol, and dealing with heat exposure where sperm quality is the concern. All of that has real evidence behind it. The catch worth keeping in mind is that lifestyle changes work where lifestyle is part of the problem. They will not open a blocked tube or reverse non-obstructive azoospermia.

Either end of the BMI range can pull reproductive hormones off balance. Carrying a lot of extra weight tends to bring insulin resistance, higher androgen levels and cycles without ovulation, and that is especially the case with PCOS. At the other extreme, being very underweight lowers oestrogen and can switch ovulation off entirely. The encouraging bit is that shifting body weight by even 5 to 10 percent toward a healthier range is enough to restore ovulation in a good number of women, before any medication is on the table.

Yes, and measurably so. Smoking is tied to a lower ovarian reserve for your age, meaning lower AMH, to weaker fertilisation in IVF, and to a higher miscarriage risk. It hits both partners, not just the woman. The effect climbs with how much you smoke, and it does ease off over time once you stop, though sperm in particular takes several months to catch up.

Moderate drinking does not hit fertility as hard as smoking does. Heavy drinking is a different matter, and it gets linked to hormonal disruption, poorer sperm quality and a higher chance of miscarriage. While you are actually in treatment, and an IVF cycle especially, the standard advice is simply to leave alcohol alone.

No one food and no single diet has been shown to cause or cure infertility. That said, some eating patterns do line up with better reproductive outcomes. The one that keeps turning up in the fertility-and-diet research is a Mediterranean-style diet, heavy on vegetables, whole grains, legumes and healthy fats, lighter on processed food and red meat. Separately, folic acid before conception, about 400 to 800 mcg a day, is specifically recommended to cut the risk of neural tube defects.

The link between stress and fertility gets overstated in casual advice, but it is not made up either. Extreme psychological stress can disrupt the hormonal axis that governs ovulation in some women. What it does not do is cause infertility in couples who have a clear underlying diagnosis. Telling those couples to "relax and it will happen" is both wrong and unhelpful. Psychological support during treatment is genuinely worth having, on its own merits, just not as a treatment in itself.

The honest position is that the evidence is thinner than the marketing makes out. CoQ10 has some data pointing to a modest lift in egg and embryo quality during IVF for women with a diminished reserve, though it does not raise AMH or bring back egg quantity. DHEA is more of a mixed bag, with the stronger signals showing up in older patients specifically. Neither one should be started without running it past Dr. Lekhi first. DHEA especially, because it moves androgen levels and can backfire in some situations.

Light to moderate exercise, so walking, swimming, a bit of yoga, is generally fine and can even help through most stages of treatment. What tends to get paused is the high-intensity stuff, and anything that pounds the abdomen, during ovarian stimulation and after an embryo transfer, when the ovaries are enlarged and the uterus is being readied for implantation. Dr. Lekhi will give you specifics based on your own protocol.

Most people work through the bulk of a cycle. The two days that usually call for time off are egg retrieval and the transfer. During stimulation there are monitoring appointments, generally early-morning ultrasounds, that may need fitting around your job, and the team can talk through timing to keep the disruption to a minimum where possible.

Through most phases of treatment, it is fine. The exception is the stimulation phase of an IVF cycle. Once several large follicles are present, intercourse is usually advised against, to avoid the small chance of a natural multi-follicle conception happening outside the IVF process. After the transfer, the advice varies, and Dr. Lekhi will tell you what applies to your cycle.

It does. Sperm quality, so the count, the movement and the shape, takes a direct hit from smoking, heavy drinking, heat (laptops on laps, hot tubs, tight clothing), anabolic steroids and obesity. And because sperm takes roughly three months to finish its production cycle, the ideal is to make lifestyle changes at least three months ahead of a planned IVF cycle, so the sperm actually used has had time to reflect them.

For a change to show up in a semen analysis, around three months is the usual timeline. Weight changes are different, the benefit to ovulatory function or stimulation response builds up over time, so earlier is simply better, though meaningful shifts can happen within weeks to a couple of months depending on how much changes. The general rule is that starting the moment treatment is being considered beats waiting until the cycle is nearly upon you.

Call or WhatsApp +91 73037 08364 to reach Dr. Lekhi's team and set up a first appointment. You do not need a referral letter or any previous fertility records to book, though it does help to bring along whatever test results you already have.

Bring any earlier fertility test results you have, so hormone reports, semen analyses, ultrasound or HSG reports, and a short summary of any treatment cycles you have already done. If you are coming in after treatment somewhere else, those cycle records let Dr. Lekhi work from your actual history instead of starting from scratch. And if your schedule allows it, having your partner at that first visit is a good idea.

Reckon on 45 minutes to an hour for a first consultation. That is enough time to go through your history properly, work out which investigations actually apply to your case, and get through the questions you have walked in with. Once a plan is in place, follow-up appointments are usually shorter.

Where it is possible, yes. Male factors are in the picture for about half of all infertility cases, and the plan is worked out for the two of you together, so having both partners there from the start means the whole picture is on the table. It also saves a second appointment later just to fill in things that could have been covered first time round.

Dr. Lekhi goes through your existing records, so the test results, the diagnosis and any treatment history, before the appointment rather than reading them cold with you sitting there. The consultation itself then looks at whether the diagnosis and the treatment you have been offered actually fit the evidence for your case, and what, if anything, might be worth approaching differently.

Give the team a call or WhatsApp on +91 73037 08364 and they will check what is currently open. Availability at any clinic shifts from week to week with patient numbers, and they can usually tell you the earliest slot on that same call.

No. A first consultation can happen at any point in your cycle. Some of the tests that make up a fertility assessment are timing-specific, FSH and LH are best drawn on day 2 or 3, and an HSG is done after your period in the first half of the cycle, but those get scheduled after the consultation. They are not something you need in place beforehand.

Once she has been through your history, Dr. Lekhi recommends the investigations that suit your case, not a fixed panel handed to everyone, but the particular tests your situation points to. Depending on the test, results usually come back within a few days to a couple of weeks, and a follow-up consultation goes through the findings with you and sets out the treatment plan.

Call or WhatsApp +91 73037 08364 to ask what consultation formats are open at the moment. Some parts of a fertility consultation, reviewing existing results and talking through treatment options, work perfectly well remotely. A physical examination and the investigations do need you to come in.

Through the stimulation phase, which runs roughly 10 to 12 days, you are generally in every 2 to 3 days for monitoring ultrasounds and blood tests. The visits get closer together toward the end, as the follicles approach trigger size. These tend to be early-morning appointments. Egg retrieval and the transfer are each a single-day thing.

Best to confirm the current hours with the team when you call to book. Hours can change, so checking at the time you schedule is more reliable than going off something that may already be out of date.

Blood hormone results are usually ready within 1 to 3 working days, and Dr. Lekhi reviews them before they are shared, so you get them in a follow-up consultation or call with some context, not just raw numbers landing in your inbox. Semen analysis is back in about the same time. Genetic testing, so PGT-A or karyotyping, takes longer, usually 2 to 3 weeks depending on the lab. Whenever a test is ordered, the team will tell you the expected timeline for that particular one.