Medical curriculum and care has come a long way since the days when all efforts were concerted towards the mother in the hope that it would reflect on the well being of the fetus and then the baby. With rapid advances made, the natural processes are being aesthetically reproduced and unnatural events are corrected.

Hence a childless couple does not have to spend anxious days / months waiting for the visit of the proverbial stork. Reproductive medicine is a specialized field imparting within its realm, the knowledge and advances in fertility/infertility, and fetal medicine, which is inclusive of prenatal diagnosis.