In the Indian society child-birth after a marriage is still considered a completion of a family cycle. This interference of the family members and the society gets so severe that a woman tends to completely lose her importance until she proves herself to be fertile even if she possesses other qualities in her. The objectives of this study are whether the women in Kolkata feel that child-bearing is an important task of their marriage, whether the women face any social stigma for not having a baby and whether the women give their consent to adopt the advanced techno-medical means like egg-freezing or IVF for having a baby after marriage which might even affect their physical well-being. 20 married women of Kolkata over 27 years of age were interviewed through an in-depth open-ended questionnaire and snowball non-probability sampling were adopted to conduct the study. The study revealed how the women themselves have chosen to visit the doctors to know about their gynaecological status after the prolonged agony for delay in child-birth. The respondents have succumbed to the expected gender roles in the society after marriage. The common reason behind this attitude was their gender socialization. Indian women are aware how infertility develops a stigma for them and how her womanhood is questioned in the in-laws, at her neighbourhood and elsewhere. The advanced medical technologies today make them aspire to become mothers and they readily do not want to accept the subtle rejection of the society. So it highlights how a life is restored more for its procreation cababilities and the other health hazards like cardio-vascular diseases, cancer vulnerability,bone damages and more are ignored for a woman. She is belittled, thought useless and barred from several religious rituals for evading from her 'prime' role as a 'mother'.
