If you ask a person what factors affect their ability to have children, they will answer two things first: Age and stress
The first is more than proven and there is no doubt about it, however it seems that for the second there is not so much evidence and it is possible that it is based on a myth that extends especially (and reaffirms) when a woman becomes pregnant just When you stop looking for a pregnancy.
In the absence of evidence to show that stress affects fertility, a group of researchers from Cardiff Fertility Studies Research Group have done a study to Know what relationship exists between women's stress and fertility and have come to conclude that such relationship does not exist.
For this, they have carried out a review of fourteen studies related to the subject, obtaining a total sample of 3,583 infertile women undergoing a cycle of fertility treatment.
These women were evaluated before carrying out the fertility treatment in order to know their levels of anxiety and stress. Then the data of pregnancies were achieved and failed to make the comparison and thus know what relationship there is between stress and pregnancy.
The results showed that anxiety and stress do not affect women when they get pregnant, that is, that women who suffered from anxiety or high stress at the time of receiving fertility treatments became pregnant in the same proportion as those who did not suffer from it. In the words of Jacky Boivin, director of the study:
These findings should reassure women that emotional distress caused by fertility problems or other vital events that occur with treatment will not affect their chances of becoming pregnant.
These results are, without hard, good news, because it eliminates in women the anguish that appears when a woman feels stress about not getting pregnant (you know, that of “I am stressed because I can not get pregnant, and how I know that being stressed is not good for a pregnancy, I get even more stressed ”).
However, the myth must be so ingrained that it costs me, personally, to get rid of it like this, so fast. What do you think?
