Stress & Fertility

met_at_the_ball

Hi, I thought I would share an article which pretty much tells us what we hate to hear, "just relax,"  but a study of British women seems to show stress and fertility a have a causal relationship. If it's true, I think I'm doomed, pressure at work and stress of TTC can get to me and right during ovulation and 2ww, too! 

Most intriguing in the article is that the egg may actually travel more slowly down the tube for implantation during stress. 

https://tinyurl.com/25kc6yx

 

 

dianah36

It's really amazing what stress can do to your body.

manny506

Thanks for sharing this! I saw this study discussed on CNN last month. After 8 months of fertility treatment, I've started doing yoga last week and plan to do it at least 1x per week to see if that helps to deal with the TTC stress and maybe even increase probability of pregnancy. Fingers crossed!

lhcooper

Thumbs up on the yoga.  I have been doing it pretty seriously since January (well, at least twice a week, sometimes more) and did it all through a terrible illness and have kept doing it.  Can't say it's helped me to conceive (since I was sick, I couldn't anyway), but here's hoping it helps now!

boymamaco

You are right, its not what any one wants to hear but there is definitely some validity to it. Maybe not for everyone but if we are trying to many other pathways, why not also try to eliminate undue stress as well.

I'm actually in school studying holistic nutrition (just first two classes thus far.) We are focusing on "the biology of belief." Basically that our thoughts have immense control over our biochemistry. Positive thoughts create more favorable conditions and negative thoughts more likely lead to degeneration. The studies we are reviewing are in relation to eliminating cancer, tumors, fibromyalgia, not getting pregnant, but I have to wonder why it wouldnt work on getting pregnant too.

Sorry I hope that made sense. I just got out of a really exciting class. LOL Anyways, my plan is to focus each day on 5 things that I'm grateful for and focus on more positive thinking. I know it sounds hokey but give it a try!

met_at_the_ball

I like your attitude lucyspeople, in fact being grateful has been my new mantra for the past month!

CityPixie

Interesting.  Frustrating too.  I'm pretty sure anxiety and stress are real and actual side effects of some of the very drugs we're taking to get PG!  For me with the Follistim I could just weep right now for no reason. All out. But I'll try to laugh about it and unstress.