Have you ever been on friends with someone who has been trying to conceive for years? Eventually the couple turns to adoption in some way are in the process of adoption or immediately after the child comes home the woman becomes pregnant. “Relax and it will happen” is advice that is often given to women who are having trouble with conception.
But, it is far too simplistic to say that stress either does or does not play a role in fertility. Women have become pregnant in far more stressful situations than what individuals in industrialized nations considered to be stressed today. In countries where there is open warfare and starvation conditions women continue to become pregnant.
The number of people who really and will never be able to conceive is actually fairly small. And, while stress does play a role in infertility it should never be considered in the same category as endometriosis. More than anything, stress will injure sex drive and the production of sperm in the development of the egg. In some instances stress can delay ovulation, and if it is severe or it can prevent ovulation in a specific month. However, this is not a situation which is consistent from month to month but rather something that can affect fertility on a month by month basis.
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