7 Fertility Myths Busted
There is a lot of conflicting information out there about what can help you get pregnant as well as what can impede pregnancy. Check out these 7 common myths which might be getting in the way of success!
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Get in Shape to Improve Your Fertility
Get into optimal shape and good health now.
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How to Financially Prepare for a Baby
A family's financial landscape is dramatically altered when a baby arrives.
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What Are Causes of Spotting?
What are the possible causes of spotting?
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Separating Mother from Baby After Birth Causes Stress
Immediately after birth most infants are rushed off to the nursery or
placed in a bassinet beside mom. According to researchers, separating
infants from their mothers causes stress.
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Can Stress Stop You From Getting Pregnant?
While stress has not been directly linked to infertility, the physical demands on the body during stressful situations are enough to trigger natural protective instincts.
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Can Stress Increase the Chances of Stillbirth?
A National Institutes of Health network study found that stressful
events up to a year before becoming pregnant can make women more likely
to have a stillbirth.
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Kids, Stress and Pregnancy
The average family has two to three children. That means at least once in your life you are likely to be pregnant with one or more children in the home. Raising children is one of the most empowering, stressful life events. Stress can lead to pregnancy complications.
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How to Deal with Your Mother-in-Law
If you're lucky, your mother-in-law will be very helpful when you are pregnant. Yet some MILs can test your boundaries and your patience. Here's how to deal with your mother-in-law!
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Stressed During Pregnancy? Try Yoga
When you are stressed, your body automatically adjusts itself to handle
the stressful environment. Our bodies do this instinctively, because
thousands of years ago, stress usually did imply that we were in
immediate danger of death.
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Prenatal Exposure to Stress Affect the Transmission of Genes
Stress does a lot to our bodies, but it can also affect your baby as well. Stress is a broad term used to describe the physical and emotional strain that can often have an adverse effect on our health in general.
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Stress and Anxiety in Pregnancies with Fetal Malformations
Researchers in Brazil recently tested several psychological intervention techniques to reduce stress and anxiety in pregnant women with known fetal malformations. Sixty-five women were included in the study.
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2008-8: Stress in Pregnancy Linked to Schizophrenia in Child
Pregnancy is quite a crucial time for the mother as well as the growing baby. It's well-known fact that mothers during this time should be taken well care of, physically as well mentally, for if this is not done, it can adversely affect the health of the unborn child.
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Miscarriage Risk Increases with Sustained Stress
Multiple research studies have investigated the impact of short-term,
intense stress on pregnancy, but little is known about the effect of
prolonged stress like that felt by women affected by the stresses of
military or political life.
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Mom's Stress May Increase Baby's Asthma and Allergy Risk
SUNDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- If an expectant mother is exposed to high levels of stress, her baby may be more likely to develop asthma or allergies later in life, new research suggests.
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Behavioral Development Impacted by Maternal Stress
During their pregnancies, both of my sisters had their own unique ways of coping with the stress. One tried aromatherapy, another tried bubble baths, and both methods seemed to work for them.
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Mindfulness Training May Ease IVF Stress
A British researcher thinks mindfulness training might prove instrumental in easing the loneliness and emotional stress associated with IVF.
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Study Finds Baby’s Stress Level Elevates When Mom’s Does
To test the emotional contagion theory, a team of researchers enlisted a group of mothers and their infants. Sure enough, the babies picked right up on their mothers' stress.
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How Mom Can Pass Stress to Her Baby Through Placenta
Mothers may pass stress onto their babies two different ways, according to new studies. Findings show that mothers could pass the damaging effects of stress onto their newborns through their placentas and through bacteria in their vaginas.
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Stress During Pregnancy May Mean You’re Having a Girl – and Early!
The online journal Human Reproduction has published the results of a study linking stress during pregnancy to early birth and an increased chance of having a girl.
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Hormones Impact Stress, Memories, Understanding Social Cues
New research shows an unexpected link between sex hormones and cognitive
function, such as memory and interpreting social cues, in females.
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Alcohol, Drug Use, Smoking, and Stress During Pregnancy
Certain stress factor can pose a problem when trying to conceive and during pregnancy.
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How to Reduce Stress at Work While Pregnant
Stress is part of work and home life. There is no way to avoid stress altogether, but there are ways of minimizing stress and the effect of stress on pregnancy, especially in a work setting.
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Does Anxiety Affect Semen Quality?
The study, completed by researchers at European Hospital in Rome, claims
state and trait anxiety affect sperm volume, concentration, count and
motility.
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Yoga and Meditation Genetically Tame Stress of Infertility
A psychiatrist is using modern genetic technologies to track changes in the body that occur when individuals engage in yoga and meditation for just a few minutes a day.
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Stress Affects Sperm, Semen Quality; Fertility Suffers
A new study suggests too much stress does a lot more damage than merely taking fun out of life. It can affect a man’s fertility by diminishing the quality of the sperm and semen he produces.
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Top 5 Ways to Combat Stress During Pregnancy
Research authors and experts are consistently writing informed articles and publishing medical journal entries on the overall effects of stress on the body. Stress offers no positive effects on overall health for any person, let alone a pregnant woman.
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How Reducing Stress Helps Improve Fertility
Stress plays a huge effect on people's overall health. Besides that, it has been proven that a woman's stress levels can play a big role in conceiving a child as well as in the development of the child if she is already pregnant.
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How to Budget the Baby's First Year
Learning to budget for the baby's first year can ease stress and help one avoid going into serious debt.
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Preventing the Negative Effects of Stress on Pregnancy
Stress is a mental condition that causes a very physical response. The last time you felt 'stressed' what were you really saying? Stress quickens heart rate, increases blood pressure, and decreases blood flow to extremities. The body physically prepares to fight a battle or run for extended distances.
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Stillbirth Risk Increases with Stressful Pregnancy
The impact of stress on health and well-being is widely reported in medical literature. Information collected from the National Institutes of Health suggests stress may be to blame for stillbirth.
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Link Between Stress and Miscarriage
During pregnancy, prolonged or extreme stress will result in immediate effects on the body, but the long-term effects may be life-changing. Researchers have linked stress early in pregnancy to increased risk of miscarriage.
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Pregnant or Want To Be? You Must Lessen Your Stress
Many pregnant women are under stress. Coping with stress in pregnancy is important to improve pregnancy outcome.
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The Effects of Stress on Fertility
Stress is one of nature's natural contraceptives and can have a dramatic effect on healthy reproduction. The major stress hormone, cortisol, is derived from progesterone.
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Ease Holiday Stress During Pregnancy
Minimizing stress is important to your baby's health and your own.
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Stress Can Reduce Fertility
A study was done linking stress levels to infertility. According to the report, women who have higher than normal stress levels could have more difficulty conceiving.
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Combating Worry: A Guide for Parents
Many parents describe feeling overwhelmed with a sense of worry. Left unchecked this can lead to sleep disturbance, depression, lack of focus, health and relationship problems and seriously affect your bonding with your child.
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How Teacher Stress Affects Your Child
Teachers play a huge role in our children’s lives. While most parents are painfully aware that their own stress affects their child, they rarely consider the effects if teachers’ stress. From the age of 5 to 18 children spend about 1000 hours, each year, in school. ... read more »
Improving HER Fertility
Medical studies are providing new information all the time that can help women improve their fertility. Changing certain behaviors is the first step to improving your overall fertility.
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Choline May Protect Baby for Life
Recently, researchers from Cornell University revealed another important
piece of the pregnancy nutrition / fetal health puzzle. According to
their research, choline consumption during pregnancy is directed
related to the long-term health of the child.
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Donʼt Let These 6 Pregnancy Symptoms Fake You Out
These six symptoms of pregnancy are classic but they don't always represent a pregnancy.
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Dr.Grunebaum on CNN
Dr.Grunebaum on CNN - Stress in Pregnancy
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Hurricane Exposure: Impact on Fetal Stress
Women and infants who lived through Hurricane Andrew may help predict the long-term effects of hurricanes on health.
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Prenatal Yoga - Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)
Warrior II, like Warrior I, is a challenging all-over body strengthener used in prenatal and non-prenatal yoga. Warrior II is also a deep hip and upper body opener and has been said to alleviate backaches during pregnancy to increase fertility.
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SSRIs May Not Help Adults Who Had Early Life Stress
Unfortunately, SSRIs don’t work for everybody. Dr. Jeremy D. Coplan noticed SSRIs often don’t work on depression patients who had experienced early life stresses.
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Prenatal Yoga - Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I)
Warrior I is a strengthening, stretching, and even a bit of a balancing pose, that can inspire confidence and power in its practitioner. Practice Warrior I after warming up your body, during the higher intensity portion of your yoga workout.
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A Mother’s Depression May Affect Baby
Researchers have found a connection between depression in pregnant women and physical effects on infants. The effects noted include reduced muscle tone, increased stress hormones and neurological / behavioral problems.
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What is Your Ovulation Cycle?
Using the common signs of ovulation to become pregnant works for some couples but each female body is different and the ovulation cycle from one woman to the next will also be different. Here are 6 steps to find out your ovulation cycle.
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What to Expect From Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy
As the end of the pregnancy approaches, pelvic pain is often a signal of the start of labor. Labor pelvic pain is associated with pressure on the pelvis or the feeling that baby is getting heavier.
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Am I Able to Get Pregnant After…
In many cases, illness, disease and injury will not affect the ability to become pregnant, but that is not always the case.
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