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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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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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 physical 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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Stress Can 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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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 »
Get in Shape to Improve Your Fertility
Get into optimal shape and good health now.
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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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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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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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7 Fertility Myths Busted
Fertility and conception expert Dr. David Knight, of Australia sees many couples experiencing difficulty getting pregnant. Knight suggests there might be some simple fixes to easy problems.
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What Are Causes of Spotting?
What are the possible causes of spotting?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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What do I Need to Practice Yoga?
All you need to practice yoga is a little bit of floor space and a little bit of time.
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Do I Need to be Flexible To Do Yoga?
Anyone can do yoga whether they are flexible or not. The most important thing about practicing yoga is that it feels good for your individual body.
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Is Yoga Safe For my Baby?
Yoga is absolutely safe for your baby. While yoga in general can range from a gentle relaxation to a rigorous heart-pumping work out, prenatal yoga is specifically designed to feel good for mother and not harm growing baby.
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Breath and Breathing
Breath is the most important element of a yoga practice. It allows us to move deeper into a pose, get through a difficult one, and move gracefully from one pose to another. Our breath can have this same guiding and transformative power in our daily lives.
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Prenatal/Restorative Yoga - Child’s Pose (Garbhasana)
Child's pose (garbhasana) is a great hip opener and spine lengthener. It can be very relaxing and grounding
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Restorative Yoga – Legs Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani)
Leg's Up the Wall Pose (Viparita Karani) in restorative yoga is known in yoga as an 'inversion,' or upside-down pose where your heart is above your head.
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Introduction to Prenatal Yoga
At the very foundation of yoga practice are some truly transformative and
sometimes even life changing techniques that can help people maximize your physical and mental health, and reduce stress.
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Cell Aging Linked to Stress During Pregnancy
Children born to women experiencing extreme trauma or traumatic life changes during pregnancy are affected on a cellular level.
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Restorative Prenatal Yoga
Restorative yoga, which consists of supported relaxation postures held for a prolonged period of time, provides the body and mind with a designated time for healing, rest, and integration.
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Prenatal Yoga - What Is It?
Prenatal yoga is a physical activity that can be everything from strengthening and stretching to relaxing and meditative.
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Breathing Practice – Nadi Shodhana (Channel Purifying Breath)
Nadi Shodhana (nah-deeh show-dah-nuh) is a yoga breathing practice which
relaxes the body and mind and is said to balance the sides of the brain
and purify the energy channels of the body. It is safe for pregnant
women and women trying to conceive.
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Restorative Yoga - Reclined Bound Angle Pose
Reclined bound angle pose is a restorative version of the bound angle
pose. The benefits of the pose include hip and chest opening, low back
release, and relaxation.
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Breathing Practice – Ujjayi Pranayama
Ujjayi Pranayama (Ocean Sounding or Victorious Breath) breath is commonly used throughout yoga classes and practices. It is used to calm the body and mind, heat the body internally to permit fluid movement and stretching, as well as provide a meditational focal point during the practice for you and those around you.
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Restorative Yoga: Seated Wide-Legged Forward Fold
The seated wide-legged forward fold opens the hips, and stretches the
back and thighs. The supported (restorative) version, is less intense
than a regular wide-legged forward fold, and allows pregnant women to do
the pose without having to hold up their back.
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Prenatal Pregnancy Yoga Guide
Prenatal Yoga is an ideal form of exercise for women during pregnancy because it includes strengthening, stretching, relaxation, and breathing practice, and can be easily adapted for each trimester.
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Breastfeeding Basics
Breastfeeding is natural and baby is born rooting for the breast, so why is breastfeeding so hard for some women? With a few basic tips, new mothers can ease into breastfeeding and create lasting memories of quiet time with baby.
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Asthma in Pregnancy
Asthma is a condition which affects the lungs. Women with asthma who become pregnant must make sure that they properly
manage their condition or they put both themselves and their baby at
risk.
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Nursing Moms Extremely Defensive of Babies
According to a report published in Psychological Science, nursingmothers are just as protective of their infants as 'mama bears.'
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Baby Brain: Real or Imagined?
Baby brain is a common term used to describe mental changes to
thinking and memory that occur during pregnancy and early parenthood.
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Sympathetic Pregnancy: Is Couvade Syndrome Real?
Over the first few weeks of your pregnancy you notice your partner is experiencingquite a few of the symptoms you're experiencing. This phenomenon iscalled sympathetic pregnancy or Couvade syndrome, but it is real?
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Women No Longer Have to Wait to ID Dad
The question of paternity is one many women pregnant women face. Despite
advances in our society and western culture as a whole, asking about
paternity is still a touchy subject.
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Men: Encouraging Your Partner through Fertility Struggles
Trying to make a baby is an exciting time ' at first. Early on in the process, you don't necessarily expect to get it right the first time. You imagine, however, that after two or three months tops, your partner will be proudly displaying that positive pregnancy test.
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Dealing with the Emotional Impact of Infertility for Women
Women who experience infertility go through a rollercoaster of
emotional stress. While their male partners may also experience some
emotional stress, it is different from and not as strong as the stress
women feel.
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