When a couple faces the painful truth that they are experiencing some difficulties with their plans for reproduction, it seems that suddenly anyone and everyone around them is an expert on the subject, with many words of advice and so-called wisdom in how to deal with the issue and how to correct it.
Some of this “wisdom” will no doubt be based on anything but scientific fact. After all, if someone is not a doctor how can they rightly know what any physical ailment or issue truly comes from?
And what is worse, many of the things that people will tell couples facing infertility are not only unscientific, they are somewhat callus and even dismissive. For example, how many times have you heard the following phrases:
“You’re just trying too hard.”
“You need to relax and let nature take its course.”
“Once you stop worrying about it, then it will happen.”
“The problem is that you’re too stressed.”
“Of course you can’t get pregnant. Look how tense you are!”
If you’ve been trying for some time to get pregnant, you’ve probably lost count of the number of times well-meaning friends and family offered this or similar advice.
It may be true that for some couples, once they decided to “relax” and stop thinking so much about their goal of having a baby, then pregnancy seemed to miraculously follow, but chances are that whatever it was that was giving them such trouble probably corrected itself on its own, or the pregnancy just happened by circumstance. Some couples are naturally a bit more able to conceive than others, and some need several more “tries” before it happens for them. The couple that decided to “relax” probably just had all their circumstances line up by coincidence.
But many couples and women may wonder how much of this is actually true. Does stress play any type of role in one’s fertility and ability to conceive? Could it be possible that excessive worry about one’s condition can only make things worse?
Of course, there’s nothing more valuable than your own doctors diagnosis, but let’s take a look at all the possible issues that could be considered valid causes of infertility.
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