Stress and Getting Pregnant: Can Stress Keep You From Getting Pregnant?
Whether stress itself can make getting pregnant difficult is a matter of debate. The current thinking is that stress alone does not cause infertility. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine states in their stress and infertility pamphlet, “Even though infertility is very stressful, there isn’t any proof that stress causes infertility.” Extreme stress may affect fertility, but rarely in ways that would lead to long term trouble with getting pregnant. For example, you may have experienced a late period during an unusually stressful time. But that was just one period. So if you’ve been told to “just relax, and it will happen,” you should know that a vacation alone is not going to cure your infertility. (However, a vacation may lower your stress levels from dealing with the infertility itself! A mighty fine plan, if you ask me.) When Stress Can Lead to Trouble Getting Pregnant While stress alone does not seem to cause infertility, stress can push us toward unhealthy behaviors and u
