Infertility and stress.
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⚡Infertility can have far-reaching effects. It can affect a person’s relationship with family and friends, create financial difficulty, affect the relationship between partners and negatively affect the couple’s sexual relationship.

In a nutshell, infertility can cause stress.
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⚡Does stress cause infertility?:
While it’s unlikely that stress alone can cause infertility, stress interferes with a woman’s ability to get pregnant.

Anxiety also can prolong the time needed to achieve pregnancy.
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⚡To deal with the stress of infertility:
📌Learn:
Educate yourself about the normal responses to infertility.

Talk to other people going through infertility.

Understand your medical condition and ask about treatment options.

📌Communicate:
Talk to your partner about your feelings and needs, and allow your partner to feel and cope differently.

Talk about your differences and avoid conflict.

Keep communicating with family and friends to avoid isolating yourself.

Understand that you can talk about your situation without going into details and tell others how they can support you.

📌Practice relaxation techniques:
The human body has two types of responses: fight-or-flight and relaxation.

The fight-or-flight response is what happens to your body when you feel danger.

This is the same response you experience during psychological stress.

The relaxation response is when your body is in deep rest.

Relaxation techniques, such as progressive muscle relaxation, deep breathing, meditation and imagery, can help you transition to a relaxation response state.

These techniques can help you deal with any stress, including stress related to infertility.

📌Take care of your health:
Make sure you get your well-adult exam every year.

Eat healthy, exercise regularly, get adequate sleep and allow time for recreation.

📌Deal with sexual stress:
Sexual stress is common among couples with infertility, mostly because couples feel that this is an obligation or a duty rather than a fun activity.

Couples can deal with this in several ways, including taking a break from baby-making, distinguishing between work and fun sex, and learning sensual contact that doesn’t lead to pregnancy.
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Click on the link below 👇🏿to read more about stress and infertility.

https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/infertility-and-stress