The Stressfull Infertility Treatment
New studies show that stress during treatment can play an important role in the result of fertility. Some couples achieve pregnancy faster than others who are affected by stress disorders.
- - Consider your fertility treatment as a life project. Develop a strategy with your life partner and your doctor and decide how far you are willing to go. Decide in advance, on what kinds of treatments you are willing to try and assess the emotional, physical and financial factors they involve. Try to accept the idea that you will procreate in the future and you need patience instead of being anxious to see the results and becoming stressed when they fail to appear or are delayed.
- - Make notes of important elements for which you have no answers and ask them to the doctors.
- - Conceive a backup plan to for the case of failure, like sperm or eggs donor or adoption or even having no children at all.
- - Include breaks and vacation in the strategy to avoid stress.
- - Keep an open channel for communications with your partners and don't expect him or her to feel the same way you do. Reactions may be different.
- - Don't let this treatments occupy all the time in your relationship. Keep doing what normally do to feel good and to have a healthy relationship.
- - Think about the help you could get from counseling, support groups or other methods to avoid stress and other emotional problems.
- - Accept the negative reactions you may encounter when someone else will achieve pregnancy before you do.
- - The emotions you will encounter, anger, frustration, anxiety, grief, shame, damaged self-esteem, jealousy, isolation and loss of control, may be very hard to overcome especially if you are a successful couple used achieving your goals. Studies show that fertility treatments can be more stressful than cancer therapies.