There is no «right way» to react in the face
of fertility difficulties, and in times of stress, sadness, and loss, we all do the best we can.
«Women can now make potentially life - defining decisions about how to proactively plan for the family they want to build and be more efficient in
overcoming fertility difficulties they are experiencing using better, more personal, information than age,» founder Piraye Beim shared earlier this year in TechCrunch.
Finally, the prayer suggestions are both relevant and beautiful and serve to emphasise further how much couples have to gain from coming as close as they can to the Church when striving for the gift of children and struggling
with fertility difficulties.
They relate their hypothesis to life - history theory, which talks of balancing the preservation of one's health and the production of offspring that will survive to reproduce themselves, and theorize that «early life stressors may predispose an individual to adaptively suppress fertility when situations are less than optimal, leading to periods of
fertility difficulties even following previous births.»
It
analysed fertility difficulties, menstrual cycle irregularities and adverse childhood experiences, through a mixture of in - person interviews and take - home questionnaires.
A third potential limitation is that we did not investigate the possibility that some women in our sample of nonpregnant women might be experiencing
fertility difficulties which might have affected their relationship satisfaction negatively.
Following their research, the team came to the conclusion that those women who had experienced negative events at a young age — such as «abuse, neglect, household dysfunction or parental substance abuse» — were more likely to have
faced fertility difficulties and abnormal absences of menstruation lasting three months or more, and also took a longer time to get pregnant.
In their paper «Adverse childhood event experiences,
fertility difficulties and menstrual cycle characteristics», Marni B. Jacobs et al. explore the hypothesis that negative experiences in childhood can result in menstrual cycle irregularities, which consequently impact fertility.
But, I always like to help my clients support their optimal fertility health and preconception health (even if they are not having
fertility difficulties.)
Reproductive health:
fertility difficulties, pregnancy loss, family planning, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression