Struggling to conceive? Don’t just opt for IVF. Instead drink less, avoid stressful working hours and simply stop arguing with your husband to boost your chances of having a baby, according to a fertlity expert.
"It is not so much that they (the women) are suffering from an inability to conceive, but an impatience to do so, set against a bleak backdrop in which almost everything else about their lifestyle has a negative impact.
"A lot of people drink as a way to relax, but studies have shown that alcohol directly impacts fertility. In women, it’s thought to affect reproductive hormones, leading to an abnormal menstrual cycle," British fertility expert Zita West told the ’Daily Mail’. West and her colleagues have based their findings on an analysis of several patients who visited their clinic for
fertility treatment.
In fact, according to her, stress also acts as a barrier to reproduction - it can not only kill sex life of a couple but also affects a woman’s fertility. "Women today work incredibly hard -they get up, they have breakfast on the run, they check their Blackberrys last thing at night and they fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted.
"The human body, remarkable as it is, is extremely complex and sensitive to factors such as stress and anxiety, especially when it comes to reproduction. And if you are having sex just once a week or once a month, conception is not necessarily going to be straightforward.
"Next thing, the couple are arguing, and bitter feelings and resentment provide another barrier to sex, which in turn affects conception. And all this may happen in a far shorter time frame than the average seven months it takes to conceive," West said.
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