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The Psychology of Pregnancy |
Monday 21 July 2003 |
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Can your mental state determine your fertility? Research is now being done into how feelings, including perhaps unrecognised doubts about having children, can affect the chances of conceiving.
But is this simply putting more stress on to women dealing with an issue already fraught with emotion?
Helen, who became pregnant after giving up on fertility treatment, Juliet Miller, a psychoanalyst and editor of Inconceivable Conceptions and Dr Cecelia Pyper, who is now studying what is behind infertility, all join Jenni to discuss.
Tell us your views/experiences
For more information call the 大象传媒 Actionline on 0800 044 044.
Or call the Oxford Conception Study direct on 01865 226 709.It's a major study of 1000 + women, looking at all aspects of conception - how they conceive, how long it takes, their mood at time of conception - to try and establish how women conceive in the bigger picture.
'Inconceivable Conceptions' Juliette Miller, published by Brunner-Routledge; ISBN: 1583911685.
Previously on Woman's Hour: Coping with IVF failure
大象传媒i Women's Health: Infertility
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