Beware of the use of plastics and modern lifestyle patterns that you do. The combination of stress with a chemical found in plastics such as toys to kids credit cards, proved to increase the likelihood of reproductive defects.

One new fact was found from the results of research conducted by the Edinburgh University who says the stress of your lifestyle could damage men's health, especially in reproductive health disorders.

These disorders include problems testicles descended into scrotum. If this is allowed to drag on, this condition can lead to infertility.

"This study not only see the effects of one single factor abnormalities in male but see a combination of lifestyle factors and the environment. Both cause a greater impact," said Mandy Drake, the researcher quoted from Dailymail.

Most studies show that reproductive disorders caused by exposure to only high levels of chemicals in the timeframe that is not normal. Whereas only a few humans who are exposed to these chemicals.

"In this study appear if stress is a part of everyday life, can increase the risk of reproductive problems. In addition, research studies indicate that chemicals in the lower levels can also cause harmful effects," explains Drake.

The study published in the journal Endocrinology, the study of how the condition affects the development of uterine male rats.

Some pregnant rats given phthalates (plastic softeners chemicals) found in many household appliances including shower curtain, vinyl floors, plastic packaging, toys and credit cards. In addition, some mice were also given injections of stress hormones.

The study found that stress hormone alone does not affect the testicles and urinary system but giving a baby rat phthalates can affect the course. And giving both aggravating interference.

"Stress and chemicals in early pregnancy, inhibit the development of sex organs of men and interfere with fertility in later life," said Drake

Pregnant women who suffer from clinical depression or stress attacks of extreme need extra medical care. Therefore, pregnant women's psychological condition greatly affects the development of her fetus. Says Dr. Miguel A. Diego, a researcher from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Miami, United States.

"The results are contained in the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine reveals that the size of infants born to mothers who are stressed or depressed tend to be smaller, both weight and length than infants born to mothers who are not experiencing stress," writes reuters.com .

Dr. Miguel A.Diego and his team found that the hormone cortisol produced by adrenal glands as a contributing factor of stress. Dr. Miguel A. Diego using ultrasound measurement (ultrasound) to see the development of the fetus in the womb at the age of 98 pregnancies of women 16 to 29 weeks. They measured the levels of hormones and overall evaluation to measure the level of maternal stress. Increasingly heavy pressure on pregnant women, the less likely the baby to grow. Statistical analysis showed that levels of the hormone cortisol is high in proportion to the stress experienced and the body weight down.

To cope with stress in pregnant women, needed psychological therapy or a good social support. Because the influence of drugs anti stress to pregnant women is also still giving the pros and cons among health experts. "In addition to not developing fetus, pregnant women stress can trigger preterm delivery," said Dr. Miguel A. Diego.

So, go spa... take yoga , swimming or else to make youself fresh away from stress.

Jessie Hewitson had a bad dream of how her horror of a pregnancy early in their teens. Excessive fear of pregnancy makes it a phobia because it sure can not tolerate the pain of childbirth.

Since then, every pregnant woman Jessie saw a panic, her hands trembled and her feelings became very frightened. But the phobia was now pregnant even pregnant.

Pregnancy makes Jessie became very depressed. Jessie became often confused, often contracted and always asked why he allowed himself to become pregnant.

Jessie is 6 months pregnant was once hospitalized because of an attack of excessive fear of pregnancy. Until now she had to struggle to overcome her depression because of the growing shadow unable to give birth. Pregnant phobia typically experienced by most victims of rape. But now many women who also had a phobia pregnant.

More extreme at times when pregnant, the phobic patient is doing excessive exercise, punched her stomach, drinking alcohol, smoking so often judged by the husband, family and people around her. And they do this out of control in excess of their fear. There was a fetus in the body makes them very scared.

Extreme fear of childbirth or tokophobia, was first identified in 2000 by Dr. Kristin Hofberg and very surprising findings public. Tokophobia experienced 1 of 6 women.

Hofberg separate patients into two categories, namely tokophobes (tokophobia patients) of primary and secondary tokophobes. Primary Tokophobes is an excessive fear on the first delivery. While secondary tokophobia is fear that arises because of the trauma of the previous delivery.

What distinguishes tokophobia with pregnant pregnant anxiety is the fear of excessive labor. Some tokophobes think they will die, others imagined something unbearable happens.

The most common characteristic is the fear of a normal delivery. But not the fear of childbirth, or fault surgically. But there are some women who consider both processes as chilling. For people with phobias pregnant, the baby growing inside her belly is very disturbing their activities, so they do not want to become pregnant.

Psychotherapist Graham Price, who has treated many patients with this condition, says there are certain triggers that cause it such as a victim of rape or traumatic experiences.

Fear of this phobia sufferers will increase when she heard a horrible birth story or to see direct delivery. TV footage that shows the negative things about the birth can also trigger tokophobia.

According to Price, tokophobes be very hard trying to not get pregnant. Most of them always use contraception every time connected, there is also a very panicky pregnancy and try to have an abortion.

"I read all about childbirth, but I am afraid just because a wild imagination," said Alison Ellerbrook, who also experienced in pregnancy tokophobia first daughter, as reported by the Guardian.

According to Alison, in the third trimester she often cries and restless. She panicked and nightmares about childbirth. And at the time of delivery she became very frightened, and doctors diagnosed with postnatal depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It took two years to restore the condition, and now he's afraid to make a second delivery.

Cesarean process is often done on tokophobes. The majority of women, of course, does not have the trauma of childbirth. Most women experience a very positive thing at the time of delivery. They fought the fear and understand that a woman's body is designed to give birth.

Try to relax and be free from stress! That is ancient advice often given to women who were longing for pregnancy.

Suggestions for avoiding stress is often provided by friends and family to those who want a pregnancy. Although the advice is often ignored, never even encouraged by some of the obstetrician or doctor.

But now, the advice now could no longer be underestimated. Even the researchers in the United States claimed the women should run this advice.

Alice Domar, manager of a Fertility Clinic in Boston and worked at Harvard Medical School, found that women who are stress management program, while undergoing fertility treatment, has shown an average increase 160 percent chance of pregnancy greater than those who only use IVF techniques (in vitro fertilization / IVF).

"The reproductive health experts have long worried about the impact of stress on fertility rates, which can hinder a woman to get pregnant," Domar said in a statement.

"The results of that study showed that stress management will improve pregnancy rates, reduce stress by itself fertility management, improve the success rate of IVF and absolutely helps eliminate the emotional burden on women who are facing the challenge exam to become pregnant," she said.

In her research, Domar involving 97 patients randomly selected at the clinic to take part in the relaxation program in the 10-session program for undergoing IVF.

This program does not give effect to how many women who were pregnant during the trial, Domar said, but a woman who failed in the first experiment, the experiment proved successful in both. 52 percent noted that following the relaxation program succeeded in getting pregnant, who did not participate while only 20 percent of the program alone.

Depressive illness is composed of a series of symptoms including depressed mood. The depressed mood, however, is not specific to depressive illness, which appears not only in depression, which means that a person suffering from "depression" referring to the fact that it is "down" mood is incorrect to classify things .
There are depressions inhibited or delayed, and depressions excited, or agitated. There are forms of depression "calm", dominated by inaction and indifference, and forms "anxious", in which the person complains and is constantly on edge.

There are also forms of depression in which the person gives the impression of being idle and locked into hibernation, but in favorable circumstances or stimulant suddenly resumed vitality and even may become euphoric and hyperactive.

In varying degrees, the depression is always a degree of anxiety, especially if the depressed person is forced or pushed to deal with any case of commitments or relationships that can not be avoided. Sometimes the anxiety is accompanied by a real state of excitement motor.

The person does not find peace, repeats of "not knowing where they stand," not knowing where to go, "walk up and down or needs to move, to leave, for example turning car. It absorbed in thoughts that are painful but are content fast, one after another, even repetitive, and not leave the person alone, like teasing and keeping awake. Sleep is typically interrupted by insomnia active with the person who tries unsuccessfully to distract himself, he can not concentrate on any activity, but is eager.

The person is involved in the content of his thoughts, can feel the urgency to find solutions, or an exit from situations that cause suffering, complaining that there can and can not conceive of a way out. Believes that everything depends on the problems of the moment, that the problems of the moment are the key to his whole life, with a tragic ending and inescapable. The thought of suicide is latent, but especially impulsivity is increased, so the person can engage in actions without self-injurious or to have them designed intention.

Sometimes people with this type of depression try to stimulate in various ways. It’s a framework common in substance abuse and alcohol, but can also be found outside of these situations. For example, the person may seek sexual relations, or eating voraciously in a disorderly fashion, or trying to calm himself abusing painkillers.

Anxiety is a different condition from agitation, because the anxious person tends to complain and is distressed, but is more passive. Calls for reassurance, seek security from others and avoid commitments that increases anxiety, but usually moves little, and if you "shake" does it "in place". Anxious depression is not associated with aggression, something that happens in depression rather agitated. The mood of agitation is irritable, jerky, not dominated. Its not sensitive to reassurance.

Regarding therapy, the difference is crucial because antidepressants often leading to resolution anxious depression worse, not agitation agitated depression. Agitated depression it does not belong to the "family" of depression, but the "family" of bipolar disorders. Agitated depression is a state of excitement, albeit with depressed mood.

The drugs mood stabilizers, such as certain antipsychotics and electroconvulsive therapy, not least the methods can be safe and effective to act on these complaints. Treatment with antidepressants alone, which began perhaps at a "non-suspicious" of seeming anxious depression, may instead worsen the picture, increase the risk of aggressive behavior against self and others, and overall levels of impulsivity.

You crave the presence of a child, but all your efforts have not produced results. Often women become stressed thinking about it, which, according to the beliefs some people-even more difficult the possibility of pregnancy.

Is it true, frustrating about pregnancy can make you more difficult to get pregnant?

According to a survey conducted by Resolve, the national infertility association in the United States, 64 percent of the women mistook stress (which is not a medical condition) as a factor hampering conception. In fact, many doctors also believe that there is a relationship between stress and fertility, but no scientific studies that prove that too much mind or stress as they are not well endowed with baby can reduce your chances of pregnancy.

"In fact, many women around the world are also under great pressure, but they still could get pregnant, anyway," said Shari Lusskin, MD, director of reproductive psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center. "But why are other career women can not get pregnant? We do not know if stress is the cause."

If there is no relationship between stress and the difficulties pregnant, why the fact that often arise? What about women which difficult to be pregnant , and the reason for the working situation of women who are full of stress? Does not this go together?

"Too many emotional and physical stress-for example, continue to be worried about something or practice hard to match, can lower your levels of progesterone. This is what can interfere with ovulation," said Sami David, MD, assistant clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

But the author of Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility is also said, it is difficult to conclude that the association was modest.

The best advice given to you who are waiting for the presence of children, or hope next month you start late period, remain to relax. Do not let your worries because age is no longer young drowning other things in your life more beautiful. Try to relax, but do this mainly for peace of mind.

Depression in pregnant women has many causes. First, the hormonal changes that women influence overall mood so she often felt annoyed, bored, or sad. Other causes are, changing the physical state during pregnancy. Toward a certain gestational age, women experience difficulty sleeping.

This would cause the next day the mother will feel very tired, there black circles in the eye, and facial skin becomes dull. The existence of problems in the womb as a weak content, frequent vomiting in early pregnancy, other problems can also cause depression. Mother would constantly worry about this child and will make him feel depressed. Depression can also experience the mother gave birth. In the United States, approximately 30 percent of mothers who just had a baby suspected of having postpartum depression.

Children Become Aggressive
Why is important to keep to the pregnant mother suffering from depression? Tiffani Field, Ph.D from the University of Miami Medical School answers this question based on research he had done for 20 years. She found children born to mothers who experience depression during pregnancy will have higher levels of stress hormones, brain activity that is sensitive to depression, showed little expression, and experiencing other symptoms, such as eating and sleeping difficult.

It's Dangerous if the symptoms of depression in the newborn was not immediately handled children develop into children who are not happy. They are difficult to learn to walk, asked the body is less, and not responsive to other people. If this situation remains handled the child will grow into a toddler who is depressed. When they start school behavior problems, such as aggressive and easily stressed.

Action Aid
Mother and child depression should get professional help. Consult with a pediatrician and child psychologist. The sooner help is given the more likely the child will grow normally. Other therapies, like massage, also proved good for depression, both for children and mothers. But, this too should be under the supervision of a doctor.

Importantly, this recovery effort must be made to the mother and baby. Do not just infants who were treated, while the mother is left increasingly sank into depression or vice verse. Mother and baby must work together to overcome depression. Dad also had to play an active role in helping the healing of the people closest to it.

That's why, today, the role of the mother's husband who was pregnant and after giving birth to very large. Pregnant women must get the support of as many as possible of the husband. Support from the husband can be shown in various ways, such as to give peace to his wife, helping some of the work his wife or even just give a light massage if the wife feels sore. Hopefully, with the total support of her husband, the wife can get through the pregnancy with pleasure and away from depression.

At the awaited baby is born, the role of the husband who now has become a father naturally expected to become increasingly active.'s Father and mother must share the task of raising and caring for your baby. Do not get all the care given to the mother's baby. This can make a mother depressed because his physical had not recovered after the birth of new fatigue plus caring for the baby.