Pregnancy and The Mind Body Connection
I'm a firm believer that getting pregnant is dependent not only on physical factors, but mental factors as well. I believe that stress and/or depression can affect your ability to get pregnant as well as affecting the pregnancy itself.Visit www.getpregnantover40.com for more information on meditation and visualization
According to this article, you may have a 30% higher chance of having a preterm birth if you suffer from depression.From the article:
The current findings are based on more than 14,000 women who were screened for prenatal depression between 2003 and 2011. Nine percent screened positive, which meant they were at risk of clinical depression and were referred for a full evaluation.
Overall, those women went on to have a higher rate of preterm birth. Silver's team then accounted for certain other factors, including the mom's age, race and history of preterm birth.
Even then, women with depression symptoms were 30 percent more likely than symptom-free women to deliver early.
