7 Ways Stress Can Make It Harder to Get Pregnant
Medically reviewed by Leyla Bilali, RN
Whether stress itself can make getting pregnant difficult is a matter of debate.(1) The current thinking is that stress alone does not cause infertility. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine states in their stress and infertility pamphlet, "Even though infertility is very stressful, there isn't any proof that stress causes infertility."
1. Rooney KL, Domar AD. The relationship between stress and infertility. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2018;20(1):41–47.