Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Support Through Surrogacy and Infertility






Our friends at the Northern California Fertility Medical Center had these great stats on their website on the value of support when dealing with general infertility issues.  
  • Women who were in their second year of infertility, who were not experiencing depression, and who received group psychological intervention to help them avoid becoming depressed had significantly increased rates of viable pregnancies compared to women who did not receive preventative treatment for depression (Reproductive Endocrinology 73:4, April 2000).
  • Women who received treatment for depression showed a 60 percent viable pregnancy rate within six months, contrasting with 24 percent for women whose depression went untreated (Journal of American Women’s Medical Association 54, 1999).
  • Women with a history of depressive symptoms reported twice the rate of subsequent infertility (Psychosomatic Medicine 57, 1995).

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