Working Women How To Cope Up With Infertility
                     Working Women How To 
Cope Up With Infertility 
Stress
INTRODUCTION
Working women are already facing up with many 
problems in both society and home, and they also 
have a hard time coping with infertility stress. Many 
kinds of research have proven that the women who 
experience psychological stress with infertility are 
similar to women who handling with illnesses such as 
HIV, cancer, heart attack, and chronic pain. Women 
who have fertility problems are undergoing risk for 
anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, and 
decreased self-esteem. These psychological issues 
can occur despite that is infertile, whether a couple 
can face male infertility issues or rather your partner 
faces female infertility, or both male and female 
have infertility issues or other unexplained causes.

Handing infertility problems is not an 
easy task, and you have to face social 
pressure to have babies or feel 
judgment from family members, 
relatives, friends, and even strangers. 
Some people will advise you or provide 
you tips which are not totally helpful. 
When you are overwhelmed by feelings 
of failure, emptiness, and inadequacy, 
you have to overcome the infertility 
stress all by yourself or with the help of 
professional infertility doctors.
Before starting the healing 
process, first, acknowledge your 
feelings and try to identify the 
effects which producing you the 
most stress. 
It will help you to build better 
strategies to overcome these 
feelings.
Gather support
When you are getting treatment for your infertility 
problem, try to attach it with other people. 
But it is true that many people won’t accept and 
won’t know the right things to say or do. Still, you 
need to get support to overcome the emotionally 
difficult infertility treatments. 
Also, joining online forums is a great way to get 
information and support. 
There are many support groups also available for 
you to experience a face-to-face conversation. You 
can ask your fertility doctor to suggest some of 
the support group, which is located in your area.
Keep moving
Doing regular exercise is good therapy for 
releasing good endorphins. 
Exercise can make you feel more energetic, 
happy, and make it easier to handle what’s 
going on in our lives. 
Walking is the best option for you to spend 
more time outdoor, and it is therapeutic and 
low-impact. 
Before your IVF cycle, you can go running, and 
it helps you to feel good and maintain your 
shape. And during your IVF cycle, you can 
better take rest both physically and mentally.
Control your thoughts
During the IVF treatment, people face the mental stress and 
think about so many unnecessary things, including worry 
about the expenses, confuse about the treatment process, 
often think that the next round will work or not, and think that 
what will you do if things go wrong or didn’t work out. In 
addition, when you’re undergoing infertility treatment and 
seeing others get pregnant and having kids can really make 
you upset. 
When you are taking IVF treatment, you should learn how to 
control your thoughts and emotions. You have to focus your 
mind on something else in order to find peace for yourself. 
You can also attend some professional sessions to focus on 
controlling things. It is not necessary to listen to your 
thoughts all the time, and sometimes, you can just observe 
them. Meditation is also a good therapy for you to overcome 
your fears, and doing yoga helps you regulate your thoughts.
Distract yourself
Whether you are currently experiencing an infertility 
treatment or in the middle of treatment, better turn 
your focus on various things as much as possible. 
You can also distract yourself by developing new 
hobbies and pampering yourself. 
In case if you have failed in your IVF treatments two 
times, you can better take some time off from the 
treatment and focus on taking care of your body and 
mind. 
Come out of your room, leave your surroundings, and 
forget about everything that you were going through. 
Do exercise, go out with friends, spend time with your 
lovable ones, and travel more. It will definitely help you 
to distract yourself from the IVF treatments and worry.
Plan the wait
If you are going through IVF treatment, then 
you would have definitely known how much 
stress you are dealing with when you’re doing 
treatments, including retrieval and injections. 
If you’re working women, then you know the 
pressure of dealing with physical or emotional 
stress. 
When you take time off, plan previously about 
how you are going to spend your time usefully. 
Whether you do hobbies or getting together 
with family and friends, use the time wisely.