Do you feel like you’ve tried everything?

You have started exercising more, improved your diet and taken fertility drugs. All in an attempt to achieve a pregnancy. It can be devastating when nothing seems to be working. Is it possible that the key ingredient you are missing to overcome infertility is… sleep?

Changing your sleeping habits can give you a better chance at becoming pregnant.

According to recent findings, women undergoing IVF who scored seven to eight hours of sleep a night were 25 percent more likely to become pregnant than those who snoozed for nine hours or more.
Oversleeping is not the only factor, women having IVF who racked up fewer than seven hours of sleep nightly were 15 percent less likely to conceive than those who hit the sweet spot of seven to eight hours.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends between seven to nine hours of sleep per night for adults. For more information on improving sleep habits, click here. For more information on infertility and its causes, visit the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Sometimes changing your sleeping habits isn’t enough… For more information on Embryo Adoption, a great alternative for couples struggling with infertility, visit www.embryoadoption.org.

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