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"   If you&amp;#039;re one of the many women who hope to sport a baby bump at some point in your life, you&amp;#039;ll want to keep this news in the back of your mind. According to a new study in Fertility and Sterility, women who&amp;#039;ve had trouble getting pregnant were more likely to conceive if they worked on stress reduction while undergoing fertility treatments. The finding is significant because it shows that women are able to increase their chances of success for pricey fertility programs like in vitro fertilization (or I.V.F., where embryos formed in test tubes are implanted in a woman&amp;#039;s body). The experiment separated 100 Boston women under 40 who were undergoing I.V.F. treatment into two groups: the first just received the treatment, while the second group also signed up for a 10-week stress management program in addition to the I.V.F. The researchers found that the women who underwent the stress management program (focusing on things like relaxation training and social support) had a 32% higher success rate getting pregnant than the women who were just getting I.V.F. This makes biological sense: As Cosmo previously reported, stress can mess with your cycle, preventing you from ovulating regularly. What do you think of the study? Does it make you want to take a yoga class stat? Or is the idea of having a baby just so far away in your mind that you&amp;#039;re not too worried? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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