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Read this study from March 2026 and thought to share it. They looked at the impact of sleep, physical activity (tracked with wearable health device) and stress (perceived and measured cortisol levels) and found:

«In one of the first studies using wearable health trackers to examine in vitro fertilization outcomes, physical activity and stress did not influence the pregnancy rate in programmed HRT FET cycles.»

It’s not the biggest study and it’s probably no news to anyone here but I think it’s a good step in the right direction ☺️

Just need to vent and some validation, so if you can relate please tell your story ♥️

I’m pregnant (19 weeks) and told my boss about it yesterday and another coworker today. Some weeks ago, I asked two friends for advice how to do this because such conversations are highly uncomfortable for me. The only advice I got was «just do it», fair enough.

Still, it took me some weeks to get to the point where I could do it. Afterwards I sent a message to my sister to vent about how uncomfortable I felt and still feel about it. I also told her that I don’t need a solution I just want to vent how uncomfortable it felt. But she started to ask questions like «but why is it such a huge deal for you? Maybe there’s something more behind it you need to explore? Dig deeper to find out why you feel that way» etc.

and honestly that just pissed me off.. why can’t I just be a private person? Why does everyone have to like to share everything and those who don’t, there must be something wrong with them. I really don’t mind to tell people I’m close to but my boss? No, I don’t want to tell him so highly private things.

If anything, if I have a «problem» with something then it’s that I sense that they actually want to ask more and want to know more but see that I’m blocking it which makes them uncomfortable and this in turn makes me uncomfortable. If that makes sense?

Ok, that’s it, thanks for listening ♥️