Stress can lead to potentially conceive a girl. is it true ?

Girls Stress Probaly Tp conceive A Baby girl
Prospective parents hoping to have a son and heir should just relax, according to research that suggests worried women are less likely to give birth to baby boys.

Scientists who monitored women in the months before they became pregnant found that those who were suffering from long-term stress had more girls.

Those who had short-term anxieties also took longer to conceive.

It is the latest study to suggest that the circumstances in which babies are conceived, such as their parents' diet and lifestyle, plays an important role in their development.

Experts say it could mean women being told to watch their stress levels as well as their diet and lifestyle when trying for a baby.

Dr Cecilia Pyper, from the Department of Public Health at Oxford University, said: “This research addressed healthy women in UK trying for a baby; this area is important to research because we need to identify ways of making pregnancies and babies as healthy as possible.

“We want to understand what factors influence the chances of a pregnancy being normal; many couples are very keen to know what they should do to improve their chances of conceiving and having a healthy baby, and this research will help us provide the best advice.

“This research study is investigating stress in women trying to conceive; research has already identified that anxiety and stress in pregnant women may cause problems during the pregnancy and with the development of the baby.

“Women who are trying to conceive are already told how important it is for their future baby to take folic acid tablets, to stop smoking and to check they are immune to rubella; if the findings of this study are confirmed by larger studies women may also be advised about reducing stress.”

But she added: “It is important to put this new information into context by recognising it is a very small study and although it is the first time that research suggests that preconception stress may cause a difference in foetal sex, this hypothesis needs to be tested in other larger studies to confirm or refute this observation.

In the first study of its kind, to be presented this week at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's annual conference in Orlando, Florida, 338 women from Britain who were trying to become pregnant were asked to keep daily journals about their lifestyles and their sex lives.

Their levels of two hormones known to rise with stress, cortisol and alpha-amylase, were also measured in the six months before they conceived.

Cortisol is linked to long-term stress such as money, work or health worries, while alpha-amylase levels can be triggered by a sudden release of adrenalin after a difficult journey or an argument, for instance.

Results for the 130 women in the group who went on to have babies were "indicative of a strong female excess", with 58 boys but 72 girls.

Normally in Western countries, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls.

Most strikingly, the odds of having a boy were 75 per cent lower among the women with the highest cortisol levels and 69 per cent lower in those with the second-highest levels.

The paper concludes: "Our findings support a detrimental effect of stress as measured by salivary cortisol on the secondary sex ratio resulting in a female excess of live births."

The women were also involved in an earlier study that showed that higher levels of the short-term stress linked to adrenalin lengthened the time to become pregnant.

Fertility expert Dr Allan Pacey, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, commented: "The results do not necessarily mean that stress is the cause.

Perhaps the stress measured here is a marker for another aspect of these women's lives, such as their occupation, their nutrition or factors do to with their relationship, all of which have been shown to correlate with sex ratio.

"I think it is important to caution couples that there is no surefire way to influence the sex of their baby and nature has a wonderful way of balancing everything out. So although we often see observations like this, on the whole there is generally the same number of boys born as there are girls. For an individual to change aspects of their lifestyle to try and stack the odds one way of the other is no guarantee of success and may in itself lead to disappointment. In my view, couples should just be happy with the sex of baby they get."

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