Does Infertility Cause Stress or Does Stress Cause Infertility? Feat. Dr. Alice Domar

Today we had the honor of learning from Dr. Alice Domar, a health psychologist who focuses on the application of mind/body medicine to women’s health issues. Dr. Domar serves as the Chief Compassion Officer at Inception Fertility, as a senior staff psychologist in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel, and as an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. She is on the board for Parents Magazine and served 10 years on the board of Resolve. Additionally, she is the former chair of ASRM’s mental health professionals group. She has also written eight books and is the co-creator of the apps FertiCalm and FertiStrong. Dr. Domar shares with us what it was like to grow up with a child of parents facing infertility and how the experience impacted her life, how to tell someone struggling with infertility that you’re expecting, the connection between stress and infertility, some psychological interventions that improve pregnancy rates, and the technology she has been working on to help individuals cope with various situations when experiencing infertility. We have learned a tremendous amount from Dr. Domar and we know you will too!