CREA recommends facing treatment in a positive way, with hope and trust in the medical team

The woman’s attitude towards the assisted reproduction treatment’s process is primary for the treatment’s success.For this reason we strengthen our patients’ competences and abilities and we help them to develop these as a coping strategy to overcome better the difficulties that might appear during the process. 

Some of the key factors pointed out by CREA Assisted Reproduction Medical Centre in Valencia are: to face treatment with hope, to trust the medical team and to be realistic about the fact that pregnancy might not be achieved in the first treatment. 

In order to better cope with the process, CREA recommends sharing this experience with trusted people. “Many couples prefer not to tell it neither to their trusted people and keep it secret” points out Natividad Pérez, CREA’s Clinical Psychologist who also suggests to involve the partner since the very beginning “because the treatment it’s a matter of two”. 

Indeed, among the worst enemies of women having their first assisted reproduction treatment there are: negative thinking, anxiety, fears and doubts after many years trying to get pregnant naturally with no success. 

Positive psychology is based on those personal and group aspects that strengthen psychological wellness and happiness, building up human strengths and virtues (creativity, emotional intelligence, humor, wisdom, happiness, resilience, etc.) as opposed to negative and pathological aspects of the human being, such as anxiety, stress or depression. 

A proof of the importance of positive psychology in reproductive medicine is that women who need therapy due to their state of mind, in the majority of the cases obtain a better experience and more satisfaction after treatment’s performance. It’s fundamental to face the process with serenity; “some women arrive with great hope, but they are nervous, with doubts and not knowing whether they are going to get pregnant at their first attempt. From the Clinic Psychology Department we offer them all the necessary support”. 

“In order to learn how to face in a positive way the treatment´s requirements and to maintain the hope that made them seek help to achieve gestation, we recommend them from the very beginning to stay positive during the whole process, although there might be failed attempts,”. 

The patients group that most frequently requires psychological therapy is the one of women older than 38 with a partner, with no children and who, after one or two years trying to get pregnant, didn’t achieve it. In the last ten years this group has been joined by those women who remade their love life and wish to have children again with their new partner. 

On the other hand, the group of single mothers is the one that statistically require less psychological help. It might be due to the fact that they have already thought out the idea that to become mothers they need to recur to assisted reproduction techniques and therefore they seem to face the whole process with greater certainty.