What I've always said

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d223

As we've discussed on many occasions, despite what your friends, your mother, your husband, your doctor and the stranger in the supermarket will say,

THERE IS NO DEMONSTRABLE LINK BETWEEN STRESS AND YOUR ABILITY TO CONCEIVE*, EVEN THROUGH IVF

There you go. I shouted.

* PS unless you are anovulatory, in which case stress may be a cause of your lack of ovulation. But for everything else, there is no link. And if you are anovulatory and you're doing IVF, then IVF is fixing your problem for you, so STRESS IS NOT THE ISSUE.