Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 6 , Pages 1306-1313 , June 2007

Antenatal moods regarding self, baby, and spouse among women who conceived by in vitro fertilization

  • Einat Harf-Kashdaei, M.A.
    • ,
  • Marsha Kaitz, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marsha Kaitz, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel (FAX: 972-2-5881159).

Received 18 March 2006 ,Revised 9 November 2006 ,Accepted 9 November 2006.

References 

  1. Eugster A, Vingerhoets AJ. Psychological aspects of in vitro fertilization: a review. Soc Sci Med. 1999;48:575–589
  2. Klonoff-Cohen H. Female and male lifestyle habits and IVF: what is known and unknown. Hum Reprod Update. 2005;11:180–204
  3. McMahon CA, Ungerer JA, Beaupaire J, Tennant C, Saunders D. Anxiety during pregnancy and fetal attachment after in vitro fertilization conception. Hum Reprod. 1997;12:176–182
  4. McMahon CA, Tennant C, Ungerer J, Saunders D. Don’t count your chickens: a comparative study of the experience of pregnancy after IVF conception. J Reprod Infant Psyc. 1999;17:345–356
  5. Hjelmstedt A, Widström AM, Wramsby H, Matthiesen AS, Collins A. Patterns of emotional responses to pregnancy, experience of pregnancy, and attitudes to parenthood among IVF couples—a longitudinal study. J Psychosom Obst Gyn. 2003;24:153–162
  6. Hjelmstedt A, Widstrom AM, Wramsby H, Matthiesen AS, Collins A. Personality factors and emotional responses to pregnancy among IVF couples in early pregnancy: a comparative study. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2003;82:152–161
  7. Repokari L, Punamäki RL, Poikkeus P, Vilska S, Unkila-Kallio L, Sinkkonen J, et al. The impact of successful assisted reproduction treatment of female and male mental health during transition to parenthood: a prospective study. Hum Reprod. 2005;11:3238–3247
  8. Bernstein J, Mattox JH, Kellner R. Psychological status of previously infertile couples after a successful pregnancy. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 1988;17:404–408
  9. van Balen F, Naaktgeboren N, Trimbos-Kemper TC. In vitro fertilization: the experience of treatment, pregnancy and delivery. Hum Reprod. 1996;11:95–98
  10. Olshansky E. Psychosocial implications of pregnancy after infertility. NAACOG’s Clin Issues. 1990;1:342–347
  11. McMahon CA, Ungerer JA, Tennant C, Saunders D. Psychosocial adjustment and the quality of the mother-child relationship at four months postpartum after conception by in vitro fertilization. Fertil Steril. 1997;68:492–500
  12. Beutel M, Kupfer J, Kirchmeyer P, Kehde S, Kohn FM, Schroeder-Printzen I, et al. Treatment-related stresses and depression in couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment by IVF or ICSI. Andrologia. 1999;31:27–35
  13. Fisher JRW, Hammarberg K, Baker HWG. Assisted conception is a risk factor for postnatal mood disturbance and early parenting difficulties. Fertil Steril. 2005;84:426–430
  14. Fleming AS, Ruble DM, Flett GL, Wagner VV. Adjustment in first-time mothers: changes in mood and mood content during the early postpartum months. Dev Psychol. 1990;26:137–147
  15. Kaitz M, Katzir D. Temporal changes in the affective experience of new fathers and their spouses. Inf Mental Hlth J. 2004;25:540–555
  16. Cox SJ, Glazebrook C, Sheard C, Ndukwe G, Oates M. Maternal self-esteem after successful treatment for infertility. Fertil Steril. 2006;85:84–89
  17. Klock SC, Greenfeld DA. Psychological status of in vitro fertilization patients during pregnancy: a longitudinal study. Fertil Steril. 2000;73:1159–1164
  18. Sydsjo G, Wadsby M, Kjellberg S, Sydsjo A. Relationships and parenthood in couples after assisted reproduction and in spontaneous primiparous couples: a prospective long-term follow-up study. Hum Reprod. 2002;17:3242–3250
  19. Hjelmstedt A, Widstrom AM, Wramsby K, Collins A. Emotional adaptation following successful in vitro fertilization. Fertil Steril. 2004;81:1254–1264
  20. Clark LA, Watson D. Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications. J Abnorm Psychol. 1991;100:316–336
  21. Forbes EE, Dahl RE. Neural systems of positive affect: relevance to understanding child and adolescent depression?. Dev Psychopathol. 2005;17:827–850
  22. Kenworthy L, Smith BD, Fedio P, Smith DA, Reese K. Hemispheric specialization in emotion: attention, arousal, and EEG activation in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy. Int J Neurosci. 2001;107:279–293
  23. Cox JL, Holden JM, Sagovsky R. Detection of postnatal depression: development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Brit J Psychiat. 1987;150:782–786
  24. Spielberger C, Gorsuch RL, Lushene RW. Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press; 1970;
  25. Gottschalk LA, Gleser C. The measurement of psychological states through the content analysis of verbal behavior. Oxford: University of California Press; 1969;
  26. Brandell JR. Using children’s autogenic stories to assess therapeutic progress. J Child Adolesc Psychoth. 1986;3:285–292
  27. Westbrook MT. Socioeconomic differences in coping with childbearing. Am J Commun Psychol. 1979;7:397–412
  28. Picard RW. Affective computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 1997;
  29. Glasser S, Barell V. Depression scale for research in and identification of postpartum depression. Harefuah. 1999;136:764–768
  30. Murray L, Carothers AD. The validation of the Edinburgh Post-Natal Depression Scale on a community sample. Brit J Psychiat. 1990;157:288–290
  31. Bennett HA, Einarson A, Taddio A, Koren G, Einarson TR. Prevalence of depression during pregnancy: systematic review. Obstet Gynecol. 2004;103:698–709
  32. Teichman Y, Melenick J. The Hebrew manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Ramot, Israel: Tel-Aviv University; 1980;
  33. Spielberger CD, Sydeman SJ, Owen AE, Marsh BJ. Measuring anxiety and anger with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI). In:  Maruish ME editors. The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment. 2d ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1999;p. 93–1021
  34. Heron J, O’Connor TG, Evans J, Golding J, Glover V. The course of anxiety and depression through pregnancy and the postpartum in a community sample. J Affect Disord. 2004;80:65–73
  35. Stuart S, Couser G, Schilder K, O’Hara MW, Gorman L. Postpartum anxiety and depression: onset and comorbidity in a community sample. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1998;186:420–424
  36. Golombok S, Brewaeys A, Cook R, Giavazzi MT, Guerra D, Mantovani A, et al. The European study of assisted reproduction families: family functioning and child development. Hum Reprod. 1996;11:2324–2331
  37. van Balen F. Development of IVF children. Dev Rev. 1998;18:30–46
  38. Colpin H. Parenting and psychosocial development of IVF children: review of the research literature. Dev Rev. 2003;22:644–673
  39. Hearn MT, Yuzpe AA, Brown SE, Casper RF. Psychological characteristics of in vitro fertilization participants. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1987;156:269–274
  40. Leiblum SR, Kemmann E, Lane MK. The psychological concomitants of in vitro fertilization. J Psychosom Obst Gyn. 1987;6:165–178
  41. Ulrich D, Gagel DE, Hemmerling A, Pastor VS, Kentenich H. Couples becoming parents: something special after IVF?. J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol. 2004;25:99–113
  42. World Fertility Report: 2003. New York: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs; 2005;
  43. Adamson GD, de Mouzon J, Lancaster P, Nygren KG, Sullivan E, Zegers-Hochschild F. World collaborative report on in vitro fertilization, 2000. Fertil Steril. 2006;85:1586–1622
  44. Cook R, Vatev I, Michova Z, Golombok S. The European study of assisted reproduction families: a comparison of family functioning and child development between Eastern and Western Europe. J Psychosom Obst Gyn. 1997;18:203–212
  45. Leifer M. Psychological changes accompanying pregnancy and motherhood. Genet Psychol Monogr. 1977;95:55–96
  46. Thorp SR, Krause ED, Cukrowicz KC, Lynch TR. Postpartum partner support, demand-withdraw communication, and maternal stress. Psychol Women Quart. 2004;28:362–369
  47. Oakley A. Women confined: towards a sociology of childbirth. Oxford: Martin Robertson; 1980;
  48. Bibring GL, Dwyer TF, Huntington DS, Valenstein AF. A study of the psychological processes in pregnancy and of the earliest mother-child relationship. Psychoanal Stud Child. 1961;16:9–72

 Supported by the Vivian and Martin Levin Center for the Normal and Pathological Development of Children and Adolescents, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

PII: S0015-0282(06)04496-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.035

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 6 , Pages 1306-1313 , June 2007

Article Tools