Jokes about the contagious nature of pregnancy have been around for decades.
Costs one woman in a team get pregnantlike a real baby boom happens a few years later. Of course, this does not always happen, but quite often, to think about what mechanisms underlie this phenomenon of pregnancy.
Psychology works
The first studies on this topic were organized back in 1995.
Researchers for the National Adolescent Health Survey surveyed about 1,720 women who were born in 1980. Among other things, scientists noticed that about 50% of women gave birth to their first children in the period from 2008 to 2009, and around this time became a mother and a close friend of a woman.
Later, the question began to be studied at the University of Cologne, where they took up the office transfer of pregnancy.
But of course, there is no talk of any conception virus. Everything is much simpler, but also more complicated at the same time. It's all about psychology, the fact that people who did not see themselves as parents can change plans when they see a happy mom in their environment.It has been proven that couples of reproductive age who do not have relatives, colleagues or friends surrounded by pregnant women are less likely to become parents than couples with such acquaintances.
Scientists believe that the contagiousness of pregnancy can increase the number of pregnancies of working women by 5.8%.
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