{"id":226,"date":"2021-03-30T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.oviahealth.com\/guide\/226\/fertility-tip-danger-shift-work\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T02:13:12","slug":"fertility-tip-danger-shift-work","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/226\/fertility-tip-danger-shift-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertility tips: What&#8217;s the danger of shift work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2013 analysis of data spanning from 1969 to 2013 concluded that women who work irregular shifts are as much as 80% more likely to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/248691\/benefits-tsc-progyny-what-can-affect-female-fertility\/\">fertility problems<\/a> than women who work more regular schedules.<\/p>\n<h2>Fertility and shift work<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s still unclear why shift work has the effect, but possibilities range from the disruption that irregular shift work may have on the body\u2019s circadian rhythms, to the already established negative effect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oviahealth.com\/guide\/91\/am-i-too-stressed-to-get-pregnant\/\">stress has<\/a> on fertility, or just a simple lack of sleep. 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