Work and Pregnancy
Work and pregnancy, are they compatible?
Most studies hinder the achievement of pregnancy, impair fertility and increase the rates of spontaneous abortion
Recent studies on pregnancy and labor position suggests that about 87% of workers are affected in their fertility because of work to be carried in his usual place of occupation.
Without going any further, Ms. Estíbaliz Sanchez, had to sue his company for not wanting to give the low of pregnancy, thereby forcing her to continue with their normal work, to be carried out in a chamber at 2 degrees of temperature and Pallet conveyor machine, with the consequences at the level of temperature and vibration which may be the baby during the first months of development.
Dr. Victoria Verdú, a gynecologist at the clinic Ginefiv assisted reproductive stresses that more and more frequent consultations which they receive in their center due to an alteration of the gametes, both male and female, simply because be subjected to much more stress than existed previously.
Moreover, the type of job and what it involves, such as chemicals, posture, vibration and even higher sound frequencies, are triggers for that fertility may be impaired and at the time of wanting to conceive, can not be achieved naturally.
Both trade unions and the Government are trying to put measures in this type of labor irregularities that although they are crucial, they have fairly high rates of abortion and infertility and sterility.
The reduction in salary during maternity leave and breast-feeding, is also something that generates a conflict between the mother and her job title, a fact which the unions want to participate because they consider that being a mother is not a choice between baby or work outside the home.