Childbearing, the desire to have children, and awareness about the impact of age on female fertility among Finnish university students.

Objective: To describe Finnish university students' childbearing histories, desires concerning childbearing, and awareness regarding the impact of age on female fertility.

Methods: A national survey of Finnish university students in 2008. A questionnaire was sent to 9,967 Finnish undergraduate university students aged less than 35 years.

Mental health of parents of twins conceived via assisted reproductive technology.

Purpose Of Review: To review recent knowledge on mental health of parents of twins conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Recent Findings: Mental health of mothers and fathers of twins conceived via ART is impaired when compared with that of ART singletons.

Summary: Existing studies are mainly cross-sectional and most of them focus on maternal mental health.

Prenatal expectations in transition to parenthood: former infertility and family dynamic considerations.

Prenatal expectations are important for the future parent-child relationship. The authors examined how maternal and paternal prenatal expectations of the relationship with the child predicted 1st-year parenting stress and whether these expectations were violated over the transition to parenthood. They further examined how former infertility affected these associations.

Mental health of mothers and fathers of twins conceived via assisted reproduction treatment: a 1-year prospective study.

Background: Although twin deliveries after assisted reproduction treatment (ART) are common, the mental health of the parents has scarcely been addressed. Therefore, we evaluated the psychological well-being of ART and spontaneously conceiving parents of twins and singletons. Furthermore, the impact of parity and children's health-related factors on mental health was evaluated.