Resort Pays You For Getting Pregnant

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Looking to get some cash back? Just get pregnant at a Caribbean resort.

The Westin Resort on Aruba is offering a new package in which couples who get pregnant at the hotel between Sept. 1 and Dec. 19 will receive a $300 "conception credit" toward a future stay, according to USA Today . Just book the package for $399 a night for two, which includes drinks, meals, lodging and tax. Book before Sept. 30 and you'll get a $100 resort credit toward spa treatments and more.

And to prove that you got pregnant on your trip, just provide a doctor's note.

The idea of a "procreation vacation" isn't new. Several years ago, hotels offered packages that included special fertility-promoting foods and even consultations with sex experts. The Associated Press reported in 2006 that the Westin at Our Lucaya Grand Bahama Island served a concoction of sea moss -- which is said to be the Caribbean Viagra -- evaporated milk, sugar and spices.

"My husband and I thought that we would go on the vacation and learn all these nice fertility secrets and we'd be practicing them for a number of months for them to work," said Lucinda Hughes, who conceived the day she got back from her trip to the Bahamas. "We were stunned. There's definitely some truths to the foods and the elixirs."

But before you drop several hundred dollars or more on a vacation, experts say you can do something very simple to increase your chances of conceiving -- reduce stress. Studies have shown that stress can prevent pregnancy by increasing hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which can reduce sperm count and affect ovulation. These hormones can in turn affect the production of the reproduction hormone gonadotropin releasing hormone.

"Stress had already been shown to affect all those other more traditional players in the sex hormone cascade but no one had looked at GnIH yet," University of California at Berkeley researcher Elizabeth Kirby told the Baltimore Sun . "So, our research basically adds a new piece to the puzzle of sex and reproduction -- a new hormone known to suppress reproduction is also now known to increase in response to stress."

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