We all love a feel good story, especially when it comes to babies. This story, of Louise Brown and Elizabeth Carr, first made headlines over 30 years ago, but it’s still bringing hope to women around the world dealing with infertility.

For years, infertility has been considered a taboo topic. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, many women don’t know just how common infertility is. Here in the United States, 6.7 million women between ages 15 and 44 have impaired fecundity, or the impaired ability to get pregnant or carry a baby to term. And it was Brown and Carr’s parents who first shed light on this sensitive topic, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Louise Brown was the world’s first test tube baby, born via in vitro fertilization in 1978 in England. A few years later, Carr was the first American born via in vitro fertilization, back in 1981. This June, the two women finally met at Chicago’s Midwest Reproductive Symposium International, and they immediately hit it off.

The women shared their unique stories in front of doctors, nurses, and fertility experts, and both recounted knowing their birth stories from a young age. They found out they had more in common than one would’ve thought, including being the answers to Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit questions and being featured on front pages of newspapers before they were even born.

Carr explains to PEOPLE:

“My first baby photo showed me four cells old under a microscope, and my first press conference was when I was three days old. Louise and I have so much in common that I’d always dreamed about meeting her. It’s nice to know that this weird life we call ours is something that somebody else shares.”

Brown and Carr hope that their meeting can bring hope to couples struggling worldwide with fertility issues. Their success story just signifies that it is possible for women and men to conceive in non-traditional ways, and they are quick to show how far medical technology has come since they were born. For example, back in the late 1970s, the world had never heard of IVF treatments, but now it is a household name. There are plenty of more developments in the world of fertility treatments, including freezing eggs and sperm.

Sharing a stage together for the first time, the women feel that their existence serves as a perfect example of inspiration to those who are struggling to conceive.

Brown expresses the same sentiment as Carr to PEOPLE:

“Elizabeth and I are both so grateful for the work of the scientists and doctors who brought about IVF, so if my existence gives them encouragement, that’s a good thing. Doctors gave me the middle name of ‘Joy’ because they said my birth could bring joy to many people. I want to live up to that name.”

You may want to think twice the next time you put your child in front of a screen. A recent study presented at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting found that infants and young toddlers who look at screens for more than 30 minutes per day are more likely to have speech delays, USA Today reports.

The four-year study involved 890 children between the ages of six months and two years. Results show that for every 30 minutes in front of a screen, a child had about a 50% increased risk of delayed speech once they learned how to talk. Jenny Radesky, assistant professor of developmental pediatrics at the University of Michigan, said in a statement to USA Today that detrimental screen time still includes “educational” programs targeted at these youngsters.

“Please don’t buy into the marketing claims from baby TV stations or from baby-oriented media, because the evidence shows that they are just looking at the lights and…not comprehending what’s on the screen,” she said. “Those are critical months in terms of language development and getting out and exploring their 3D world.”

Children’s brains are highly vulnerable during their early years, constantly open to new information. Up until the age of eight, children are able to naturally acquire language skills. This critical period in early language acquisition is so important that some individuals are making moves to legally ban or control screen time before a certain age. Voguereports that Tim Farnum, an anesthesiologist in Denver, CO, is collecting signatures to introduce a bill that would ban children under 13 from purchasing smartphones.

“[With smartphones], the internet is always begging for your attention,” he said in a statement to The Coloradoan. “The apps are all designed to addict you…For children, it’s not a good thing.”

There are other reasons to fear excess screen time, too. A 2015 study found that excess technology use also leads to a number of physical issues in addition to psychological, including weight gain and illness. Recent studies also show that one one out of ten of us only exercise a few days per month. Well, it turns out that today’s younger generation may not be far off from that — the average teenager gets as much physical activity as today’s senior citizens.

The solution to this? Controlling how and when our children use technology. Michael Robb, director of research at Common Sense Media, said in a statement to USA Today that screen use should be monitored on a case-by-case basis by parents. In fact, by selecting the right media to show your children in small increments, you can retain the educational purpose of some childhood shows and videos.

“The concept of screen time itself is almost meaningless,” he said. “It’s not about the time, it’s about the content. It’s about the context and about the child themselves.”

Drinking is typically seen as a method of relieving stress and loosening up. But could it be making your anxiety worse? Here, a few experts weigh in on why drinking that extra glass of wine could help anxiety turn up.

Millennials consumed an estimated 36% of all wine purchased in the last year. That’s almost 159.6 million cases in total. Why? Aarti Gupta, PsyD and clinical director at TherapyNest, a center for anxiety and family therapy, spoke with Refinery29 to provide some answers.

“Alcohol is a depressant, so it relaxes your nervous system overall,” Gupta said.

In addition, alcohol has been known to decrease anxiety and even sedate individuals in certain cases. That being the case, it’s understandable that the vast majority of people associate alcohol with relaxation and calm. And while it sounds like a great idea for an anxious person, research says otherwise.

According to Dr. Gupta, alcohol actually changes the way serotonin works within the brain. Additional research suggests that alcohol can contribute to an increase in cortisol, a hormone released when you’re feeling stress.

But hormones aren’t the only culprits of alcohol-induced anxiety. The typical drunk experience may involve blurred vision, increased heart rate, and even disorientation. Most people don’t think much of these symptoms, but Dr. Gupta warns otherwise.

“These are all symptoms that anxious people regularly identify during an anxiety attack,” Gupta says.

Of course, stronger forces like social anxiety could also play a role in these feelings of anxiety. But above all else, experts warn not to use alcohol to cope with anxiety.

“Downstream, this psychological dependence can create more anxiety,” said Joshua P. Smith, PhD, clinical director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Smith also provides advice regarding alcohol myopia, a term used to refer to alcohol-induced shortsightedness. Essentially, this means that errors in speech or action — things that are quite common when people have been drinking — can cause additional anxiety or embarrassment because it’s more difficult to think outside of that singular moment.

Anxiety disorders tend to develop in children at a young age. In fact, almost one-third of children experience a change in family structure before they turn 18, which could contribute to an already-present anxiety disorder. And as Dr. Gupta and Dr. Smith have revealed, alcohol may not be helping.

Given the research and information provided, it’s safe to say alcohol can play a significant role in increasing anxiety, especially for those with an anxiety disorder.