Tips for Enhancing Your Fertility

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for fertility has been used for thousands of years to help couples conceive. We do this by creating and enhancing your fertility potential by balancing your hormones, nourishing your body and enhancing your health.

The treatments are targeted to enhance both eggs and sperm qualities and address any gynecological issues that may affect your fertility and ability to achieve a healthy pregnancy and carrying the pregnancy to term.

It is recommended that patients invest a minimum of three months of acupuncture and herbal regimen prior to staring an IVF/ IUI cycle.

Here are a few things you can do prior to your first fertility acupuncture consult:

1)    Track Your Menstrual Cycle

Do you struggle with irregular menses/ skipping periods? How many days do you bleed? Have you been diagnosed with endometriosis or polycystic ovarian cysts (PCOS)?

2)    Gather Prior Blood Work

Believe it or not, borderline diabetes, vitamin D deficiency, underactive thyroid and elevated triglycerides can affect your fertility. We need to balance every aspect of your health not just your sex hormones

3)    Check in on Your Stress Level

Where are your sources of stress and how do you cope? Parenthood is a full-time job that will add demands on you individually and as a couple. Do you have a support network that you can tap and rely on?

4)   Diet and Lifestyle

Are there habits that can change to enhance your fertility success? Do you need to drop extra weight? Can you increase your intake of proteins and eliminate nutrient deficient foods?

Any minute changes you make, will have a ripple effect not just on your fertility health but also overall health. You need to be strong not just for the pregnancy but also to go into labor and raise your baby or babies.