Initial consultation Your initial visit will most likely include a consultation with your provider to review your medical history, prior evaluation, and treatments you may have already done. A review of your partner’s history (if applicable) will also be assessed. This initial appointment may take 1-2 hours, so allow enough time in your schedule so […]
Making Miracle Babies: My Own Story
That’s me with Kira and Jack, neither of whom would be here if I had listened to science and statistics. Confident Kira made her way through an ovary that had once been covered with 200 endometrial adhesions, and willful Jack traveled effortlessly two and a half years later through a fallopian tube that was determined […]
4 Ways Acupuncture Can Fight Infertility
In 2001 I opened the doors to my acupuncture practice and almost miraculously, I quickly began filling my schedule book with willing patients! It wasn’t that I was any better than my colleagues, or because I had an awesome marketing strategy in place that kept my phone ringing all the time. Rather, my schedule was […]
5 Ways To Help Cope With Male Infertility
Traditionally when we think of infertility we think of a woman’s journey, her body and what’s happening to interfere with mothering. We also know that infertility can occur because of an isolated male factor, which most often includes low sperm counts and poor quality of sperm. But men all too often are struggling in silence […]
Suffering In Silence: Why Your Partner Also Needs Support
So much emphasis is placed on how to help women get through the physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of infertility treatments and testing that you would think that their husbands (or partners) have no particular needs for support through these stressful procedures. True, it’s not their bodies that are undergoing these pokes and prods, invasive […]
How To Keep Your Cool When Your Hormones Are On Fire
Not many fertility docs will warn you about the emotional ups and downs of taking fertility drugs so it can come as a rude awakening when you have no idea why you’re feeling so impatient, irritable or downright depressed. Everyone reacts differently, of course, but if you’re one of those unlucky ones it can be […]
Tips on How to Relax When TTC
“Just relax and it will happen” – that’s pretty common advice that you might hear from friends and family when you tell them you’re trying to conceive. If only it were that easy. Let’s get real here, it’s pretty challenging for anyone to relax on a turbulent, winding and steep roller coaster ride. The emotional […]
Fragile X: How It Affects Fertility
Many women are unaware that they have Fragile X premutation until they are trying to conceive, and experience difficulties. Fragile X is associated with three known disorders, including Fragile X Syndrome. For women who are carriers of Fragile X, one of the most common symptoms is infertility. What Is Fragile X? Women with a Fragile X premutation […]
How The MTHFR Gene Affects Fertility
What is the MTHFR gene and how does mutation in MTHFR affect fertility? The MTHFR gene lives within every cell in the human body, and it’s responsible for breaking down folate that you ingest through your diet (by the vitamin B folic acid) and utilizes it to form methylfolate. The body cannot produce folate on its own, therefore […]
Secondary Infertility: Parenting With Perspective
MOMMY AND ME Schedule daily activities that promote wellness for both adult and child. This could include daily walks or pulling out the crayons and using an adult and child coloring book. Explore what options are available for you and your child to connect, but also experience relaxation at the same time.
