Have you tried to get pregnant in past 6 - 12 months without success?
A few factors may reduce the chances of pregnancy:
Body Weight: overweight and under weight can both have adverse impact on fertility. A healthy BMI between 20 and 25 increase chance of fertility.
Diet: Sugar intake will cause inflammation, ages the reproductive organ and reduce the egg quality. Fried food is full of trans fat induces inflammation and insulin resistance.
Stress: Stress is normal in daily life. When it is unmanageable, it will reduce the chances of fertility as stress releases chemicals and hormones like cortisol that interfere with follicular development and inflammation processes for ovulation.
Ideally, infertility acupuncture starts three months before IVF and IUI treatments to assist with blood circulation and reduce stress levels.
On your first visit, the Rainbow Medicine acupuncturist will ask questions about diet, sleep habits, medical history, stress level and sleep pattern.
Rainbow Medicine acupuncture clinic in Balgowlah tailors the infertility acupuncture treatment plan to your condition. We recommend starting the acupuncture treatment once a week, one month before the cycle and twice a week during IVF.
First, the medical part, because it decides everything else. See your GP — both of you — at six months of trying if the female partner is over thirty-five, twelve if younger, and sooner if cycles are irregular or there is known endometriosis. The first round of tests is straightforward and it determines the whole pathway. A semen analysis is part of it and is often delayed by a year for no good reason.
What this page is actually about is the rest of it, because fertility difficulty is usually measured in years and almost all of that time is spent outside a clinic. The monthly cycle of hope and disappointment. Other people\u{2019}s pregnancy announcements. A sex life that has become scheduled. Appointments eating annual leave. Two people grieving on different timetables. And the strain of being asked about it at Christmas.
None of that is soft. It is the part that breaks people, and it is worth having somewhere to say it out loud. Every fertility clinic in Australia has counselling available and using it is not a sign of coping badly — it is one of the more sensible things available, and it is usually underused.
What we can help with: sleep, the physical side of stress, cycle-related symptoms, and the preconception basics — folate and iodine, immunisation status, iron and thyroid checks, current cervical screening, and a review of regular medication, all of which belong with your GP. No complementary treatment here is presented as improving your chance of conceiving. The clinic is in Lane Cove, five minutes from the village.
