In Vitro Fertilization
Increase Your Success Rate
with Natural Therapies that Work!
Reduce the cost of your in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment by making sure it will work as fast as possible. Natural health can help you!
In vitro cycles can be an emotionally, physically, and financially exhausting experience for many couples, natural health can support you along the way.
Couples, who choose in vitro fertilization as a way to have a baby, go through a lot financially, physically and emotionally. Natural health can assist in all three areas.
1. By following very cost effective natural therapies you can increase your chances of success, which in turn will save you money.
2. By following a healthy life style you can achieve a healthy pregnancy, prevent miscarriages and have an easier birth and postpartum experience.
3. By learning how to deal with stress you will be able to manage parenting and adjusting to your new life with a baby.
To support your body during the in vitro fertilization treatments, choose the natural health therapy that best suites your needs.
Many couples opt to follow a natural health protocol before starting the in vitro fertilization process to ensure a positive outcome.
It has been noticed by practitioners that many natural health therapies can increase your in vitro fertilization rate of success.
Many couples achieve natural pregnancy just before they are scheduled for treatment. This proves that it will be worth it!
Natural therapies also minimize the side effects of the fertility drugs and help your body recover afterwards. Do not forget that in vitro fertilization treatments can be invasive.
There are a number of tests before during and after that you have to go through and your body's biochemistry is manipulated with various drugs in order to achieve a pregnancy.
After the in vitro fertilization cycle, the risk of miscarrying is high and the mental and emotional stress continues even if the in vitro fertilization procedure is successful.
You need to take care of yourself! The life style changes are important not only for the female, but also for the male partner because they help improve sperm health prior to the in vitro fertilization treatment.
Take at least six weeks to prepare and choose what you feel it will help you the most.
If your diet is already excellent, you may want to focus more on releasing stress and taking care of yourself by listening to relaxation CDs or doing what makes you happy.
If you know you need to exercise, try fertility yoga and avoid aerobic exercise or weight training. If you know you will be constantly warring, try Bach remedies, meditation and affirmations.
Asses your situation and choose one or all of the following therapies if you think they have something to offer you.
Preparing Physically
Nutrition
Eat only organic fruits and vegetables. These are rich in minerals, vitamins and enzymes. Also they offer a wide range of anti-oxidants which will protect the eggs and sperm from damage.
You can supplement with the following minerals and vitamins which have great anti-oxidant properties and also aid in fertility.
Homeopathic Medicine
Women who use homeopathic medicine before IVF can produce a high number of healthy eggs and have a healthy endometrium ready for implantation, thus increasing their odds of having a successful cycle.
Please, learnmore about our online homeopathic fertility program for IVF.
Detox
During the six week prior to starting your in vitro fertilization treatments.
Try an herbal or homeopathic detox, which will eliminate toxins from your body.
A detox is also useful in between cycles to aid your body cleanse after taking fertility medications. If you get pregnant avoid cleansing until after you stop nursing.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture has been used for a very long time to treat women's health conditions.
Today, it is gaining popularity very rapidly as an effective natural health therapy to be used in conjunction with conventional medicine for the treatment of infertility.
Acupuncture helps reduce the side-effects of fertility medications. It also helps produce better quality follicles, enhance uterine blood flow and prevent miscarriages.
For men, acupuncture helps improve the quality of sperm in morphology, motility and count.
Weight and Fertility
Your weight plays a very important factor in your fertility. Before your in vitro fertilization cycles make sure your weight goals are reached. Infertility results from either weighing too little or too much.
The relationship between weight and fertility lays in the fact that estrogen is stored in fat cells. If you have too much body fat, the body produces too much estrogen limiting your odds of getting pregnant.
A woman with too little body fat can't produce enough estrogen and her reproductive cycle begins to shut down. In both cases the menstrual cycle is affected leading to anovulatory cycles, irregularities, luteal phase defect, and more.
Castor Oil Packs
Castor oil (Ricinus communis) packs are often recommended for ovarian cysts and endometriosis but it can only be used during the follicular phase of your cycle (up until ovulation).
Do not apply packs after transfer. Talk to your fertility doctor if you choose to use this technique. Castor oil should not be taken internally because it causes bowel peristalsis which can lead to uterine contraction and pregnancy loss. It should not be applied to broken skin and it should not be used if you are menstruating.
A castor oil pack has the property to increase circulation and promote the healing of the tissues and organs where it is locally applied.
The oil packs are made by soaking a piece of flannel in castor oil and placing it on the skin. The flannel is covered with a sheet of plastic, and then a hot water bottle or magic bag is placed over the plastic to heat the pack.
You should rest for 30-60minutes while you do this self-treatment. Do not wash the oil on your skin, just gently remove the excess oil and let it absorb as much as possible for the next couple of hours.
Fertility Yoga
Fertility Yoga helps you relax and increases calmness to assist you when dealing with the stress of invasive in vitro fertilization treatments.
If you are new to yoga either take a beginner's class or follow a DVD that teaches simple relaxing poses with meditation and visualization. Talk to your doctor before starting any exercise program.
Certain yoga poses create hormonal balance and are especially designed to increase fertility. Also, make sure the pose you are executing is not contraindicated during pregnancy and menstruation. T
o not do poses that can compromise implantation like inverted poses. Talk to a qualified yoga therapist or to your fertility health care specialist. Learn the yoga breathing and practice it every day!
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy can be wonderful before and during pregnancy.
It helps to alleviate the tension caused by stress through touch and pressure by sending positive impulses to the spinal cord.
It reduces excess nerve activity within muscles and helps with the removal of toxins, which contribute to pain and stiffness in the muscles.
Besides increasing muscle relaxation, massage therapy contributes to increase blood circulation to the reproductive organs stimulating the body's natural ability to ovulate.
Make sure to look for a registered massage therapist who specializes in fertility and pregnancy massage.
Preparing Emotionally
Meditation
The following meditation is based on the biological processes of conception.
You need to feel your body adjusting to all the changes that are required to achieve pregnancy.
Focus on this process as naturally as possible and do not let the medical intervention scare you or make you feel guilty or anxious.
In your mind create a visual place where all is well and all is perfect and where all that is, simply is. Do not let your worrying thoughts race ahead and cause stress and worries about the possible outcome.
Focus on the moment, this is the only way. Follow the light within you and stay in the light. Do not let darkness and negative thoughts come up and take a hold of your delicate emotional and mental health.
Find support if you cannot do it alone. The following daily meditation is a good example of what you can do to help your in vitro fertilization cycle:
1. Sit comfortably on a chair with your back straight or lie on your bed if you prefer.
2. Gently close your eyes.
3. In your mind's eye see a bright white light approaching you.
4. Pay attention to you breathing and make sure it is slow and steady.
5. Breathe gently with your abdominal muscles.
6. Allow the light to fill your heart area and from there allow it, through your breathing, to move to the area near your reproductive organs.
7. Imagine the light bringing healing and energy to your uterus.
8. Allow this light to move around your body and allow it to go where it is needed the most.
9. See the light entering your blood vessels through your heart and bring healing to every cell of your body.
10. See the light moving to your liver, pancreas and spleen and bring cleansing and hormonal balance.
11. See the light entering your ovaries and bring soothing, healing energy to every follicular structure in your ovaries that is preparing for ovulation.
Visualize your eggs maturing and the lining of the uterus thickening to host and nourish the fertilized embryo. See how easily the embryo implants itself in the uterine lining and how happily finds a new home.
12. Take a few last deep breaths as you bring love and appreciation to yourself for having taken this time to take care of yourself.
13. Slowly open your eyes.
Bach Flowers
Bach flowers are used by many practitioners to balance the emotional well being of women who are going through the in vitro fertilization process.
Reiki
Reiki energy is the most relaxing and soothing treatment you can ever receive. It stimulates healing and promotes a very deep relaxation state.
Creative Visualization
Creative visualization, just like meditation and affirmations, is based on the holistic principle that your mind and emotions have an effect on your physical body.
When in your mind you think about something soothing, relaxing and peaceful, you trigger emotions of happiness, love, appreciations.
These emotions stimulate healing and harmony in your biological and physiological processes: your body respond positively to happiness and joy and negatively to sadness and stress.
The healing power you have within yourselves is what nourishes your body even if we require external medical treatment.
Creative visualization means to create in your mind the outcome you desire, associate with feelings that are positive like love, happiness and joy.
The result will be the manifestation of what we desire. It is very important during the in vitro fertilization process to avoid negativity, so only focus and create what makes you happy.
Do not force this process because it will not work. You have to feel it not just think it!
If you can do it, the results will amaze you!Here is my favourite daily creative visualization technique in can apply to both natural and assisted conception:
1. Find a quite place where you will not be disturbed for at least 10 to 15 minutes.
2. Gently close your eyes.
3. See yourself in a beautiful location. This is where you need to call for your creativity!
4. Go where you love to be the most. This can be an imaginary location or somewhere real, where you know you can be happy and feel safe.
5. Imagine a glass door. You only have the key for this door.
6. Open the door and walk through this door.
7. When you reach the other side, you will find all the potential and infinite possibilities of your life.
8. Choose the one you desire.
9. See yourself pregnant, holding your baby and talking to friends and family about your experience. Create this experience in your mind as clearly as possible.
10. Feel the happiness this brings you. Stay here as long as you can.
11. Come back every day to create even more happy visualization experiences.
Please, dare to dream! This is very important!
"The emotional and the physical work together. Healing at the emotional level is closely connected to healing at the physical level. Choosing to do emotional healing work is a good way to overcome your fears by allowing free energy flow through your body. It speeds up the healing process because you work both at the physical and emotional levels at the same time."
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