Twice a Mommy

Have you been diagnosed as being infertile or believe that you may be having infertility issues? Have you been trying to get pregnant for a year or more without success or just a few months and you are worried because you haven’t been able to get pregnant?

Infertility specialists consider you infertile or suffering from infertility after trying to get pregnant for 12 months without success. The stigma associated with infertility can be devastating and may cause you more undue stress that can further inhibit your ability to become pregnant naturally.

Do not believe the myth that there really is something wrong with you or feel that you will never become pregnant naturally or without the aid of modern medicine. Infertility is not a disease and as long as you still have your reproductive organs it is still possible for you to become pregnant naturally once the obstacles that are inhibiting your ability to become pregnant are overcome. Basically, it is usually not an issue with your reproductive organs that are to blame for the difficulty you may be having getting pregnant.

For most couples, infertility or the troubles that you are having getting pregnant are caused by other contributing factors that can be resolved by making your body healthy again. These days many infertility clinics and prospective parents are turning to Traditional Chinese Medicine and more natural forms of treatment to restore the body to a more healthy state that is conducive to becoming pregnant.

Traditional Chinese Medicine takes more of a whole body approach to treating infertility and restoring balance to the body. Acupuncture, nutrition, massage, herbal treatments and lifestyle changes improve health and vitality to the patient’s body and have been proven in studies to successfully treat a wide range of ancillary factors that might be piece in part of the reasons why you might be having difficulty becoming pregnant.

It is typically not a single factor that is the problem but system wide issues that are often the problem with couples who are having difficulty getting pregnant or who have been diagnosed with infertility. For example, hormone treatment in itself might never allow you to become pregnant if you also have tubal obstructions and your husband is suffering from low sperm count. Read More

If you are infertile or believe that you may be facing infertility issues you are probably overwhelmed with advice, information, tips, tricks both wanted and unwanted. All you want to do is have a child of your own. Heartbreaking as it may be, infertility is often viewed quite callously by friends and family and there may often be times when you are quite selective in who you share this news with.

Those that have never had an issue having a child and who feel that modern infertility treatments are a simple fix for the treatment of infertility have never been in your shoes. Unless they have been through infertility treatments they know nothing of the pain, upheaval and emotional turmoil that these treatments may cause due to the hormones that are often used and the internal dialog that goes on both spoken and unspoken with you and your partner.

Perhaps you have decided to focus on trying to treat your infertility naturally or holistically with various methods that you have read about in books and on the internet. While these methods of treating infertility have been around for centuries you might also be reluctant to put much faith in them or even mention them to friends or family. People tend to think that modern medicine can cure anything and that something that is old is outdated or simply not effective. Such is often the case with natural or holistic cures for infertility.

But take these two points into consideration. Traditional Chinese Medicine and holistic cures for infertility have been around for centuries. Long before there was IVF or hormone treatments or surgeons who would even perform surgeries to unblock fallopian tubes there was Traditional Chinese Medicine for couples who were unsuccessful in becoming pregnant. These methods of treating infertility were not looked down upon or thought of as old wives tales. They were the modern medicine and the end all be all of treating infertility. Nobody ever questioned whether these methods worked or not and many children and families are here thanks to these methods.

Leap forward to the present day. With the recent advent just in the past twenty years of test tube babies, invitro fertilization and a list of ways to treat infertility brought about by modern medicine many couples were still unable to become pregnant. As a fall back, the age old remedies found their way to the forefront of modern infertility treatments when modern methods failed.

When you look at the treatment of infertility just over the past few years you will find that more and more doctors and infertility specialists are actually taking a leap back and recommending that infertility patients incorporate what are basically methods found in Traditional Chinese Medicine and other forms of natural and holistic treatment of infertility. Funny, isn’t it? Read More