Getting Pregnant with PMOS - Naturopathic and Chinese Medicine Insights Creating Healthy Pregnancies's

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For anyone who's listening who has resonated, is there anything, I guess, what's the first step you would like people to take if anyone wants to have a conversation?

I would say to not take no for an answer.

And I think as women we have that intuition, we have that gut feeling.

And so if you feel...

Particularly if you've been told, you know, you need to do IVF or you need to, it'll be hard for you.

If you have this deep inner knowing and people say this to me all the time, I just have a feeling I'm going to fall pregnant naturally and say, listen to that and seek out different opinions.

So, you know, I always say when I got my ACL reconstructed, I spoke to three different surgeons about that.

And so but I do find in fertility, oftentimes we get one opinion and we take it.

So I'd recommend, you know, making those appointments, talking to people like yourself, talking to someone, you know, like myself, a registered acupuncturist or registered Chinese herbal medicine doctor, because we're going to have a different perspective.

I also encourage my patients, every time you book in an appointment with somebody, that person is going to offer you what's in their toolkit.

So when somebody books in with me, I'm going to be offering them the solutions that I have access to in my toolkit.

So I can support my patients with acupuncture and I can support my patients with Chinese herbal medicine.

I can support my patients from a lifestyle perspective, but I'm not a clinical nutritionist or dietician.

So I'm not able to provide a meal plan for my patients.

Likewise, I'm not able to prescribe letrozole.

But when you go to a fertility specialist, they are going to have the tools in their toolkit, which is oftentimes letrozole, IVF or so on and so forth.

So I remind my patients to get lots of different opinions, do your own research as well and find practitioners that really validate your lived experience and can create a clear path forward for you and one that aligns with where you're at, your timeline, your values, and how you want to, you know, how you want your fertility journey to look like.

So, I'm a big fan of a multi-practitioner approach, like a multi-modality approach, because you're just going to hopefully get different opinions that's going to support you to reaching your goals sooner.

Absolutely agree.

And I often get patients saying, why did they just get pushed into IVF? And I say, because that's the tools they have and they want to be able to help you.

So it's not necessarily.

And the difficult part about I find fertility in general versus, you know, if my husband's treating a heart attack, you get the same, you know.

Treatment.