INFERTILITY / MISCARRIAGE

Suffering from infertility and or multiple miscarriages is heart breaking not to mention soul destroying and common.

One in six couples will experience infertility and one in four pregnancies will end in miscarriage.

Infertility can put enourmous pressure/strain  on relationships, it creates an environment of guilt/ blame and also isolation.

At the time of your life when all your friends are going off to kids birthday parties, talking about breast feeding and birthing and attending coffee groups or PND classess you are left feeling more isolated and desperate than ever to share in that experience.

It must be one of the most horrific things to go through if both you are your partner really want that experience, it is what life is about after all.

There are many reasons why a woman may not fall pregnant or suffer from multiple miscarriages.

Your doctor will run tests to find out if there is any underlying medical condition’s in you and your partner to find a probable cause.

In many circumstances infertility can be what is termed as unexplained, this means that there is no underlying medical reason why a woman cannot fall pregnant

Factors can include stress, endometriosis, immune problems, pelvic inflammatory disease, irregular ovulation, hormonal problems, poor state of health/ nutrition to name a few.
Dr John Lee MD on bioidentical hormones believes estrogen dominance is reaching near epidemic proportions around woman in their mid thirties.
Excess estrogens seems to stimulate the ovaries to over produce follicles which combined with delayed child bearing results in early burn out of the follicles.
Dr Lee recommends that these woman use the progesterone cream from day five-26 of their cycle(stopping only to bring on menstruation) and use it only after ovulation.
He recommends not to stop the cream until the third month of pregnancy to prevent the endometrial lining from shedding, causing miscarriage.
Vitamin C, Folic Acid, Omega and Zinc should be used as essential minerals prior to and during pregnancy.
Along with progesterone cream, new research which is having fantastic results but still in its early stages of testing is a procedure called (Lipiodol uterine bathing)
Lipiodol is a poppy seed oil injected into the uterus to help make the egg stick to the endometrial lining, similar to a glue or a venous fly trap to prevent the egg from slipping away.
It will not work on woman who have blocked fallopian tubes or any underlying medical conditions that will prevent the oil from working.
Dr Shelley Reilly on 021 915771 or www.nurture.org.nz will give you more information.
Pregnancy by use of natural methods such as progesterone cream or lipiodol oil can prevent a woman from going through the expense and stress of invasive IVF.