Orlando, FL – It’s National Infertility Week! Are You The 1 in 8 That Has Problems Conceiving?

April 19th through April 25th is National Infertility Awareness Week!

Infertility is estimated to affect as many as 15% of couples in the United States. Of these couples, men and women contribute just about equally to the causes of infertility. Because infertility is so prevalent, many men, women, and couples choose to seek medical help when they are unable to conceive despite their best efforts.

The most common types of fertility treatment used in Western medicine are fertility drugs, taken as either pills or injections. Some of these drugs are used to cause your body to ovulate while others “regulate” various reproductive hormones. Though the success rate with fertility drugs are around 30% after several cycles of use, they aren’t without drawbacks and side effects. Symptoms like hot flashes, headaches, and depression, in addition to physically painful side effects like breast pain, pelvic pain, and ovarian cysts can occur. Also, these treatments can be very expensive, with injection treatments costing between $1,000 and $5,000 each month.

Where Western Fertility Medicine focuses on the “black and white” medical causes of infertility, holistic medicine treats body as an interconnected system and seeks to address the causes of infertility at its core, looking for the underlying causes, all with less risk and side effects.

Both Western and holistic fertility medicine have their place in field the reproductive health. Depending on the cause of your (or your partner’s) infertility, either one or the other, or a combination of both might be the best fit for you. Certain (albeit few) causes of infertility are best treated through surgery, others through interventions like IUI or IVF. However, a sheer plethora of causes of infertility, including bit not limited to PCOS, endometriosis, irregular cycles, ovulatory dysfunction, luteal phase defect, thyroid issues, advanced maternal age, stress, etc. can be safely and successfully treated through holistic medicine.

7 TIPS to Overcome Fertility Challenges

You can eat well, exercise, take supplements, do several IVF treatments, acupuncture and nothing happens until you learn to let go. 

1. Have Faith in God. 
2. Take time to do an emotional inventory on yourself. What are you holding onto that’s creating an emotional blockage between you and your unborn child?
3. Forgive yourself and forgive others
4. Ask yourself, have you made room in your life for your baby? I’m not talking about the babys bedroom, crib and clothing. Have you changed your life to accommodate the needs of a baby? You can not wait until the baby arrives, you have to make the change now.
5. Accept that you are not in control. We control our careers, our money, education level but the one thing we can not control is mother nature. What we can control is how we nurture her. 
6. Always maintain HOPE. What you believe is what you will achieve. Nobody ever said the road would be easy but HOPE allows you to persevere. 
7. Never accept that it’s impossible without exploring all of your options. Fight for your baby just like your life depends on the air that you breathe.