Fertility

Q: I have just been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovaries and told that pregnancy is unlikely, is there anything I can do?

If you are thinking of getting pregnant for the first time or planning to have another baby it is best to start getting your and your partners body into optimum shape and health at least 3 months before you are planning to conceive. This health and fitness programme should include stress reduction, stopping smoking and alcohol. Three months is also a good gap between IVF treatments. It gives your body a good chance to recover physically and emotionally.

Approximately a quarter of couples have difficulty conceiving at some point in their lives, leading to approximately 1 in 6 consulting a fertility specialist in hospital.

Marilyn Glenville PhD
ISBN 978-1-84483-884-4
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Acupuncture treatment during pregnancy benefits both Baby and Mother. Regular balancing treatments throughout pregnancy enhance the health of the mother, prevent complications and influence the development of the baby.

Reflexology and acupuncture are often hailed as the two key therapies to assist with fertility issues of conceiving, having a good pregnancy and for promising a shorter labour. More than ten years ago I first became aware of the positive influence reflexology has on fertility in my own practice when a client who had come for help getting through a particularly stressful phase in her life suddenly revealed that the treatments had given her regular periods for the first time in her life. She had been given fertility drugs to have all three of her children and she then thought if only she had known of reflexology then.