If you're new to this blog and trying to conceive, I would encourage you to read the sections you missed, in order.
Series Intro
1. Prayer and Submission
2. Finding the Right Doctor
3. The Role of Hormones (you're on it!)
Sections to come:
4. Diet - Hers
5. Diet - His
6. Herbs, Extracts, and Supplements
7. Exercise
8. Chiropractic
9. Acupuncture
10. Massage
11. Timing: Ovulation Calculators, Ovulation Predictor Test Kits, and the Rhythm Method
12. The Fun in Trying :)
If you are trying to conceive naturally, and you have not had your hormone levels checked, it is time.
I would also like to remind you that this is my own personal experience. I am not a Doctor or Naturopath or Dietician. I am just a girl. A girl who's gone through PCOS and infertility, only to prove that it is indeed possible to not only get pregnant naturally, but to be cured of PCOS. Medical websites will say, "although there is no cure for PCOS, there are effective treatments..." This was unacceptable to me.
So, after step 1, and 2, I was told I had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. If you click PCOS, you can educate yourself on the array of wonderful things that 1 out of 15 women experience. My Doc could tell me without an ultrasound that I had it, but I got one anyway. The images showed my ovaries were irregularly shaped with what looked like a pearl necklace of cysts all the way around them, being worse on my left. Interestingly, most of my aches and pains are worse on my left side.
She scratched over the surface of the remaining steps that I cover and will cover, which hey, most doctors wouldn't even touch. She had to inform me that after all that, chances were I still wouldn't be able to get pregnant, and if by some chance I did, miscarriage was probable. Of course, there were drugs which would "help" as well. Oddly, I felt relieved. I finally had some answers and a gentle reminder from God that He is the great physician.
Now that I was armed with the knowledge of what was happening in my body - that my hormones are way out of balance and I have PCOS - I threw myself into the VAST research that is balancing hormones.
My dear friend Jaime asked my once, "What in the world did we do before we had our babies?" "We tried to have them," I said.
The next section will cover diet.
Series Intro
1. Prayer and Submission
2. Finding the Right Doctor
3. The Role of Hormones (you're on it!)
Sections to come:
4. Diet - Hers
5. Diet - His
6. Herbs, Extracts, and Supplements
7. Exercise
8. Chiropractic
9. Acupuncture
10. Massage
11. Timing: Ovulation Calculators, Ovulation Predictor Test Kits, and the Rhythm Method
12. The Fun in Trying :)
If you are trying to conceive naturally, and you have not had your hormone levels checked, it is time.
I would also like to remind you that this is my own personal experience. I am not a Doctor or Naturopath or Dietician. I am just a girl. A girl who's gone through PCOS and infertility, only to prove that it is indeed possible to not only get pregnant naturally, but to be cured of PCOS. Medical websites will say, "although there is no cure for PCOS, there are effective treatments..." This was unacceptable to me.
So, after step 1, and 2, I was told I had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. If you click PCOS, you can educate yourself on the array of wonderful things that 1 out of 15 women experience. My Doc could tell me without an ultrasound that I had it, but I got one anyway. The images showed my ovaries were irregularly shaped with what looked like a pearl necklace of cysts all the way around them, being worse on my left. Interestingly, most of my aches and pains are worse on my left side.
She scratched over the surface of the remaining steps that I cover and will cover, which hey, most doctors wouldn't even touch. She had to inform me that after all that, chances were I still wouldn't be able to get pregnant, and if by some chance I did, miscarriage was probable. Of course, there were drugs which would "help" as well. Oddly, I felt relieved. I finally had some answers and a gentle reminder from God that He is the great physician.
Now that I was armed with the knowledge of what was happening in my body - that my hormones are way out of balance and I have PCOS - I threw myself into the VAST research that is balancing hormones.
My dear friend Jaime asked my once, "What in the world did we do before we had our babies?" "We tried to have them," I said.
The next section will cover diet.
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