• Acupuncture and pregnancy

Getting pregnant / Fertility

Getting Pregnant and Acupuncture

Your wish to become parent is a deep desire that sometimes requires a lot of patience and effort to fulfill.
If becoming pregnant does not happen naturally, it is frustrating, sad and time-consuming. It can cause stress in your relationship and intimacy.
And you cannot use stress in this phase.
I often see women my clinic who have been trying to get pregnant for a long time, each with her own story.
Mostly, all kinds of research and scans have been done, often revealing nothing abnormal. Good news, but also more frustrating.
Time to look at your body and mind differently.

Fertility and acupuncture

Chinese medicine makes you look at your health differently, your cycle is a wave movement in which different phases alternate.
We look at the balance in your body’s energy. While the first half of your cycle is the Blood energy phase (blood loss, follicle growth and build-up of the uterine lining), the second half is the warmer, yang side of the cycle in which conception and implantation can take place.
There may be a disturbance on one of the two, or sometimes on both sides.
It may also be that you have built up so much stress that there is no longer a proper flow of your energy.

How do we increase the chance of a healthy pregnancy?

We look for possible stagnation, a good distribution of energy, an appropriate temperature at the right time in the cycle and if there is sufficient energy available.
To do this, I hear your story, ask further questions, feel your pulse and your abdomen and look at your tongue to get a complete picture.
We can do various things to optimize your energy, get it in balance and remove stagnations. I work with acupuncture, lifestyle and diet advice, temperature schedules, herbs and moxa.
We can work on it together, possibly in addition to your regular fertility treatment.

 

Personal support in your desire to have children, also during IUI, IVF or ICSI

I provide treatments with real personal attention and involvement.
There is enough time for your story. I think this is important because many fertility treatments often ignore the emotional lives of you and your partner.
In a hospital there is often little time for conversation and real attention.
I believe that this is an important component of the fertility process, as it contributes to the relaxation which is so necessary.
So in my clinic we are in it together.

Contact details

Feel free to email or call me or fill in the contact form, I will be there for you.

06 81743786
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