littlered03
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My DH and I are finally on the other side of testing now and have learned very little besides low morphology (0% first time and 1.5% second time). No varicoceles, everything looks good, hormones are normal. The best urologist in the state that took two months to get in to see said that this is unexplainable and that vitamins, acupuncture, and IUI are probably our only options if we aren't going to try IVF (which we are this time have rules out for financial and emotional reasons).
Someone recommended we read Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility by Sami S. David MD and Jill Blakeway LAc. For months I've cried and cried thinking this is hopeless, and now we are ready to try are hardest to get pregnant naturally or with IUI by changing as much as we can in our life to help aid the process. I just finished reading/skimming the book (a lot of it is skim-able since it gives you a "fertility type" and you can disregard the information for the other types) and I have renewed hope when I thought hope was barely holding on.
If you aren't familiar with the book, here's my little synopsis. It's 350 pages, so it's a little hard to condense into a description, but I'll do my best!
Basically it was written by a reproductive endocrinologist and a doctor certified in Eastern medicine (like Chinese herbs and acupuncture). Together, they have helped over 4,000 couples conceive a child. They believe infertility interventions like IUI and IVF have their place and are wonderful tools, but they feel they are grossly overused. They reported that they believe 75% of couples who go to IVF could have conceived with insemination or without any doctor help just by changing some things in their life (changing the right things).
It is a 3-month program called like a "premester" before you are pregnant. Basically, it is a mixture of eating right, staying away from stress, eliminating toxins, and just making sure you are doing everything you can to prepare your body for a baby. It's not a program you would follow your whole life because it has some crazy guidelines, but for a few months, it seems doable.
The book talks about 5 fertility types and has a little quiz to determine which one the man and woman are based on symptoms (such as period flow, digestive issues, sleep habits, libido, stress, etc.) for both men and women. Then, it gives you a program based on which 1-2 types you fall into. It breaks down diet, how much exercise and what kind, what to do for stress, what herbs could help, etc. It also breaks a woman's cycle into four phases and gives suggestions for things to do during each stage. Then, it also breaks down different diagnoses that many get when going through infertility testing such as PCOS, low FSH, low progesterone, low sperm count, abnormal sperm, and seriously tons more, and then says things that commonly could help with that.
It's a ton of information and pretty overwhelming at first, but we are trying to go the natural route seeing as I'm not even 25 quite yet and my DH is 25, so we have a little time to try this on our own before looking toward adoption or possibly IVF. We plan on doing this for three months and then doing IUI if we haven't gotten pregnant on our own.
We wanted to see if anyone else has read this book, and even more importantly, if anyone else has ever tried it. I'd love to know results!
Here's a link to the book's Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Babies-3-Month-Program-Fertility/dp/0316024503
Someone recommended we read Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility by Sami S. David MD and Jill Blakeway LAc. For months I've cried and cried thinking this is hopeless, and now we are ready to try are hardest to get pregnant naturally or with IUI by changing as much as we can in our life to help aid the process. I just finished reading/skimming the book (a lot of it is skim-able since it gives you a "fertility type" and you can disregard the information for the other types) and I have renewed hope when I thought hope was barely holding on.
If you aren't familiar with the book, here's my little synopsis. It's 350 pages, so it's a little hard to condense into a description, but I'll do my best!
Basically it was written by a reproductive endocrinologist and a doctor certified in Eastern medicine (like Chinese herbs and acupuncture). Together, they have helped over 4,000 couples conceive a child. They believe infertility interventions like IUI and IVF have their place and are wonderful tools, but they feel they are grossly overused. They reported that they believe 75% of couples who go to IVF could have conceived with insemination or without any doctor help just by changing some things in their life (changing the right things).
It is a 3-month program called like a "premester" before you are pregnant. Basically, it is a mixture of eating right, staying away from stress, eliminating toxins, and just making sure you are doing everything you can to prepare your body for a baby. It's not a program you would follow your whole life because it has some crazy guidelines, but for a few months, it seems doable.
The book talks about 5 fertility types and has a little quiz to determine which one the man and woman are based on symptoms (such as period flow, digestive issues, sleep habits, libido, stress, etc.) for both men and women. Then, it gives you a program based on which 1-2 types you fall into. It breaks down diet, how much exercise and what kind, what to do for stress, what herbs could help, etc. It also breaks a woman's cycle into four phases and gives suggestions for things to do during each stage. Then, it also breaks down different diagnoses that many get when going through infertility testing such as PCOS, low FSH, low progesterone, low sperm count, abnormal sperm, and seriously tons more, and then says things that commonly could help with that.
It's a ton of information and pretty overwhelming at first, but we are trying to go the natural route seeing as I'm not even 25 quite yet and my DH is 25, so we have a little time to try this on our own before looking toward adoption or possibly IVF. We plan on doing this for three months and then doing IUI if we haven't gotten pregnant on our own.
We wanted to see if anyone else has read this book, and even more importantly, if anyone else has ever tried it. I'd love to know results!
Here's a link to the book's Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Babies-3-Month-Program-Fertility/dp/0316024503
