Removing Obstructions to your own Natural Healing

To treat women's reproductive health, whether it be painful menstruation or uterine fibroids, is to treat infertility. The foundation of women's reproductive health, home of our emotions and hormones is the uterus. By knowing how your uterus is accumulating, shedding, cleaning out, and where it is actually located, we know about your entire health.

The "fertility specialist" told me that I had a 1-4% chance of ever conceiving using my own eggs. Jennifer and her holistic approach to acupuncture helped me to get myself healthy- mind, body, and spirit. In a month my cycle became more regular, periods less painful, and in 4 months I was pregnant. I now have a beautiful, healthy baby girl. I can't thank Jennifer enough. Dr. T Bartozek

"I am convinced the treatments helped me conceive and have such a great pregnancy." Jaclyn G - Director, Communications and Media Relations

What is the fertility treatment protocol?
At Life Source, we use acupuncture, abdominal massage, herbal infusions and Chinese herbal formulas to bring about your fertility. The affects of these modalities are cumulative and will help to make a profound impact on your health over the long term. Along with the treatments, you will learn how to breath better, and strongly connect with your center of your life source.

After a series of weekly treatments (usually 4-6), then you can come less frequently. One to two times per month is recommended until you have regained the balance you are striving for. Learning to treat yourself with abdominal massage, herbal infusions and breathing, are the methods you need to help yourself on a daily basis.

If you are planning to do an IVF transfer, we strongly recommend that you come the day before and immediately following your transfer. This has been proved to greatly increase your success of implantation.

What can Chinese medicine do for you?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), we treat patterns, not disease. This part is very important to understand. We read the internal landscape of your body by feeling your pulse, looking at your tongue, massaging your abdomen. Through this, we are able to get an understanding of what is happening in your body and mind. The language of TCM is not metaphorical; it represents your internal landscape (saying that you have damp-heat condition means jus that- that internally you have accumulated dampness and heat due to lifestyle, diet and stress)

Here is a list of how TCM specifically has been able to help treat infertility:
a. Improve the function of your ovaries to produce better egg qualities
b. Regulate your hormones to produce a larger number of follicles
c. Increase blood flow to your uterus and increase the thickness of your uterine lining
d. Relax you and decrease your stress
e. Prevent your uterus from contracting
f. Lessen the side effects of drugs used in IVF
g. Strengthen your immune system
h. Decrease your chances of miscarriage
*From Lifang Liang's book "Acupuncture and IVF"

How will Chinese medicine help me to stay pregnant and healthy?
There are many phases to pregnancy; ultimately your health and menstrual cycles for the years prior to implantation are all factors affecting the patterns you will tend to in your pregnancy. Regular acupuncture during pregnancy can help prevent mis-carriage, increase energy, treat any morning sickness or nausea and any other symptoms you may have. The regular use of red clover infusion will help strengthen and tone the uterus. Using herbal infusions and Chinese herbs are a wonderful addition to any other nutritional program you are on.

Can Life Source help me during or after delivery?
Acupuncture can help stimulate labor to begin, help smooth contractions into regular intervals and help with the back pain associated with 'back labor'. Discuss this option with your mid-wife or doctor and have one of us on-call if you would like to try this. The post-partum phase is equally, if not more, important than actual pregnancy. Putting your body back to its energetic strength is crucial to your ability to care for your family. The uterus does not go immediately back to its proper place. If it is prolapsed, you may not know it, and your hormones and menstrual cycles will be very imbalanced. By continuing to strengthen your body and adjust your uterus during this time, you will ensure yourself good health for many years. Supporting yourself with blood building tonic herbs and infusions during this time will help tremendously to regain good health and strength.

What about men?
Men will also benefit from having treatment. Especially if he has been diagnosed with a pattern affecting his partner's fertility, a combination of acupuncture, herbal infusions, Chinese herbs and abdominal massage can help greatly.