Getting Pregnant

I’m definitely not closed to natural medicine techniques, and after so many people recommend acupuncture treatment to me – much better advice than getting rid of my cats, I thought – I decided to try it. It seems to be something that can make you generally healthier and deal with various aches and pains too, and the only reason I’ve avoided it in the past is I’m a bit scared. Time to grow up!

I found an acupuncturist (and naturopath) close to where I live and made the appointment rather spontaneously, but I’m glad I went. The practice I chose actually has a lot of patients from my own fertility clinic and another major one in town, and they say the fertility clinics have produced statistics saying that the women receiving acupuncture in conjunction with their fertility treatment have a higher success rate.

And here’s the important (and relieving) news: it didn’t hurt a bit! In fact, lying there with a few needles stuck into me was actually pretty relaxing (as long as I didn’t look down at the needles, because that was still freaking me out a little) and afterwards I felt fantastic. The effect lasted for hours, and is hard to describe – I felt somehow calm and rested, and healthy. Luckily my private health insurance covers a large amount of the cost of acupuncture treatments so I’m going to be going back for some regular sessions in the near future – whether it helps or not, I don’t know, but it certainly can’t hurt.

There’s no shortage of advice around for couples who are trying to conceive. Phew, it’s really everywhere I look. Most of it I tend to ignore because it would drive me crazy to try to do everything people suggest, and half the time it’s contradictory anyway.

So I don’t know why I’m now drinking ginger tea. I read that ginger and ginseng are the magic herbs that might help keep fallopian tubes open. I saw ginger tea in the supermarket the next day, and now I drink it every morning for breakfast in place of my usual green tea. I’m not so keen on the taste (although it’s growing on me) but somehow, it feels at least like I’m doing something to help this whole frustrating conception process.