Trying to Conceive

It’s never too late to start working with a fertility nutritionist even if you are currently trying to conceive. Every step that you take to best support your hormones, your menstrual cycle, ovulation and your mental health has the ability to help you conceive in the future. Working with a nutritionist to get pregnant will help you set the foundations to make healthy eggs (and sperm for the men!) to support fertility, pregnancy and the health of your baby! 

So, someone’s told you that you can’t get pregnant. To that, I have this to say: unless you don’t have a uterus and you haven’t hit menopause, you can get pregnant. Is working on your diet and lifestyle going to spring you into the right direction to help support fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum? Yes. Your body is built to reproduce, the key to helping you get pregnant (and stay pregnant) is to find out where your body (or mind) is blocked, where it can use some extra support through nourishment. Every decision that you make, starting today, has an effect on your fertility and overall wellbeing. Are you ready to start breaking down some of those blockages?

While it’s not required that your husband see me for preconception support for us to work together, I would highly suggest that we at least have a conversation today. Male fertility represents half of the DNA that’s going to your offspring and sometimes infertility can come from your male counterpart! Conception care is a two person job, even if you’ve already been trying to conceive for a few months or a year, and even if the doctors told you “his sperm is fine”. 

Fertility supplement protocols are individually created based on your body’s needs. I try to stay away from supplements unless there’s a need to push things to move a little faster, and I also try to stick to the effectiveness herbal medicine and homeopathy. PS. A magic supplement doesn’t exist, the same way a magic pill doesn’t. Any supplementation used is intended to add support to the body where there is a little lack, not to replace what you’re depriving yourself of.

First of all, try to think of your conception struggles as a nudge from your subconscious self – a nudge that’s saying: “something isn’t right, let’s straighten it out, ok?” You are not broken and you are not a failure. That’s the first thing you need to understand. When it comes to infertility, the other thing to consider is our stress levels (don’t come at me for saying that, but it’s the truth). Stress shuts the body down and hinders fertility – both emotional stress and physical stress. From an emotional standpoint, it can be helpful to implement tools for proper stress management. From a physical standpoint, we can work on some of the foundational tools to help bring balance back into the body before diving deeper into some of the chemical, mineral, bacterial, or fungal imbalances.