Natural Fertility

Well...after some discussion with Andy, thought, prayer and research I have decided what my next step will be to try and help our infertility. I have been researching natural methods of curing infertility in general and came across this website: http://natural-fertility-info.com/ where I found A LOT of useful information. So I'm going to be changing my diet to incorporate MOSTLY organic meats/produce/dairy and wheat/snack items. I don't want to go crazy and throw everything in the house away yet...so I'm just going to start purchasing more organic as things run out and try to be a lot healthier and get away from processed food, chemicals and hormones. I've heard of miracles happening just from dietary changes and I figure it's worth a try!! :)

So I talked to Andy about it yesterday...he's not as sold on it as I am ..but I'm the one making the changes not him...so oh well! And he said the more power to me if it actually works. And..it's a lot better than continuing the stress of infertility medications on my body and increasing that with IVF medications and procedures.

Also..if anyone sees a naturopathic dr. or a nutritionist that they'd recommend I'd be interested in getting their information as I'd like to talk with a professional about this also.

So...here's to getting my body healthy and ready for a baby!! Bring on the 'Fertility Dense Diet'

My day in pictures...

I had a busy day..but got a lot accomplished :)

Not what we hoped for

Well it seems that we are pretty much back to square one on fertility treatments. The injectible medications DID actually work..but unfortunately they worked TOO well, causing too many follicles to develop which could potentially lead to me becoming pregnant with multiples (not just twins, more like 4+ babies..eek!) and as much as I love Jon & Kate, I don't envy their life with 8 children and our doctor is not willing to put us through the risk trying to get pregnant this cycle could bring. So....he thinks our only option is to do IVF when we are ready for it. This is a VERY big step in the infertility process and neither Andy or I is ready for it yet. So after a discussion we've decided to take a break from 'trying' and see if I can try some natural methods of getting a cycle back.

The first step I'm going to take is a Nutrition Response Test to see if there's anything my body is lacking that could help to restore my menstrual cycles. I'm going to the chiropractor tomorrow and planning on talking to her about it. I know there must be SOMETHING natural that could help...if anyone knows of anyone with similar problems that I've had (hypothalamic amennorhea) PLEASE leave me a comment with any treatments that helped them. I'm pretty desperate to try anything. I am taking this news surprisingly well considering how upset I was last week when the Dr. told us this may be what would happen. Andy is pretty upset about it too, but we know that God has a plan and we are trying to leave this in His hands. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers and thanks to those of you that have been recently, we appreciate it.