Getting Pregnant – Improve Your Fertility and Chances of IVF Success
If you’re struggling to get pregnant, or you’ve been given a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, then this book is for you. The book is for every couple trying to conceive and has fascinating advice taken from Lois’s 20 years of experience working with couples who are trying to get pregnant. Lois believes that whether a couple are trying naturally or are about to embark on IVF fertility treatment, there is a lot they can do to enhance their fertility and chances of success.
The book includes:
- Detailed guidance on understanding your menstrual cycle, ovulation and fertile time
- How to improve your fertility awareness and recognise your fertility signals
- When and how often to have sex
- Checking for problems with your fertility
- The toxic foods that may potentially be damaging your eggs and sperm
- The lifestyle and environmental factors that may be stopping you from getting pregnant
- Eating to maximise fertility and create healthy eggs and sperm
- Balancing your blood sugar levels
- Getting back to basics and including Superfoods in your diet
- The vital nutrients for fertility – what they are and which foods will supply them
- Which supplements you should take
- How to minimise the risk of miscarriage
- How to use charting your Basal Body Temperature to predict when you will be fertile
For couples who are considering assisted conception the book explains the various options open to you:
- Follicular tracking
- Ovulation induction
- IUI (Intra Uterine Insemination)
- IVF (In-Vitro Fertilisation) – the long and short protocols
- ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection)
- How to prepare for an IVF cycle
- What you can do to support the treatment
- Acupuncture and IVF
Lois has specially recorded 12 guided meditations which can be downloaded from her website. (Download instructions are in the book.) The meditations include the following tracks:
- Preparing to get pregnant. ( for both of you to listen to)
- The down regulation phase of an IVF/ICSI cycle.
- The stimulation phase of an IUI/IVF/ICSI cycle.
- Pre egg collection IVF/ICSI cycle.
- Post egg collection IVF/ICSI cycle.
- Pre embryo transfer IVF/ICSI cycle.
- Post embryo transfer IVF/ICSI cycle.
- Pre treatment for IUI.
- Post treatment for IUI.
- The 2 week wait.
- One for the men, visualising healthy sperm.
- Stress relief (for both of you)
“I rarely stayed awake all through one of these guided meditations, your voice is so soothing and relaxing. I can only say that I was far better prepared and relaxed for my last IVF cycle and I am now a proud mum.” Lisa C. Coventry
These meditation tracks are totally free and only available when you purchase this book.