Many of us spend our lives trying not to get pregnant and then when we decide to have a family find it’s not as easy as we’d thought.
Couples who experience infertility ride an emotional roller-coaster, facing a barrage of tests to determine the cause of infertility (female or male) before being immediately directed to artificial reproductive technologies such as IVF, ICSI, ovulation induction hormones, artificial insemination, or GIFT. Unfortunately, these advanced technologies are often not as successful as couples hope them to be.
At Remède we take a holistic view of fertility and like to use the analogy that “for a seed to grow, the garden bed must first be made healthy and fertile” – and this means ensuring optimal health of both prospective parents prior to trying to conceive.
Pre-conception care is truly preventative health care at its best. Our specialist natural fertility practitioners can help to assess yours and your partner’s health prior to conception, and prepare a pre-conception plan that enables you to address any health, lifestyle and environmental issues that may affect your fertility and/or the health of your baby. They will ensure that you are in the best health possible to make the healthiest baby possible.
Pre-conception care is individually tailored to meet each couple’s/Individual’s needs, and may involve:
- Comprehensive assessment of each partners health and fertility
- Menstrual cycle tracking
- Detoxification Plan, followed by dietary plan to improve fertility and egg/sperm health
- Lifestyle and exercise plan
- Nutritional supplementation to ensure optimal sperm and eggs
- Hair mineral and heavy metal analysis
- Treatment of specific health concerns with natural medicines
Research shows that pre-conception health care (for both partners) can actively help to improve the chances that your baby:
- does not have congenital defects
- has a healthy delivery
- is content and alert
- will be less likely to suffer from allergies, asthma and behavioural problems
- receive the best start in life
Pre-conception care is appropriate for prospective parents of all ages, stages of life and states of health and will benefit:
- Healthy, fertile couples who want to give their baby the best possible start to life
- Couples who have infertility problems, including “unexplained infertility”, problems with sperm count, sperm motility and high DNA fragmentation; as well as females with ovulation problems, cycle irregularities or length issues, endometriosis, PCOS and other hormonal problems.
- Couples who have suffered one or more miscarriages
- Couples with a previous history of prematurity, malformation, low birth weight, stillbirth or other problems
- Couples undergoing IVF, GIFT and IUI – to improve their success rate of these procedures by undergoing preconception care.
- Older couples, including women over 40 years, to increase the fertility of ‘older eggs’ and to help prevent congenital and other problems.
At Remède, we have a team of natural fertility specialists, including naturopaths, acupuncture and Chinese medicine practitioners and psychologists, who treat both prospective parents for pre-conception care and fertility problems. When it comes to infertility, your practitioner will treat the underlying cause of your infertility, whether it be caused by common problems such as hormonal imbalance, polycystic ovaries, failure to ovulate, poor sperm quality or sperm antibodies, or more complex reasons. It is then a matter of improving the general health status of both parents to create a fertile environment and eventually, the building blocks for a healthy baby.
Click here for more information on Pre-Conception Care, or to make an appointment.
