Fertility Enhancement

What is Fertility Enhancement?

Fertility Enhancement is a multi-step process of increasing a couple’s chances of getting pregnant. This process may include a wide variety of therapies such as acupuncture, naturopathy, chiropractic, counseling, hormonal therapy and even IUI and IVF (Intrauterine Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization).

Botanica Wellness Sanctuary offers a wide variety of services to optimize your changes for successful pregnancy. Our practitioners work synergistically to provide the utmost care during this time. Listed below are our Fertility Enhancement Services and their role in boosting pregnancy outcomes.

Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine

Acupuncture has a long-standing and great reputation for increasing both female and male fertility.

It helps to:

  • Regulate the menses – this enables a couple to better predict ovulation, and it ensures that the woman ovulates at the optimal time.
  • Increase the blood flow to the uterus and increase the thickness of the endometrial lining – this allows for a more hospitable environment for implantation.
  • Improve the sperm count, sperm motility, and the percentage of sperm that are normal within a given ejaculate.
  • Help relieve stress



For those couples going though ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology such as IUI, IVF, or a donor cycle), acupuncture can also help to:

  • Regulate the hormones (eg: elevated FSH level).
  • Increase the ovarian response and ovarian function to increase the number of follicles and quality of eggs produced.
  • Reduce the side effects of hormone treatments.
  • Increase and strengthen the immune system.
  • Improve the success rate of IVF – a study done in Germany showed that the addition of two acupuncture treatments increased the success rate of IVF from 26% to 43%.
  • Decrease the chances of miscarriage and increase the rate of live birth.



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Fertility Counseling

Fertility counseling is talk therapy that is used to help couples dealing with various fertility issues. During a fertility counseling session, you talk with your counselor about the emotions that you are experiencing as you struggle through infertility. Your counselor helps you to understand these emotions and aids you in finding healthy ways to deal with these feelings. Fertility counselors also assist you in making decisions regarding fertility treatments and other options, like adoption, that you can pursue in order to become a parent.

Fertility counseling can also address various family or relationship issues that are confounded by infertility as well as various emotional struggles, such as depression, anxiety and self-harming behaviors.

Chiropractic

Internal organs contain nerves that come from the spinal column. If the nerves going to your reproductive system are impaired, your fertility can be impaired. With regular chiropractor adjustments to spinal levels supplying the reproductive system, fertility can be enhanced.

Alongside regular adjustments, the uterine lift has been proven to be highly effective for female health issues, such as PMS and infertility. Several different factors may lead to the need for this maneuver such as pelvic torsion, muscle imbalance, and/or round ligament laxity. These conditions can lead to malpositioning of the uterus. When this organ is not symmetrical and properly aligned, the chemical environment of the uterus changes and can become non-hospitable. By performing a simple external manipulation of the uterus, the alignment is restored, thus allowing for proper physiology.