Experience Fertility Acupuncture with a Women's Health Expert

A 36 year old tries to conceive for 6 years, and undergoes 3 failed IVF cycles.  She and her husband decide to use a donor egg.  She miscarries in the first trimester.  She comesfor treatment preparing for another donor embryo transfer.  Jennifer gives her weekly acupuncture and herbal medicine to clear heat and inflammation from her body.  She feels better, the embryo implants and grows normally. 

A 28 year unmarried woman starts acupuncture treatment for anxiety and irregular periods from PCOS.  She is happy with her results and weekly acupuncture becomes part of her regular self-care routine.  She gets married during this time and starts planning to conceive a few months after her wedding.  She stops contraceptive methods and gets pregnant on her very first cycle.  Her body was well-prepared!

A 39 year old  is referred for acupuncture by another physician.  She is preparing for an upcoming IVF cycle, as her hysterosalpingiogram (a scan to look at her fallopian tubes) shows blockages that would make it difficult or impossible for her to conceive naturally.  She takes Chinese herbs for a few months, along with bi-weekly acupuncture.  A few weeks before her IVF, she come into the acupuncture clinic and exclaims that she is pregnant.  She uses acupuncture to manage anxiety and stress during her pregnancy and gives birth to a healthy baby boy 9 months later.

A 46 year old woman waited a long time to meet her soulmate.  She marries in her early 40s and begins trying to conceive.  She knows it will be difficult so starts acupuncture and herbal treatment right away.  After a few months, she becomes pregnant but miscarries after several weeks.  She is heartbroken, takes some time and gets care and support, decides she is willing to keep trying, even if it means another disappoitntment.  The next month she conceives, and welcomes her daughter to the world several months later.

A 34 year old woman comes to the clinic, "mostly for anxiety" she says.  She has been trying to conceive her second child for 5 years.  Family and friends have stopped asking, but her daughter keeps reminding her she wants a brother or sister.  She has completed and IVF cycle that didn't work, and she's ready to give up.  She gets weekly acupuncture, begins feeling better.  She feels supported and open to trying one last time.  She plans on setting up another appointment with a fertility doctor to try IUI or IVF after the New Year.  Shortly before  Christmas, she finds herself pregnant again with no medical intervention, only acupuncture!

A 32 year old woman with multiple childhood surgeries and a complex medical history comes to to Mama Wren in despair and severe anxiety.  She has just suffered her 4th miscarriage.  Her pregnancies have progressed normally until the 12th week, but each time she has had hemorrhaging of the placenta, and lost her baby.  She has an easily noticed pattern of Blood Stasis in the Eastern Medicine Pattern Diagnosis system.  She begins taking herbal formulation phased with her menstrual cycle, receives weekly acupuncture, and conceives again.  Well into first trimester, she starts to bleed again and feels the same despair.  Jennifer gives changes her herbal formula to support her body in stopping the bleeding while supporting the fetus.  It works, and she goes on to experiences no further complications in the pregnancy.  her daughter is now 3 years old!

A 36 year old woman is having difficulty conceiving her second child.  She has a 3 year old and it  has been over a year since she conceived again, but miscarried and had to have a D & C procedure.  She begins acupuncture and herbal medicine, but is also instructed to return to her gynecologist for re-assessment.  She gets a repeat ultrasound and it is found that previous evaluation had missed scar tissue in her uterus, a rare complication that causes inflammation, adhesions, and makes implantation of the embryo difficult or impossible.  She is schedule with a specialist in this condition, who performs a surgery to "remove the adhesions, she takes estrogen, Chinese herbs, and gets regular acupuncture as healing and repair is not guaranteed after this type of surgery.  The patient's pro-active, holistic approach works, her uterus heals beautifully and within a few months she has conceived her second baby and goes on to have an easy pregnancy and birth.