How do we work with your medical doctor?

There is an old Chinese proverb that goes something like this, “There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view remains the same”. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, very few people are considered to be truly infertile, but are merely imbalanced. At the Natural Fertility Health Centers we prefer to see couple’s conceive without the use of medications and invasive procedures. However, we know that sometimes there are mechanical and anatomically organic reasons why a woman will not be able to conceive naturally, but through western fertility treatments, can still give birth to their own child.

Those women need to see a reproductive endocrinologist, a western fertility doctor. However, our treatments will support you physically, mentally, and spiritually through the fertility procedures. In fact, our Integrated Dynamic Fertility™ program prepares you physically and emotionally for western fertility treatments and relieves the side effects of the medications given as well as increasing the chances of successful conception and birth by 40% to 60%. Most of the women we see in our clinic have sought us out after repeated failure of ART, the acronym for Assisted Reproductive Technology—better known as Western fertility treatments such as IUI (intra-uterine insemination) and IVF (in vitro fertilization) among other treatments.

We explain to potential patients that they should allow at least 90 days or three menstrual cycles (ideally six months, if possible) before they start their ART treatments. That way, through the use of safe, effective, natural methods, we can balance and harmonize her body’s energy, blood and organ functions to produce the best ART response. A woman wants to be as hormonally balanced, and as physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy as possible before any invasive medical intervention, especially one involving the injection of significant amounts of hormones.

Interestingly enough, many of our patients get pregnant during the three to six months before they have their ART procedures. Remember, once the woman’s underlying root cause for her fertility problems is uncovered and dealt with, conception can occur naturally most of the time.

To further address the process of working with your western physician, we send your doctor a letter informing them we are working with their patient. We encourage our patients to consult their doctor’s before beginning treatment with us. But just to ensure coordination of treatments, we send out a letter. Most doctors are receptive to our treatments with their patients. In fact, we receive quite a few referrals from reproductive endocrinologists. Some doctors are interested in our protocols and herbal treatments, and we forward to them the details of our formulas. Western trained physicians usually like the fact that we focus on stress reduction and help relieve the side-effects of their medications and procedures. ART is very stressful physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to a woman.

However, unlike reproductive endocrinologists, we work with you well after you have conceived. We continue to treat you through your pregnancy and even post-partum. After conception, we work with your OB and/or mid-wife staying in touch with them throughout the pregnancy. In fact, our patients’ doctors have remarked on how often our patients have had “model pregnancies” right out of a textbook. This is due to our program of keeping a woman’s body in balance during the pregnancy. The birth and post partum period is generally also medically uneventful, and thus pleasurable for the new mom and new dad.