Fertility Acupuncture
It can be a very stressful time, if you are struggling to become pregnant or are undergoing assisted conception treatments.
A couple’s fertility depends on many factors, such as constitution, age, lifestyle, diet, and stress levels.
If there are no diagnosed reasons for infertility (male or female), having acupuncture can help to strengthen both partner’s constitutions and balance the body’s systems and together with dietary advice and lifestyle changes can help optimize your chances of becoming pregnant and having a healthy baby.
There are many research studies that suggest having acupuncture may help in various areas relating to fertility, conception and pregnancy and that it can be a positive and beneficial treatment to enhance the chances of natural conception or to support the process of assisted conception.
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I was recommended to have acupuncture when I started having IVF. A friend who had sought fertility support recommended Sarah and I am so pleased she did. With over 20 years of experience and specialising in acupuncture to support fertility treatment, I felt I was in very safe from our first session. She even did a home visit after my embryo transfer. I am now happily 23 weeks pregnant and still enjoying acupuncture treatments with Sarah. I am so grateful to have been under her care during what has been a very challenging and emotional time. She is an amazing practitioner and her patients know they are in the very best of hands.
Acupuncture treatment can benefit fertility outcomes by:
- Regulating menstrual cycle
- Counteracting polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
- Lowering stress hormones and regulating FSH
- Improving blood flow to the pelvic area, ovaries, and uterus.
- Improve the condition of the endometrial lining of the womb
- Reducing contractions of the uterus
- Helping to improve sperm health
- Regulating immune system
Scientific studies have shown that acupuncture treatment supports fertility and helps to increase your chances of pregnancy by:
- Regulating fertility hormones
- Increasing blood flow to the reproductive organs
- Improving the thickness of the endometrial lining
- Improve embryo quality and egg production
- Improve sperm quality (sperm count, morphology and motility)
- Enhancing luteal function
- Regulating follicle stimulation hormone (FSH)
- Normalising cortisol and prolactin levels on IVF medication days
- Promoting embryo implantation
- Strengthen immune system
- Helps to reduce stress and anxiety levels
I have specialised in acupuncture for fertility, IVF, ART and pregnancy for many years. In 1997 and 1998 I interned with Zita West at her acupuncture antenatal clinic at Warwick Hospital and again with Sarah Budd in 2000 at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, where Sarah was the first midwife to set up an acupuncture service for pregnant women in the NHS. During 1999-2002 I ran a multi-bed fertility and pregnancy clinic at the College of Traditional Acupuncture, Leamington Spa.
Whilst running my clinics, I have lectured at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, on acupuncture during pregnancy and ran workshops for trainee midwives at Oxford Brookes University, on the use of moxibustion for helping to turn breech babies and on acupuncture for antenatal and postnatal conditions.
As a certified Tui Na practitioner (Chinese therapeutic massage based on the acupuncture points and meridian channels), I have found it very effective to combine both acupuncture and Tui Na techniques to assist my fertility clients.
I have been a contributor to Pregnancy and Birth magazine and to the National Childbirth Trust publications (NCT) and was a member of the Acupuncture forChildbirth Team (ACT) Oxfordshire.
For all appointments or enquiries, please call me on 07485 042302
or email: enquiries@sarahbrownacupuncture.co.uk
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