In Vitro Fertility Goddess
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Hedge your bets and increase the odds of success.
With IVF success rates shrinking faster that Victoria Beckham as you approach forty, not to mention the associated risks and costs, the whole thing can seem like an enormous gamble. And of course it is.
If there was a casino of fertility treatment, the IVF clinic would be the High Roller's room, where you outlay astronomical sums of money you must be prepared to lose as there is a high chance you will.
Meantime downstairs people wander around betting fifty on a bottle of herbs here, or a packet of Chlomid there, hoping with each outlay to hit the jackpot.
Usually IVF is the last option for people, often after years of dabbling in other treatments with no success and this also places the stakes incredibly high.
I have never been a gambler as I hate to have a one in a large number chance of winning, which is why the only horse race I went to I bet on every horse.
So when I unwittingly found myself at 37, with the odds of achieving a successful pregnancy stacking up against me, I started punting on all types of treatments - basal temperature taking, mucous analysis, laparoscopies, Chlomid and eventually herbs.
All the while I was battling my own kind of infertility trifecta - hyperthyroidism, endometriosis and blighted ova.
Yet I believe that it was being on fertility herbs for months before undergoing IVF *, along with lifestyle moderations that optimized my chances of success, overcame the odds and helped achieve pregnancy on the first try. My book In Vitro Fertility Goddess discusses this further.
* At no time did I attempt to combine herbs with the IVF treatment. The IVF clinics absolutely forbid it, the penalty for doing so being the seizure of an embryo or the repossession of your first-born, whichever is applicable. For more on this go to our News link above and have a look at new research published in July 2007 which found that IVF patients who use alternative medicines during their treatment could reduce their chances of having a successful pregnancy.
