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Natural Fertility Management
Natural Fertility Management offers you a program of preconception
health care for conscious conception or to overcome fertility
problems, using holistic, natural medicine, natural medicine,
nutrition, detoxification, stress control and timing techniques.
This program can profoundly improve your chances of a healthy,
successful conception, pregnancy, birth and baby.
In your Natural Fertility Management program for conception
you will learn to recognize the unmistakable signs of fertility
that recur with each menstrual cycle, and, through charting
them, become aware of patterns of change in cervical mucus,
basal body temperature and other symptoms. By combining this
with your personal bio-rhythmic lunar cycle, you can learn
how to optimize the timing of conception. The same charts
will enable a more thorough diagnosis of reproductive health
and hormonal and nutritional balance, ensuring your therapy
program is as effective as possible. Where there is a fertility
problem, a holistic approach is used to explore its origin,
and natural therapies are used to assist healing and normal
reproductive functioning (for both male and female).
Herbal medicines and nutritional supplements will be prescribed
for each individual situation, with appropriate dietary, stress
control and detoxification measures, and these will be revised
on a regular basis until conception occurs. We can then advise
on nutrition and health care during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.
We will also test for a comprehensive range of infections
that can compromise reproductive health.
Conceiving a child
Conceiving a child is a very special, though often unconscious
event. If you are planning to have a child, then the methods
and understanding which you will gain from Natural Fertility
Management will enrich your whole experience, physically,
emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. Once these methods
have been learnt, you can apply them for the rest of your
fertile life. After the birth of your child you can use Natural
Fertility Management methods confidently for safe, natural
contraception until your next conscious conception.
These methods have been combined and refined by Francesca
Naish, a naturopath, herbalist and hypnotherapist, since 1975.
Francesca first devised this approach as an answer to her
own contraception needs. Since then she, and her associates,
have assisted over 10,000 women and couples with their fertility
management from her clinic in Sydney, and her methods are
being used by increasing numbers of health professionals in
Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, USA, UK and w o r l d w
I d e. The Natural Fertility Management program has expanded
to include fertility problems, preconception care for a healthy
baby, reproductive health and sex selection as well as effective,
natural contraception.
At Body Central we have natural health practitioner
who can support your fertility and health needs with holistic
and non-invasive treatments.
The Better Babies Program
- Preconception Health Care
- Overcoming Fertility Problems
Your Natural Fertility Management Program for Conception
consists of :
Personal consultation (preferably for both parents) will cover
the following topics :
- Instruction in optimizing fertility timing at mid-cycle
through the observation of body symptoms, with monthly cycle
charts to record observations.
- Instruction in the use of the bio-rhythmic lunar cycle
- Instruction in how to combine these methods to know how
to prepare for, and make best use of, your fertile times.
- Naturopathic medicine, including dietary and lifestyle
advice, detoxification, herbal medicine and nutritional
supplementation for BOTH parents.
- Tests to diagnose heave metal toxicity and zinc deficiency.
- Counseling to assist the understanding and processing
of the issues and stresses of fertility problems.
- We also offer, and recommend, a through medical preconception
screening, with our medical doctors for infection and other
conditions which could adversely affect a pregnancy or foetal
health.
- Sex selection calculation are available for those with
no fertility problems.
- Regular check-up consultations (usually monthly) are advised
where progress can be monitored, and therapy revised.
The duration and success of the program
Preconception care can only be of benefit if sufficient time
is given for it to be effective in restoring nutritional status,
removing toxins and improving reproductive health before conception
takes place. In most cases, four months is a minimum period
of preparation, and it is important that, whenever possible,
both parents participate in the program and attend consultations.
Although it is very difficult to assess how long any individual
couple with fertility problems may expect to wait before experiencing
a positive outcome, there are some guidelines which you may
find helpful.
- Natural medicines, in general, work gently over a period
of time to correct chronic and long-standing disorders.
- As you progress with your treatment, additional factors
affecting the outcome or diagnosis and chosen therapies
may become evident.
- In a stable treatment situation, we would generally suggest
that if there is no successful outcome after 6 months of
attempting conceptions, that you consider your options This
should be done in consultation with your Natural Fertility
Management practitioner.
Natural Fertility Management is the safest and most empowering
method of achieving a healthy conception current available,
and, in most cases of infertility, offers a chance of success
equal to, or greater than, any other form of treatment involving
drugs and/or surgery. Recent studies by FORESIGHT, the British
Association for the Promotion of Preconceptual Care, give
an over ten-fold reduction in miscarriage, and an over 80%
success rate with unexplained infertility. Congenital defects
are virtually unknown.
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