I'm feeling called to share with you a bit about my fertility journey..
I was seemingly “healthy” on the outside with regular 28ish day cycles post-pill, yet I was on the brink of snapping if I was told “you’re healthy, just keep trying” from my OB one more time.
All I wanted was advice. Guidance. Anything. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO SO I CAN GET PREGNANT ALREADY.
I remember feeling so defeated and questioning over and over, "how long does it take to get pregnant?!"
No one prepares you for the lowest lows you may feel when you’re trying to figure out how to get pregnant.
It was November 2017 when I decided to stop taking my oral hormonal birth control after over 13 years of consistent use. Per the “advice” I was given by my OB when I talked with her 9 months earlier about planning to start our family soon. “You can stop taking your birth control the same month you start trying.”
So that’s exactly what I did. And in my naivetes I totally thought I’d be announcing that I was pregnant by Christmas 2017. Nope.
Three months later I had my annual with my OB and explained we had been trying to conceive but still no positive pregnancy test. I received the infamous, “just keep trying” and was feeling quite frustrated and defeated.
Even as a pharmacist, a healthcare professional, I felt completely lost and disconnected from my body and my natural rhythm/cycle after putting it on pause for 13 years. I did the things that any desperate woman does when she feels control slipping away from her grasp. Going down endless Google rabbit holes looking for THE answer. THE thing that is finally going to get me pregnant.
You wanna know one of the things I bought…some special type of raw, organic peanuts. PEANUTS?!? Like that was going to be the answer to my problems.
I was blinded. Completely consumed by the thought of never getting pregnant. Feeling the urgency and need to get pregnant, like, yesterday.
To make matters worse, as the baby in the family, I decided I wanted to “surprise” my family and my pride and shame got in the way of me ever using my family to lean on during this time of distress. Even after having one sister use IVF to get pregnant and one experiencing a miscarriage, and I still kept them in the dark.
Low and behold, during one of my consults with Dr. Google, I found that acupuncture can be helpful for fertility. Bingo.
I started seeing an acupuncturist around month 7 and did A LOT of inner healing and re-connecting. I finally had someone who was on the same page as me, grounded me and guided me.
I finally felt seen and heard, like I had someone on my side rooting for me.
Around month 9 I had switched OB offices for one closer to where I lived. I chose to see the midwives in the hopes that they would be more naturally minded and inclined to give me real answers.
Nopeeee. Once again, “you’re healthy, just keep trying. But btw if you want to schedule that fertility specialist appt I would get that in the books.”
No labs. No testing. Nothing. Just keep trying and then see a fertility specialist.
Luckily, I was still working with the acupuncturist, using traditional Chinese medicine modalities and healing the damage that birth control (and college life?) had on my body. This also strengthened my mind-body connection and inner healing.
Ten months into our journey, August 2018, my husband was going in one place and I in another during my fertile window. So in our minds, this month was a wash. We relaxed, did our own things and put it on the backburner for a month.
In very early September, I had the faintest positive line. I thought to myself, “that’s odd. I’ll test again in the morning.” Too afraid to let myself get excited or hopeful.
I tested again in the morning, and it was for sure, my first positive pregnancy test.
If you’ve read this far, I want to thank and acknowledge you. I sincerely hope this wasn’t triggering at all, as we all have our own unique and raw stories to tell.
I learned a lot of lessons from mine and I am eternally grateful for it.
It has helped shape me into who I am today, as well as being the spark for my passion, my purpose in life...
To fill the wide gap in healthcare where women aren’t being served, supported or helped, during one of the most miraculous and intimate times in their lives. Instead women are being shrugged off, dismissed and gaslighted. Leaving their doctors offices in tears, feeling hopelessness and dread.
WOMEN DESERVE BETTER.
That is why I am taking my 10 years of experience as a healthcare provider and fertility expert to create a safe conception container to serve as support, guidance, accountability and like-minded community.
Something I longed for on my journey and something that we all deserve on our path to motherhood.
I am so excited to announce that enrollment is now OPEN for you to experience the Confident Conception Method to accelerate YOUR path to pregnancy.
Love and abundance,
Dr. Katie
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