Naturopathy for Preconception care

Our naturopaths are particularly enthusiastic about providing expert preconception care for prospective parents. Preconception care is the ultimate in the naturopathic philosophy: “prevention is better than cure”. Ensuring your preconception health is at its best means you will experience less health problems during your pregnancy and give a much better opportunity for your baby’s constitution, vitality and future health.

Healthy life changes and specialised conception protocols form the basis of naturopathic fertility care and can be applied at any stage of your fertility journey, even if you are well down a path of medical intervention, including surgeries or IVF procedures. Our naturopaths can help you in any part of this journey. Whether you are recently diagnosed but not yet ready for IVF, in need of a break from continuous IVF cycles or if you are in a position where you want to continue with IVF with naturopathic care concurrently, we have supportive strategies for any stage. Of great importance is the collaboration with your medical specialists to ensure you have the best care no matter what the stage of your treatment.

Your clinical detective

Your naturopath is a bit like a clinical detective pulling together information from your previous health history, current health issues, test results and other sources to assess your fertility status. Depending on your individual presentation, our naturopaths will incorporate some or all of the following in their diagnostic assessment:

• Nutritional deficiency checks
• Hormonal balance assesment
• Detailed dietary assessment
• Diagnosed conditions such as autoimmune or thyroid conditions
• Signs and symptoms in any system you reveal in your consultation
• A detailed personal and family health history
• Environmental toxin load from work or home

This detail helps your naturopath put together a plan to improve your fertility by optimising the function of cells and tissues, balancing hormones, reducing inflammation, improving nutritional status and addressing pre-existing conditions that may have an impact on your fertility – even if in an indirect way. Particular care is also taken to ensure they support the most important areas for fertility such as supporting your nervous system, stress levels and stress responses, uterine lining support, egg quality, hormonal balance, sperm development in males and specific issues such as poor responders in IVF treatment situations.

Your plan will always include diet and lifestyle interventions specific to you, which is also appropriately combined with nutritional supplementation if required.  Your naturopath may also recommend support from other practitioners or be in communication with other carers to ensure comprehensive care and optimum results. The aim is to ensure you have sufficient energy and nutritional status to conceive, experience a healthy pregnancy and go on to have a healthy, happy baby!

Patients consistently report that with naturopathic support they feel:

• a sense of empowerment and understanding through education and support
• increased energy and sense of wellbeing
• healthier reproductive cycle with more awareness of ovulation and timing
• less stressed and better sleep
• improvement in general health and presenting symptoms

At Feeling Healthy, you can be confident that your naturopath is highly qualified and experienced.

To book an appointment with a Naturopath, click here or call us on 9687 5333