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3 Reasons Unexplained Infertility Can ACTUALLY Be Your Lucky Break

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3 Reasons Unexplained Infertility Can ACTUALLY Be Your Lucky Break

Unexplained infertility is a diagnosis that can drive you crazy when you want to start a family. But, if you dare to do some out-of-the-box thinking, it can become your lucky break. 

If you were to follow the most common treatment road, your first step in fixing the unexplained infertility problem would be the step advised by most fertility specialists worldwide: a prescription for Clomid (Clomiphene Citrate), the aspirin of fertility drugs.

The use of Clomid is usually paired with intrauterine inseminations, depositing the striving sperm of the dad-to-be into as favorable spot for fertilization as possible.

If that doesn’t work, you’ll be told to move on to the big guns of IVF (in vitro fertilization). That’s when you stop trusting the sperm to find his mate, instead you place them in a petri dish, or in some cases actually inject the sperm right into the egg. In baby making jargon, that’s called ICSI or intracytoplasmic injection.  

If your luck still doesn’t turn, you may very well end up going for ten (in some extreme cases, as many as twenty) in-vitro cycles.

This cookie cutter approach to treating a challenge as mysterious and complex as unexplained infertility, can wreak havoc on your hormonal balance, deplete your bank account and get you to run faster and faster to catch up with your last good egg before your next birthday.    

So, if this potential scenario doesn’t appeal to you, you could also consider an entirely different road to decoding the mystery of your unexplained infertility — a radically holistic path called the Fertile Heart OVUM Program.

That’s a path that might even give you a chance to save your life.

On that road, the label of unexplained infertility means good news for three reasons:

  1. The obstacle to pregnancy has not yet shown up on a physical level. But your body is not attacking you. You’re simply being asked for help with the labor-intensive task of preparing a safe first nursery for your child
  2. The narrowly defined battery of tests focused on charts and graphs have failed to pinpoint the problem. Charts and graphs tell only part of your story.
  3. Your body is actually giving you a chance to discover hidden issues in your tissues. This could be depletions on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. Now you have an awesome reason to heal those imbalances and save yourself from a way more challenging health threat later in life.

The choice is yours.

You can follow the Clomid/IVF formula that can wreak havoc on your cycles and pull you into a black hole of repeated failures.

Or, use the stories of women like Gen, Catherine, and countless other Fertile Heart mamas who not only conceived naturally after more than 5 years of unexplained infertility, they also found a brand new way to think about their bodies and their lives. Their stories might well become the fertility drug you’ve been searching for.

Julia Indichova is the author of The Fertile Female: How the Power of Longing for a Child Can Save Your Life and Change the World and Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair & Statistics. The Fertile Heart™ Ovum Practice is an original fertility enhancing program that emerged through a decade and a half of counseling.

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