Finding it difficult?

It’s always hard when you are trying month after month for a baby, and it isn’t happening. In fact, it takes an average of eight to twelve months to conceive and for most people there is more an impatience than an inability to conceive. In our experience, the important thing if you are at this stage is to take a comprehensive look at all the physical, emotional, psychological, and lifestyle factors that could be affecting you and your partner’s fertility alongside all the usual medical diagnosis and investigations. Making a baby is a whole body event and things like weight, fitness, how well you’re eating and sleeping, and work-life balance all have important roles to play too and can often make the difference between conceiving successfully or not. Particularly the older you and your partner are.

The good news is that there’s usually lots of things to try that may help, that you may not have considered up until now.

It can be really important that you’re both eating and drinking all the right things too.The quality of your eggs and sperm as well as other metabolic factors linked to your fertility are closely tied to your nutritional health and it’s very important to make sure that you’re both getting the right supply of all the most critical vitamins and minerals.Even if you think you’re on top of all this we’d always recommend that you both take some good quality specialised supplements as well, if only as an insurance policy. Many couples who seem to have healthy and well balanced diets can still be failing to get all the nutrients they need. Missed and rushed mealtimes, smoking, drinking and stress, and the depleted nutritional value of many farmed foods can all lead to poor digestion and dietary deficiencies. The food that goes into our mouths doesn’t necessarily end up going into our bodies! We’ve a great range of vitamin and mineral supplements specially developed to help fill in any gaps.

Acupuncture may help too. Thousands of women also use acupuncture to help support their fertility and prepare them for conception. We have a national network of Zita West affiliates all of whom are specialists in the use of acupuncture for fertility and pregnancy.