Preparing for Pregnancy - Sally and Ben

Sally and Ben came to see us for an Initial Consultation. They had been together for a couple of years and wanted to start trying for a baby in six months' time. They both just felt that they were not as healthy as they could be and they wanted some guidance as to how to improve things. We gave them a comprehensive questionnaire to fill in and bring to the appointment. This covered all areas of their lives – what they ate, drank, medical history, how often they had sex, what her cycle was like, how stressful their lives were etc. Both of them had quite stressful jobs and ended up not eating properly several nights a week. They also lived on takeaways at the weekend. Sally had no idea what her cycle was like and didn’t know how to tell when she was ovulating. 
 
First of all we suggested that they saw the clinic’s nutritional therapist who worked out an eating plan for them that was easy to incorporate into their lives. To reduce the stress levels created by their working lives, we referred them for a breathing dynamics session. This session gave them simple techniques they could use at home or work whenever they felt stressed.  Sally booked in to see our Fertility Awareness Specialist who taught her how to recognise the signs that her body was ovulating. It turned out that she was ovulating quite late in her cycle so she was very pleased to have discovered this – otherwise she would be missing her ‘window of opportunity’! We recently had a thank you card from Sally and Ben who conceived successfully 2 months after they started trying.