Acupuncture for Fertility
(Natural and IVF)

How can Acupuncture help you through your fertility journey?

Acupuncture improves blood flow to your reproductive organs (ovaries and uterine lining)

An increase in ovarian blood flow may assist with your response to fertility medication thus optimising follicular development. An enhanced blood flow also improves uterine receptivity which may encourage thickening of uterine lining. 

Acupuncture reduces the stress response

Acupuncture leads to an overall state of relaxation, from relaxing your muscles to allowing you to breath deeper and slower to an overall peaceful state of mind. This calm response from Acupuncture helps IVF patients feel more relaxed during their fertility treatment, and as a result, also feel more “in control.”  Stress hormones can interfere with ovulation and implantation and the stress response can also lead to a reduction of blood flow to your reproductive organs, so a more relaxed state of mind indirectly helps with nourishing your ovaries and uterine lining.

Why would you use Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as an adjunct therapy to fertility treatments?

Traditional Chinese Medicine is all about bringing balance to a system. As a TCM practitioner, Naseema looks at your fertility diagnosis, considers your general state of health, what is working and what is out of balance and sets about working at restoring your body in readiness for conception. This gentle approach can be a useful adjunct therapy to IVF as well as a great stress-buster when things get a little overwhelming.