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Conception Journey

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At Radiant Chi, we encourage you to be mindful of your entire health and wellbeing with regards to conception.  This includes your lifestyle choices, such a foods, toxins, stress management, sleep hygiene and digestive health, as well as your reproductive health.  These diet & lifestyles choices have significant impact on our reproductive & hormonal health.  

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Simple steps you can start before working with your practitioner are to review your diet, reducing sugars, processed foods and lower foods that create inflammation are useful for conception, click here to review foods that increase/decrease inflammation. 

 

Reducing toxins in our environment is also really important, you could consider the following: 

• Switch from plastic to glass to remove Xenoestrogens and BPA, using glass containers for food storage and drink bottles.

  • Food storage:

    • Use mesh bags for food in the fridge instead of plastic.

    • Use beeswax or vegan soya wax coverings for dishes inside the fridge, or for lunches.

  • Remember never to put warm food into any container which has plastic – including these which are glass but have plastic lids. Heating plastic is to be always avoided if possible.

  • Above all, do not reuse plastic bottles, and especially don’t to leave them in the sun before drinking from them.

• Reduce plastics and chemicals in cooking:

  • Instead of foil, for grilling try stainless steel grill baskets.

• Reduce ingestion of any chemicals (processed foods, refined sugars)

• Switch to cleaning products that avoid chemicals, there is several available in the stores now.

• Review your sanitary products and beauty products to lower toxic brands, to avoid toxins being taken in via the skin which is our biggest organ.

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Useful Links

Your IVF Success

Your IVF Success page is funded by the Australian government providing you with an independent source to IVF success rates in Australia.  
https://yourivfsuccess.com.au/

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Research Links 

Research related to gynecologic disorders, IVF and pre-conception and aiding fertility goals 

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A Combined Use of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Long Dan Xie Gan Tang for Treatment of 36 Cases of Chronic Pelvic Inflammation, Jin Yabei

https://www.journalofchinesemedicine.com/the-journal/jcm-article-archive/diseases/a-combined-use-of-acupuncture-moxibustion-and-long-dan-xie-gan-tang-for-treatment-of-36-cases-of-chronic-pelvic-inflammation.html

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Acupuncture for pain in endometriosis​​

https://www.cochrane.org/CD007864/MENSTR_acupuncture-for-pain-in-endometriosis

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Acupuncture for premenstrual syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.02994.x

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Acupuncture for period pain

https://www.cochrane.org/CD007854/MENSTR_acupuncture-period-pain

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​Acupuncture for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review

​https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2010.02489.x

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Acupuncture and acupressure for premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

 https://www.cochrane.org/CD005290/MENSTR_acupuncture-and-acupressure-premenstrual-syndrome-pms

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​Pregnancy & Postpartum Journey 

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Radiant Chi loves hearing about the supportive journey ladies experience from engaging midwives or doulas for their pregnancy care. 

There are several ways to do this and we have some links to businesses in our local area who can provide this support, check out our "Friends with Benefits" page. 

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Research Links 

Research related to pregnancy and post partum

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​​ Safety of acupuncture during pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study in Korea 

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.15925

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​Acupuncture as an adjunct to standard treatment for pelvic girdle pain in pregnant women: randomised double-blinded controlled trial comparing acupuncture with non-penetrating sham acupuncture

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2008.01904.x

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