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Conception & Pregnancy

Conception Journey

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.

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.

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/

Research Links

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

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

Acupuncture for pain in endometriosis

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

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

Acupuncture for period pain

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

Acupuncture for primary dysmenorrhoea: a systematic review

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

Acupuncture and acupressure for premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

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

Moxibustion delays ovarian aging by regulating mitochondrial biogenesis and improving oocyte quality

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41957658/

Effect of electro-acupuncture on the spindle and oocytes quality in patients with PCOS

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25951635/

Therapeutic effect of acupuncture on the outcomes of in vitro fertilization: a systematic review and meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27995371/

Different effectiveness of acupuncture treatment schedule on ART pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40979715/

Pregnancy & Postpartum Journey

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.

Research Links

Research related to pregnancy and post partum

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

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

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

Acupuncture for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39214380/

Traditional Chinese acupuncture and postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31259837/

Effectiveness of acupuncture in postpartum depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29907576/

Effects of Acupressure on Lactation: An Integrated Review

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36227074/

East Meets West: Effect of Acupuncture on Lactation and Maternal Quality of Life

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38535968/

Complementary and alternative therapies for pain management in labour