When assessing your potential for conception, age must be taken into consideration. I see many, many patients have healthy happy babies through their forties.
Because you are getting older does not mean that your egg quality is bad. We have to look at the whole person from the inside out. How have you taken care of yourself? How many years have you been on birth control and told your body not to conceive? Do you believe you can conceive? The mind and body work together to form who we are.
Restoring Harmony To Your Body
Chinese Medicine is all about creating harmonu within the human body. It is the vital essences which makes up each and everyone of us. In order to have a healthy baby we must have both a healthy female and healthy male essences. This means that our liver, heart, spleen, kidney, and lungs must all be working together in harmony. What do you think happens when we don't take care of our bodies? The only answer is that we are no longer in harmony. There are many ways that you can get help to bring your body back to harmony. Let's say you decide on IVF and you go in with balancing the body, just as you are, or you see a Acupuncturist who teaches you how to restore your body back to a balanced state -- Studies have shown that Acupuncture does help the rates of IVF being successful.
In order to get the best results, changing your diet, exercising and receiving acupuncture for 3-6 months before the IVF makes a lot of sense. If you are going to spend a lot of money on a procedure why not get your body in balance. Some say because it is expensive. But, if you stop and think about it, it is much less expensive to have the procedure work the first time. Compared to other forms of infertiltiy treatments acupuncture and herbal medicine is not that expensive, and you will know that you are doing everything you can to help your body be the best it can be.
Consult a physician before making a major life change. These are tips -- only my opinion/suggestion. These viewpoints should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of any ailment. This is not medical advice -- just my thoughts. If you have any questions please consult your physician.