let’s make some babies.
Acupuncture helps regulate hormones, lowers serum cortisol levels, thickens the endometrial lining, helps to increase egg quality, and improves success rates in embryo transfers.
It can also make you happier, reduce your stress levels, bring down your anxiety levels, and help prepare you for when your world to turn upside down because mama, you’re looking to have a baby!
fertility health is women’s health.
Acupuncture isn’t just for magically making babies — it works because the person who’s doing all that internal work for making the baby? Her health matters. Your health matters.
Empirical studies didn’t even think to add women in as subjects until 1987, and it wasn’t until about a decade later that women were regularly studied. Why? Women’s hormonal fluctuations made us too confusing to study. Women had too many variables, it was reasoned, and that led to poorly designed and executed studies.
That also means women were literally, completely ignored when it came to pharmaceutical research until nearly the 21st century.
Acupuncture has been helping to regulate women’s menstrual cycles for thousands of years.
It is quite literally made for all those variables. (Which, incidentally, is one of the main reasons it tends to perform poorly in empirical studies.) We work from the ground up with your menstrual health, and we 100% make this about your body and how we can best bring it into a state of homeostatic health.
Growing your family is a major life change.
Whether you already have children or you’re looking to have your first, it’s a big deal to make a human being and then bring that human into this world.
It’s also a big deal to become a mother. Matrescence is the name for what it means to become a mother, and we here at Well Collab Acupuncture know all about how important it is to hold space for that process.
One of the most intense parts of parenthood is the ever increasing expanse of space that you are expected to hold: for your children, for your partner, for your family.
Acupuncture has a unique ability to hold that space for you.
what role does acupuncture play in pre-pregnancy?
Acupuncture works to optimize the body — i.e. the future home to a future fetus! It can smooth out your hormones, clear up your PMS, make your period a breeze… and we get that that’s not what you’re coming in, but those things are important precursors to pregnancy.
Pre- and Post-Embryo Transfer
On the day of embryo transfer, we provide pre-transfer acupuncture with a specific protocol. Post-transfer, you come right back for a separate protocol. We encourage you to come as close to your time of transfer as possible.
how often can i come during pregnancy?
As much as you want! Some people feel they need weekly sessions for the duration of the pregnancy; some people disappear until week 38 and they’re ready to pop!
Our ethos is: more is more. Bodies are constantly undergoing different iterations of stress, and acupuncture helps to remove the film of what’s been left behind. We also are creatures of habits and patterns, and acupuncture can help to rewire us towards health. This is important during any time of your life (so if you’re reading this and you’re not looking to get pregnant, that’s cool — feel free to come in, anyway!), but during pregnancy you’re stressin’ for two.
Our future mama’s love their regular acupuncture sessions and how it helps them deeply relax.
does acupuncture help prepare for labor?
We love it when those people who crop up around week 38 commit for the next couple weeks because time and again, we see that when you get a bunch of acupuncture just prior to giving birth, that birth can go a lot smoother. Moms tend to be a whole lot more mentally and emotionally prepared for when the real work and real love begins.
