fertility & Women's Health

At Thrive Acupuncture & Wellness we are passionate about helping women and their partners grow their families. We understand the stress associated with infertility. Whether you have been trying for six months or 5 years, infertility can wreak havoc on your quality of life, causing stress, anxiety, depression, and feelings of hopelessness. Western fertility treatments also have side effects and can be hard on your hormones, digestion, mental health, and more. At Thrive, helping couples conceive and helping families realize their dreams is our greatest joy - we love to walk beside you through the journey to help you realize a healthy pregnancy, and a healthy mom and baby. 

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine offers couples who are struggling with fertility an all-natural approach to enhancing and supporting their natural ability to conceive a healthy pregnancy. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine help the body in a variety of ways achieve a more optimal state of health, thus allowing natural fertility to flourish and pregnancies to be conceived. Whether you or your partner are dealing with male or female infertility (or both), there is hope to conceive naturally with the help of Chinese medicine.

We have experience in helping people whether their infertility is due to primary or secondary causes. If you experience inflammatory conditions and hormone imbalance such as endometriosis or PCOS, we can help you. If you have unexplained infertility, we can help you. If you have had recurrent miscarriages, we can help you. If you’re of “advanced” maternal age, we can help you. 

We also work with couples undergoing Western fertility treatments such as medicated cycles, IUI, and IVF. The combination of Western and Eastern fertility treatments can work very synergistically, and many couples have successful pregnancies resulting in utilizing both modalities. Western fertility treatments, especially IVF, can be very demanding on the body, and Acupuncture helps to offset the negative side effects of those treatments, and boost the body’s own innate fertility and capacity for conception. If you like to look at the science, there are many studies that show the power Acupuncture can have in combination with IVF.

We offer ongoing weekly or bimonthly acupuncture appointments for women trying to become pregnant and/or undergoing fertility treatments. At your initial acupuncture appointment, your acupuncturist will do a thorough intake, and medical exam, and help create a plan for your acupuncture treatments. Women who are concurrently undergoing IVF treatments are typically recommended weekly acupuncture, while other women who have ‘regular’ menstrual cycles may be recommended bimonthly acupuncture. 

Your course of treatment is tailored to you - your health and your goals - and will be evaluated by your acupuncturist over time. While we can never make any promises about a couple’s success with becoming pregnant while undergoing acupuncture treatments, we often will see couples conceive within a 3-12 month time frame.

Chinese Medicine has a several thousand-year long history of helping women with specific women’s health concerns. These concerns include: hormone imbalance, irregular menstruation, painful menstruation, heavy menstruation, pre-menstrual syndrome, peri-menopause & menopause related symptoms (hot flashes & night sweats, brain fog, low-libido to name a few!).
 

If your health feels like it goes down the toilet every 28 days and you suffer when your period arrives (and no, you don’t want more hormonal birth control - been there done that!), OR if you’ve been diagnosed with PCOS and have been missing a period for years, OR if you’re not having an easy transition through peri-menopause and menopause, we can probably help you and we’d be thrilled to help you! 

We are passionate about women finding non-pharmaceutical and low-intervention ways of managing their reproductive health - meaning no invasive surgeries (you get to keep all of your organs), no hormonal birth control, and as you heal, you watch your whole health improve. We utilize a blend of acupuncture and herbal & dietary therapies, to help you have your best cycle and flow easefully through all of the transitions of womanhood.