Podcast EP 53
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[00:00:00] I was recently scrolling on the ticky talkie and saw a whole bunch of posts about the great lock-in of 2025. And sis, I'm here for it. I am all about it. Let's focus on our goals for the next four months. But I found a lot of it was talking about business, finances, spirituality, but not many people were talking about fertility.
Hi, I'm Sophie Byfield and when I decided I was ready to be a mama, I thought it would be so easy. Get off birth control. Baby dance, like no one's watching. And poof, I was pregnant. But like many of you, that wasn't my story. After months of negative tests, endless treatments, and more supplements than you can count, I realized that getting pregnant isn't about fixing one piece of your fertility puzzle. It's about bringing your whole body. Back into balance so it feels safe enough to conceive. And this is where we focus on what really matters. Healing your whole body so that you can see those two pink lines. Welcome to the Heal to Conceive podcast.
Usually when we start trying to conceive, we start with this notion, this idea that it's gonna be super easy, and for some people it's. Some people just start baby dancing without protection and poof, they're pregnant. But for some of us, we can be on this journey for a little bit of time and we get so much information thrown at us, so many different things that we want to try, that we can get to a point where we don't know what is working, if it's working.[00:01:00]
And it can all just be overwhelming. So for the great fertility lock-in cyst, I decided to strip it back down to the basics of getting your body as healthy as possible. So you can see those two pink lines. For this lock-in, we are focusing on one fertility, nutrition, or eating a fertility friendly diet.
Two, moving your body for at least 20 minutes a day. Three. Girl three is all about tracking that cycle so you know exactly when your egg drops or how to change things if you're not dropping an egg. And then number four is meditation, journaling to help release any of the motions that you are holding onto through this journey.
Now, that list does not include supplements, fancy teas, acupuncture, all of these different things [00:02:00] because we are stripping it down to the basics. Truly, everything you eat that goes into the body, nourishes your cells, your embryos, your uterus, all of it. It touches every part of your reproduction. We wanna make sure we are putting in the food and the nutrients that can be best utilized by our body.
Moving our body has so many benefits, like decreasing stress, bringing oxygen to the womb, into the eggs, and removing any toxins from the body. This is why we are focusing on movement now. For tracking your cycle. If you're not understanding when you're ovulating, how long your luteal phase is, if you are bleeding enough, it can really hinder what you should be doing to bring your baby home.
If you've been here for a minute, you know that I [00:03:00] say there's three stages to getting pregnant. One, are you dropping an egg? Two is that egg fertilizing and implanting. And three, can you carry to term. By understanding your menstrual cycle, you are in the best place to understand which one you need to be focusing on.
If you are ovulating, but you're not implanting, then we can be focusing on inflammation. We can be focusing on your lining, making sure that lal phase is long enough, but if you're not ovulating and you're taking supplements for implantation, it's not gonna work. So by tracking and understanding your cycle, we are diving into where we need to focus to bring our baby home.
And then the last thing we're focusing on is releasing any emotions. You've probably heard it, I know I did, [00:04:00] and I absolutely hated it. But when people say, just relax, there is a little bit of truth to it. Your body's response to stress is fight or flight, even survival mode. And when you're in that mode, your body doesn't think it's safe to get pregnant.
So it lowers things like progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, making it harder for you to conceive by releasing and letting go. By journaling, by meditating, by calming the nervous system, we set the body up for success. Now you might be asking yourself, why aren't supplements on there? How come you haven't given us a supplement plan?
Supplements are important, but they are not the star of the show. The foundation and star of the show is your cycle and what you eat and put into your [00:05:00] body. How you move your body all directly affects your cycle. Once we understand the health of your cycle and what is going on with your body, then we can sprinkle supplements on to enhance it.
But if you're just throwing supplements on top, it can really throw off your cycle if you don't understand it or ruin your chances at just getting pregnant. In general, the wrong supplements for the wrong reasons can keep you on this journey way longer, and that is why we are spending this next four months.
Building the foundation of good health for fertility and to get pregnant and see those two pink lines. So how do you make the most of the great fertility lock-in without it leading to overwhelm or burnout? The key is to keep it simple. Jump into my fertility nutrition video where I talk about the most [00:06:00] popular fertility friendly diets and tell you how to pick one for your body.
Next up, if you are not tracking at all, I want you to start with just one method. Start with tracking your LH all the way through your cycle so you can see if you ovulated. If you're already doing lh, I want you to add BBT. If you're already doing BBT, I want you to add cervical mucus. If you're already doing all three, I want you to switch your LH to from the time you stop bleeding right up until your first bleed, because sometimes we have multiple peaks and can miss them.
If you've already got your tracking habit down, great check that one's done. That is easy for you. If you're a data girly like myself here, you can look into fertility technology like an Anita or Amira. I am [00:07:00] an Anita affiliate and the affiliate link is down below if you want to grab one. The next one up is movement.
Let's keep this as simple as possible. Maybe it is 20 minutes of walking, some gentle stretching. Maybe it's five minutes up and down the stairs a couple times a day. Keep it as simple as possible. If you like the gym, then go to the gym most days of the week and on your rest days, do a yoga, do a stretch, do a Pilates, or go for a walk.
It's all about moving your body more than you did yesterday, but don't go from, I'm not doing anything, sitting on the couch to trying to run a marathon. Listen to your body and take it simple. I also want you to note that exercise is a stressor on the body. So if you have not been working out at high intensities for a long period of [00:08:00] time, it is not the time to pick up high intensity exercise, keep it low intensity and keep it consistent.
And number four is mindset. Mindset is the secret weapon of this fertility journey. There are so many people that are struggling in silence in the dark by themselves, heartbroken, devastated, and carrying it all. That has a massive impact on your ability to conceive. Stress in the body, puts the body into fight, fight, and freeze.
And it literally says it is not safe to get pregnant. It's not safe. And more than anything in the world, your body wants safety. And when you have safety, it freezes itself up to reproduce your, your body's actually a very smart machine. So [00:09:00] here's what I want you to do, journal. Write down, release, meditate.
I have clients that are like, listen, I ain't writing anything down. Okay, type it out, voice note it. Anything that is gonna help you release what you are going through out of your body, because you're gonna have the emotions, you're gonna have the hard days, you're gonna experience it all. What we're trying to do is not allow it to fester in the body, so it doesn't impact our ability to conceive.
We're trying to release it and let it go, and that is the great fertility lockdown. Four habits, four months, one, focus your fertility and those two pink wines. I want you to know that you got this, and when you don't got this, I got you. I hope you decide to join us, baby Dust for [00:10:00] all.
