Podcast EP 56
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[00:00:00] Majority of women are taught how not to get pregnant or are put on birth control at such an early age that they don't truly understand their cycle and their body, and when it comes time to get pregnant, they expect it to be easy. I know I did. We expect to get off birth control, just baby dance and poof, we are pregnant.
But that is not the case for many of us. In today's video, we're gonna dive into the five tips and tricks and things that you need to know when you are starting a trying to conceive journey.
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.
So the very first thing I want you to do is to grab a prenatal. Prenatals will help with birth defects, making sure you're getting all of the vitamins and nutrients you need to make your eggs and your body as healthy as possible. Now, there are lots of different [00:01:00] prenatals out there. I want you to pick the best one for you.
So I truly believe in the good, better, best method. If you are not taking a prenatal right now, taking anything is a great place to start. If you would like to get to the next level that is picking a prenatal from a health food store and usually the one that is behind the counter. The best version of a prenatal is getting one that is third party tested, so that means that it is sent out to a private lab to make sure it is the healthiest and the cleanest nutrients available for you no matter where you fall.
Cis, as long as you are taking a prenatal, you are good to. I personally love Beard and Bee, and I'm an affiliate for them, so you can find the affiliate discount code below. But a number of my clients take things like Nature Made, take the Thor take needed. All of them are [00:02:00] great prenatals. Find the one that works best for you.
Number two is to start to understand the health of your cycle. This isn't just about tracking that cycle, the start and end date, it's about truly understanding it in its entirety. Understanding when you ovulating how long your lal phase is, um, if your bleeding days are enough. All of this information is going to tell you the health of your body and your ability to conceive.
Now some people will just be able to implement tracking with LH strips and they'll get their positive, and some of us will need to do a little bit more. Here's the link to the video where I go in depth on learning how to track and understanding your lh. Number three is an important one. If you've been on hormone birth control for a minute, then your body may be outta whack and it may take some [00:03:00] time for it to rebalance.
Hormonal birth control can throw off your body's natural rhythm sis, and when you get off of it, your body needs to get back into sync, give your body some grace and some time to rebalance. Now there's some of us that can get off birth control right away and get pregnant, and there's some of us where it needs to take time to clear our system.
It can take anywhere from three months. Six months I've even seen a year for birth control To completely clear your system and for your body to rebalance, next step is getting baseline testing done. We wanna understand a picture of where we are today. Let's get our a MH done, our FSH, an ultrasound between days two and five to see our anterior follicle count, or just the number of follicles that have the spark of life, and most importantly, your [00:04:00] vitamin D.
It's so important to get your vitamin D done because if you have low Vitamin D, it influences the other numbers and can make your A MH appear lower than it's getting a clear picture of where we are right now really determines the approach we take to take bringing our baby home. Here is the fifth and final one and the one I kind of get the most flack about.
People always blast me on this, but hear me out. You do not need to baby dance every single day during your fertile window every other day, or just peak day and ovulation day will be enough. Sperm survives inside the uterus for up to five days, so you do not need to do it every single day. What I have found working with lots of clients and also being on a fertility journey [00:05:00] myself, is that when you start implementing it or doing it every single day, you can put a strain on your relationship and the risk versus benefit.
Isn't there? So if we know that sperm can live inside the uterus for up to five days, and we know what our fertile window is, we can aim for every other day or even just peak an ovulation day and still mean that, maintain that connection and intimacy inside our relationship. These are the things I wish I knew at the beginning of my journey, and it would've saved me and a number of my clients.
So much time. So you let me know below what do you wish you knew at the start of your journey? And let's start a train going for all of the people who may need a little bit of extra hope and support, drop them all in the comments below. And as always, you've got this. And when you don't got this, I got you [00:06:00] baby dust for all.
