Our question comes from a woman who says I am 42, my lab tests showed low AMH of 0.19, my doctor has recommended IVF. What do you think my chance of success is? well, there’s a couple parts to address in this question. The first thing I would want to address is, you have to start ignoring the number day after day, month after month, year after year. We see women with numbers like this, succeed in both Natural Conception and with Assistive Technologies. One of the biggest things that we learned over the years, is that these numbers only have meaning if you allow them to, If you believe they do. If you actually want to get pregnant, you cannot let them shape your belief about your fertility potential. The fact is, you can get pregnant and have a baby with low AMH, with high FSH. If you’re 41, 42, 43, as long as you’re healthy, you have healthy eggs and a healthy uterine environment none of those things matter.
The second part of this question that I would want to address, is the chance of success question we get asked this a lot. The reality is your chance of success is 99% in your own hands. You have to take ownership of your health. You have to take ownership of your fertility and you have to commit to making the changes that are needed to get pregnant and have your baby. Putting it into the hands of doctors or other health care providers who say that they are going to get you pregnant. It’s actually leaving it up to chance and that’s a chance that nobody can predict. But if you are serious about having a baby, leaving it up to chance is not the formula for success. You have to acknowledge that what you’ve been doing hasn’t been working and you have to find help that will get you there.
We had a client who was very much like this woman who asked this question, a very same situation. She was 43. She had low AMH. She had high FSH. She was even turned away by her fertility clinic, because her FSH was so high. She, however felt like she could still get pregnant, but she knew she needed some help to get there. So, she ended up finding us and when we met with her, we were able to see past her age. We didn’t really calculate in her lab work. We can still see that she definitely had great fertility potential and most importantly, we can see that she had the inner drive and the motivation to everything that we asked her to do to get pregnant. We helped her make some changes to her diet. We helped her find ways to manage her stress met her. She religiously took Chinese herbal formulas and she was feeling great. When she finished her program and we felt that, she was ready to go have another evaluation with her fertility clinic and see, if she was ready to start trying to conceive. She opted to skip visiting the fertility clinic all together initially and decided to just try and conceive on her own.
Happily, they successfully conceived very quickly. She went on to have a textbook pregnancy and now, she has her healthy beautiful baby. Now, when I tell the story that sounds like it was really easy for her. But, all along the way while she was trying to conceive and during her pregnancy, she was continuously told that she was too old. That being pregnant at her age was dangerous that she wanted to have an out-of-hospital birth and that was putting her her life and her baby’s life at risk. But, it didn’t matter to her she had worked on her belief system. She had worked on her beliefs about her fertility, about her body, about her pregnancy and she had 100% success. This is not a one-time miracle story for us. We work with women that are in very similar situations to this every day and we see them go on to have healthy babies. Some of them conceive naturally, some of them with the assistance of assisted reproductive technologies, but they have the healthy outcome that they want to have. Now, not everybody will have this outcome, but with enough energy and motivation, many many more of you will succeed like these women. So, throw out those lab numbers. Don’t worry about your age. Focus on improving the health of your eggs, the health of your uterus and your overall health. Stop leaving it to chance.
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