Natural conception and fertility

Preconception care and fertility
Preconception care is one of the most loving and responsible choices you and your partner can make together, not only for you and your child's health, but also for future generations.

You may visit elementa when preparing to have children for a number of reasons...

• to prepare your bodies for a successful, healthy pregnancy, as well as a problem-free birth and satisfying breast-feeding experience.
• You may want to enhance your chance of maximising your future child's potential - physically, mentally and emotionally.
• You may have tried unsuccessfully to conceive.

Addressing preconception and pregnancy health is the ultimate in preventative medicine. What you do for a few months will have lifelong effects for you and your child.

Promoting fertility
With approximately one couple in six having difficulty conceiving, modern issues affecting fertility need to be addressed. Your practitioner will discuss these with you in order to achieve your best outcome and course of treatment. Factors that may affect fertility include: 

• Stress
• Toxicity, radiation and pollution
• Immune system status
• Drugs, including caffeine, tobacco and alcohol
• Previous conception history
• Genito-urinary infections e.g Chlamydia and Mycoplasma
• Reproductive conditions such as polycystic ovarian disease and endometriosis.
• Poor diet and nutrition
• Age

Elementa's natural pre conception and fertility programme;
Our natural preconception and fertility programme, run by fully qualified naturopaths and herbalists uses holistic natural medicine, nutrition, detoxification, stress control and timing techniques, and depending on the needs of each couple may include;

1. Looking at lifestyle and environmental toxins:

• Improving lifestyle
• Detoxification
• Identifying and coping with stress
• Identifying and managing emotional needs
• Fitness assessment and programmes

2. Diet and nutrition needs: dietary advice and nutrient supplementation essential for fertility

3. Hair analysis or kinesiology: shows any deficiencies or excesses of essential minerals and or toxic metal overload. Also to check for intolerance and allergies and to minimise these. We may also test for body toxicity using our bio-impedence analysis diagnostic tool.

4. Checking for genitor-urinary infections.

5. Optimum time for conception: 

• charting of temperature and mucus
• timing techniques for achieving conception

6. Natural health supplements and herb prescriptions: for reproductive health and general health issues for both prospective parents such as fibroids, endometriosis, PCOD, cysts, weight issues and so forth.

Programme Investment:
Four-month programme $470
Including consultations in weeks one(1 hr), three(1/2 hr), four (1 hr) nine(1/2 hr) and fourteen(1 hr), hair analysis or kinesiology allergy and toxin testing, a detoxification programme and written material. Price includes 10% discount of full price. Supplements, herbs and any other tests are priced separately

Note: you may wish to opt to see a fertility consultant for just one consultation. We are pleased for you to do this, however we are more able to help you succeed in reaching your goals if you enroll in our four month programme.

When should I start?
Preconception care should ideally begin at least four months prior to the conception attempts. This preparation time is very important as the eggs take three months to mature and sperm takes almost four months to generate. This means that sperm being expelled now has been exposed to all the toxins the male has been exposed to for the past four months. Fertilisation with sperm and/or eggs that have had toxic exposure increases the possibility of pregnancy loss and decreases the chance of a healthy baby. Think of it as being in training.- how are you going to win a triathlon if you don't train?

What other services may assist us?
Ask about our meditation and stress management programmes ( group and individual), yoga classes and our group preconception care programmes.