Acupuncture for Fertility

• Ideally, treatment should begin 3 months before your first cycle, including egg collection, to optimise your overall health.

• Between egg collection and transfer, acupuncture helps build your reserves and can play a role towards supporting your womb lining, and side effects experienced from egg collection.

• Specific acupuncture protocols are used both pre- and post-transfer, within a 24-hour period, to support implantation.

• During the two-week wait before your pregnancy test, acupuncture can gently regulate your nervous system to ease anxiety.

• After a positive test, acupuncture can be safely used throughout pregnancy to maintain well-being, manage symptoms, and prepare you for delivery.

You don’t have to be on the IVF pathway to benefit from acupuncture for fertility. Regular weekly treatments for 3 months can support natural conception.
 

• Your first treatment includes a thorough history, which informs a personalised treatment plan, with advice to enhance your diet and lifestyle—key factors in optimising fertility.

• Whether or not you have an underlying condition affecting your fertility, acupuncture can support hormonal regulation and your nervous system, key factors to consider with natural conception.

It’s often assumed that prolonged attempts to conceive are due to female factors, but around 30% of infertility cases are due to male factors.
 

• There is evidence (although currently limited) to show that acupuncture can potentially improve sperm motility and morphology, and therefore sperm health. Sperm health is crucial to a viable pregnancy- this may seem obvious, but it cannot be overstated!