It’s a Happy Friday here. We have an addition to our Fertility Focus team, Jacqui Dunn. Jacqui is expecting her first baby after going through IUI and will be sharing her journey.
Welcome, Jacqui! — Shelly
Hello everyone! I am excited to start sharing my fertility experience with you all.
One of the things I started considering last year after trying for months to get pregnant was to start taking some yoga classes. As it is, I am a very high-strung person and the stress of fertility doctors, testing, and medication was making things worse. My husband suggested looking into some local “yogis” and even agreed to start coming with me!
I walked in with a somewhat open mind, hoping that something would help me relax and to just go with the flow of this entire process. I thought that maybe I could also ease some normal everyday tension along with it.
There were articles I came across about this very topic about how practicing yoga can help get your mind off things – which in turn makes it easier to relax and allows for your body to operate more efficiently. I still continued with my fertility treatments – and after over two months of yoga classes along with treatment, I was successful on my first IUI attempt!
I truly believe that my weekly yoga appointments helped me refocus my energy and breathing and let myself just “be in the moment” instead of over-analyzing my situation. Obviously, going to a fertility doctor and having treatments were a big part of this process as well, but that is just the clinical side. The yoga really helped me with the mental and emotional side of what I was going through, which I believe people need to nurture when going through during difficult times.
Yoga is definitely something to think about if you are having fertility issues. Pulling Down the Moon is an informative site that can explain more of the advantages of yoga for fertility. Check it out!
I am planning to continue my yoga classes for as long as I can throughout the pregnancy and will definitely want to pick it back up afterwards so I can try to remain as relaxed as possible with a newborn!
Namaste,
Jacqui
