Part two of the FertilityCare piece on Infertilty and alternatives to IVF.
New Hope for Infertility Part 2
November 11, 2009 at 11:38 am (Health, Infertility, See it!)
Tags: Catholic Infertility, Dr. Thomas Hilgers, Family Planning, FertilityCare, Infertility, IVF, IVF Alternatives, NaProTechnology, NFP
New Hope for Infertility
November 8, 2009 at 1:03 pm (Health, Infertility, See it!)
Tags: Catholic Infertility, Dr. Thomas Hilgers, FertilityCare, FertilityCare Centers of America, Infertility, IVF, IVF Alternatives
A great new video from the new web site of FertilityCare Centers of America. News Flash: There are alternatives to IVF!
FertilityCare iPod Episode on Infertility
May 3, 2009 at 7:10 pm (Health, I Heart My Fertility, Infertility, Physicians)
Tags: Dr. Hilgers, Dr. Thomas Hilgers, Endometriosis, fertility, FertilityCare, Health, Infertility, NaPro, NaProTechnology, Women's Wellness
6.2 million women experience some sort of compromised fertility in the United States. Are you one of them? If you are blessed with your full fertility, chances are you know someone who struggles with or has struggled with it.
In this FertilityCare Consult episode, show number fourteen on Infertility, Dr. Thomas Hilgers talks about the major differences between the ordinary approach to treating infertility and the FertilityCare and NaProTechnology way. The ordinary way is to treat the symptoms, and if all else fails, try IVF. The NaProTechnology way is to begin learning about and charting your cycle through the Creighton Method of FertilityCare, then working with your FertilityCare Practitioner and Medical Consultant to identify and diagnose the underlying problem to the compromised fertility. Napro treats the disease, not the symptom, and with much higher success, lower cost and much less suffering.
Do you know the success rate of pregnancies achieved and carried to term with IVF? It’s in the low to mid 20 %. With the Creighton Method of FertilityCare (charting your cycle) and subsequent diagnoses and treatment, do you know what the success rate is? At the lowest, it’s around 35%, and at best 80%, depending on the underlying cause.
If you’ve been having difficulty achieving a pregnancy, or have had recurrent miscarriages, you’ll definitely want to listen to this episode. You may wish to follow up by listening to the episode on Recurrent Miscarriages. So many people have amazing stories of going through the IVF process, only to find disappointment or disillusionment. But there is hope. Please pass this on to any one who might be interested or find healing in new hope for infertility, as well as insight for women’s wellness.
Women Healed: Infertility
February 12, 2009 at 12:23 pm (Birth, Health, I Heart My Fertility, Morality & Ethics, NFP Friends, Reason #323 Not to Use Contraceptives)
Tags: Dr. Thomas Hilgers, Family, Family Planning, fertility, Fertility Awareness, Health, Infertility, IVF, NaProTechnology
I nixed the Teens and Birth Control show on the FertilityCare iPod queue because it was more moral and cultural commentary than about diagnosing young women’s menstrual issues. It was a good show, and a little insightful into the average teen-and-mother/ doctor experience; i.e., what the doctor says when prescribing versus what he really things, and the general lack of knowledge into women’s wellness. What it comes down to is that typical Ob/Gyns are not prepared to identify, diagnose and treat girls’ or womens’ wellness issues without the Pill. There’s a lot of reasons for this–lack of education, contraceptive bias, pharma kickbacks for prescribing the Pill, etc.–but in the end, the Pill serves as a band aid over the underlying issue, which may persist for years and cause problems down the line. However, I was looking for more of the medical/ fertility commentary on that issue.
Which brings me to the next episode I’d like to feature: Women Healed: Infertility. In this episode Dr. Hilgers talks about FertilityCare vs. IVF, and why FertilityCare blows IVF out of the water, not only for helping people conceive, but also for treating their fertility issues. His years of research and medical practice developed into something called NaProTechnology, or Natural Procreative Technology. It’s a major breakthrough for reproductive science, offering real solutions to some real issues:
- Infertility
- Menstrual Cramps
- Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
- Ovarian Cysts
- Irregular or abnormal bleeding
- Polycystic ovarian disease
- Repetitive miscarriage
- Postpartum depression
- Prematurity prevention
- Hormonal abnormalities
…and so on.
It’s really quite astounding once one looks into NaProTechnology, which is a fertility-based women’s care, not fertility-control, or fertility-suppression methods. It works with your whole body because fertility is a state of wellness, not a disease to treat. Dr. Hilgers has put together a book of the same title of this post, which you can find here. Are you ready to find out more about being healed?
