Anna nearly doubled her AMH in 3 months resulting in her successfully freezing three day 5 blastocyst embryos. She went from heartbroken to overjoyed at what her future may now hold!
How did she do this? Well let's go back to the start.
Anna came to us feeling lost, overwhelmed and quite heartbroken. She had a low ovarian reserve and an AMH of 4.0. In her late thirties she was becoming increasingly worried about having children in the future, so she decided she needed to do something now - and quickly - before she lost her chance.
Anna decided she was going to freeze her eggs. However, having spoken with the fertility clinic, she quickly learnt that egg freezing alone may not be enough to secure her chances of a baby in the future. Freezing an embryo (when an egg is fertilised with a sperm) can have a higher chance of surviving the thawing process than an egg alone.
Because of this, Anna decided to use a donor sperm. This meant when she came to us, we only had to focus on Anna - her health, her fertility and her eggs. This is still a significant challenge as the success rate of egg to embryo to successfully freezing are low - only about 30-50% of eggs collected will make it to the blastocyst stage (day 3-5 of fertilisation) required to freeze the embryo.
Anna desperately wanted to improve her fertility but since she was paying privately to freeze her eggs, it wasn't financially viable for her to work with us one on one. Having had a free 20 minute consultation with her, we agreed that the best start was for her to do our online fertility course - Improve Your Fertility Naturally. This course provides all the information we give in our private consultations but at a self-taught pace and at a fraction of the investment. Anna was incredibly self-motivated, but was worried about costs and further emotional investment without results, so the course felt like the right place to start.
"Doing this Fertility Course has been a transformative experience. It was professional, full of useful knowledge and the guidance was clear and actionable."
Not only did her AMH increase but her skin cleared up, she lost weight, she completely transformed the way she thought about food, she has drastically improved her diet and has decided to stick to this cleaner way of eating and living as she feels so much better than before.
"Amazingly, I started to see significant results in my whole body within just three months of beginning the course and having some extra consultations with Kelly. My AMH levels nearly doubled, going from 4.0 to 7.9, which was an incredible improvement in such a short period."
In addition to the Improve Your Fertility Naturally course, Anna booked an extra one off consultation with us to curate a totally tailored supplement regime to optimise all of her levels based on all of her fertility blood tests and ultrasounds.
Anna consistently took a range of supplements for 5 months in the lead up to the egg collection.
Her supplement protocol was designed to do two things:
Improve her overall health; ensuring Anna wasn't deficient herself in essential vitamins and minerals meant her body would be able to function at its best.
Improve her reproductive health, specifically ovarian and egg quality; this included a good quality prenatal multi and a whole host of nutrients in high doses to support DNA quality of the developing eggs, ranging from omega's to ubiquinol, NAD and Vitamin E to name a few.
And on the day of her egg collection, well, here is Anna's story in her own words....
"On the day of egg collection, 3 eggs were successfully collected. All 3 eggs fertilised, developed into embryos, and 3 reached the blastocyst stage and were successfully frozen.
I am incredibly grateful to Kelly and Gail for their guidance and support. They turned my bleak fertility outlook into a story of hope and success. Their expertise, personalised care, and dedication have made all the difference, and I highly recommend their services to anyone facing fertility challenges...Their compassionate approach made me feel understood and hopeful.
Doing this Fertility Course has been a transformative experience. It was professional, full of useful knowledge and the guidance was clear and actionable."
The fertility doctors were astounded at her results. Not only were they expecting she may need two to three rounds of egg collections to get a supply, they could not believe the high quality eggs that were retrieved AND that 100% of them survived to blastocyst stage.
"The doctor told me he was surprised I got any eggs at all. He was genuinely astounded when all of them survived to blastocyst stage and he commended me for my hard work in changing my diet and lifestyle, which clearly had a huge positive impact on my fertility cycle."
Anna successfully froze three day 5 blastocyst embryos. Whilst she is hoping to find a partner to have a baby with together, she has certainly secured herself a back up plan should she decide to have a baby on her own in the future.
Kelly, founder of The Natural Balance, says: "We are seeing more and more women come to us to secure their fertility options for a time in the future that is right for them. This ranges from egg freezing to embryo freezing with a partner, as well as women going on to have successfully IVF pregnancies on their own with a donor sperm. It is certainly a rollercoaster of emotions but we are hear to support women (and their partners) through these challenging times, all with the aim of starting a family in the future."
Read more about Kelly's own challenging but successful fertility journey of her own here.
If you too are feeling anxious and overwhelmed about your fertility, please get in touch - we would love to help alleviate some of the pressure of making a baby.
Kelly Mulhall
Registered Nutritional Therapist, Health Coach, Master SIBO Practitioner
Kelly is a Registered Nutritional Therapist who focuses on positive physical and mental wellbeing, achieved through diet, lifestyle, sleep and exercise. Having struggled for years with IBS and hormonal imbalance, and increasingly frustrated with the lack of support and helpful advice from her GP, Kelly began her own journey of healing the body from the inside out. After seeing huge improvements she quit her job to study nutrition and focus on harnessing the healing powers of food to help other people in similar situations.
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