Getting pregnant after 40

Women have a limited reproductive life span. Your reproductive years are marked by two events: your first and last menstrual period. Unfortunately, sometimes it ends well before you are ready to say goodbye to your ability conceive. This makes you wonder if getting pregnant after 40 is still possible.

Advancing age is one of the infertility causes in women, mainly because the number of eggs becomes fewer and egg quality becomes poorer with age. Processes that involved in egg formation and development are also more prone to breakdown as a woman ages.

Even if you are willing to resort to assisted reproductive technology procedures to help you get pregnant, most likely the doctor will turn you away because, in addition to the egg quality issue, it is highly possible that your reproductive and hormonal systems are not going to response to the treatment favorably. There will be fewer fertilized eggs, even fewer will be able to implant properly and make it through full embryonic development.

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But does this mean getting pregnant after 40 is impossible? Well, according to the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) system, a woman is still able to get pregnant after 40, IF her body is able to return to more youthful levels of hormonal balance and blood flow, so that her ovaries are able to produce and release healthy eggs as when she was younger.

Therefore, if you want to get pregnant after 40, you need to provide more nourishment and blood flow to your reproductive system. While the Western medicine attempts to do this with hormonal treatment that overstimulates the ovaries, the TCM takes a natural approach to encourage ample hormone production and proper follicular response in your body.

Based on the TCM healing system, there are two specific areas that cause the aging of a woman’s reproductive system: deficiencies in the kidney and the spleen. It is said that by treating deficiencies of these two systems with acupuncture, herbs, diet and lifestyle, you are likely to turn back the clock and re-establish high levels of fertility to increase your chances of getting pregnant at 40. You can talk to a qualified TCM practitioner on how to treat kidney and spleen deficiencies.

Meanwhile, there are a few things you can do to improve your body’s efficiency and health in order to improve your chances of getting pregnant after 40.

Avoid junk food, caffeine, tobacco, and refined carbohydrates.
If possible avoid dairy products, raw vegetables and cold foods.
Eat a organic, whole-food diet.
You may want to supplement your diet with wheatgrass, royal jelly, blue-green algae, and L-arginine (an amino acid) supplements.
Apply energy balancing massages and acupressure to the endocrine and reproductive organ points.

If getting pregnant after 40 is what you really want, then start taking care of your body, so that it can once again produce healthy eggs and provide optimal conditions for a pregnancy to take place.