A Few Weeks Before IUI / IVF

1 acupuncture treatment every week plus herbs or as many treatments as necessary to reach 8 consecutive treatments before embryo transfer or IUI

Research shows that doing this acupuncture treatment plan before your IVF increases the live birth rate by almost 1/5* One of the ways that it does this is that the blood flow to the uterus increases dramatically after the eigth acupuncture treatment and stays that way for at least 10- 14 days after the last acupuncture treatment.** Therefore if a woman has not already had 8 acupuncture treatments in the month or so leading up to the embryo transfer or IUI then we will try to schedule the treatments to make that happen to maximize the chance of a successful implantation and embryo growth and ultimate birth of a health baby

 

* Communication to American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual general meating 2005, due for publication in Fertility and Sterility Fall 2009 by Paul Magarelli et al.

** Reduction of blood flow impedance in the uterine arteries of infertile women with electro-acupuncture

Elisabet Stener-Victorin[1.4], Urban Waldenström[2], Sven A. Andersson[3] and Matts Wikland[2]
[1]Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology [2]Fertility Centre
Scandinavia. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and [3]Department of Physiology University of Gothenburg.
S-413 45 Gothenburg, Sweden

[4]To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Kvinnokliniken Sahlgrensh sjukhuset, S-413 45 Golhenburg, Sweden

Source: European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology