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[quote=Anonymous]From that article:

[quote]As good as it sounds, acupuncture is clearly not the panacea for all fertility problems. As Dillard tells WebMD, in instances where a structural defect exists -- such as a blocked fallopian tube or a fibroid tumor -- acupuncture won't help you get pregnant.

Likewise, once past a certain age, no amount of tickling your Qi is going to increase necessary hormones that have long gone out of production.
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I'm not the PP who called this "unproven mumbo jumbo" -- that is too harsh. I've seen you post before on your success with chinese medicine, nutrition and acupuncture. You should be thrilled with your success and I'm wishing you all the best with your upcoming birth, but I think that we have to be careful not to confuse correlation with causation, here. Was your success due to the fact that you changed your diet? The acupuncture? The herbs? The new clinic you said you tried, with presumably a better lab and a good protocol? A better mindset? Or just the fact that your lucky egg came up during the last cycle?

I am 40 and I did none of what you did. And I am also pregnant. (Conceived at 40 years, 4 months.) However, I would not tell people NOT to do acupuncture or NOT to change their diet because that's what "worked" for me. I have no idea what "worked" for me. I personally believe that there is far more to luck in this enterprise than we may want to believe...but changing diet/doing acupuncture/taking herbs etc may give us a way to feel as if we are exercising control.

Again, I think it is wonderful that you are having a baby, I'm completely serious about that. But what worked for you may not work for everyone, and taking a year "off" when one is already facing age-related infertility may not be the right answer for everyone, etiher. [/quote]

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