yours sincerely

Kenneth Snell
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Fertility After Forty
by Susun S. Weed

The most fertile years of a woman’s life are those between 18 and 28. Even into the mid-thirties, it is usually fairly easy to conceive and carry a pregnancy to term. During these years the hormones that control ovulation, enhance conception, and ensure a healthy pregnancy are usually made easily and in generous quantities. And detrimental life-style choices have not had decades of repetition to create chronic problems.

But more and more women are waiting until their late thirties, early forties, even late forties, to have children. Is this too late? Are these destined to have high-risk pregnancies? Will these children have more birth defects?

The answer to these questions – and others like them – is “no!” for wise women who enlist the help of green allies to increase fertility, ensure conception, prevent birth defects, and promote a healthy pregnancy and an easy delivery.

INCREASING FERTILITY; ENSURING CONCEPTION

Increase your chances of conception by meditating. Cultivating a calm attitude, not surprisingly, enhances fertility. Even taking a quiet five minutes alone just for you, free of all responsibilities, can bring big results if done frequently enough.

Use lunaception to time your ovulation so you have the best odds of conceiving. It’s fine to have sex in the weeks before ovulation, especially if the sex is focused on the woman and her orgasm, but do save your best efforts for those three nights when your “moon” is full and bright and ready to frolic.

Orgasm on the part of the male is necessary for fertilization. The woman’s orgasm does increase the possibility of conception. Women who experience orgasm after their partner (up to 40 minutes after his ejaculation) have the very best chance of becoming pregnant.

Red clover is the single best remedy for women over forty who want to conceive but can’t – even if there are medical reasons for not conceiving such as blocked tubes, diabetes, ovarian cysts, internal scarring, or endometriosis. There are many heart-warming success stories I could share about red clover! But suffice to say, drinking 2-4 cups of the infusion of the dried blossoms (neither tincture nor tea nor pills will work for this application) seems to do wonders for fertility, no matter what your age.

PREVENTING BIRTH DEFECTS

Boosting your nutritional status makes birth defects less of a worry. Women who drink 2-4 cups of stinging nettle infusion daily and eat cooked leafy greens as well as lettuce salads are getting the abundant folic acid, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals needed to create a healthy baby. (Tinctures, pills, and teas contain little or none of these important nutrients.)

Vitamin E is an especially critical nutrient for fertility after forty and freedom from birth defects. Freshly-ground wheat flour, cold-pressed oils, and nut butters are all good sources of vitamin E, as are stinging nettle infusion and most cooked seaweed, such as kelp. The man’s vitamin E level has as much, if not more, bearing on freedom from birth defects as does the woman’s vitamin E level.

Avoid heat, both of you. Hot tubs, even prolonged soaking in a hot bath, can cause temporary (up to several months) sterility in some men. In women, it can endanger the early embryo and trigger a miscarriage or birth defects.

Avoid drugs, both of you, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, as well as over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs (except those you absolutely need). Your liver needs to be strong and so do your kidneys, so you can conceive and gestate a child. Instead of alcohol, which damages the liver, drink herbal infusions or alcohol-free wine or beer. Instead of tobacco, which may contribute to birth defects and low birth weight, try smoking a little dried peppermint, or, better yet, go for a walk. Instead of coffee, which challenges the kidneys, you may wish to drink green tea or black tea, or try coffee substitutes, especially the one made with dandelion roots. Instead of drugs to ease everyday aches and pains, use the gentle herbal remedies instead.

EMOTIONAL ISSUES

Ambivalence about pregnancy and parenthood is normal and natural. But the older a woman gets, the more complicated her emotions about it may be. Add to her emotional soup pot strong opinions from family and friends, confusing information spread by the popular media, and fear-inducing pronouncements from “helpful” medical professionals, and that pot will be in danger of boiling over. Herewith then, some wise woman hints for keeping your cool in the midst of overt and covert confusion.

Contrary to current opinion, having children in your forties is ordinary and common worldwide. The Bible mentions several women having children in their fifties. What is unusual and unique to our time is having a first child in one’s forties. Our mother’s, mother’s, mothers were having their fifth or eighth or tenth child when they were in their forties, not their first. If people tell you it just isn’t done, close your eyes and call upon the spirit of your great-great-great-great grandmother, then smile and tell them it seems utterly ordinary to you.

Feeling tense and distressed about choosing or refusing motherhood? Motherwort tincture is my favorite calmative. A dose of 10-20 drops helps clear your mind, eases your tension, and assists you in discerning the best path to follow.

Bach flower remedies excel as helpers when you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed. Try:

• Aspen when you feel anxious, apprehensive, or afraid of the unknown.
• Mimulus when you are dwelling on a specific fear.
• Elm when you feel overwhelmed or inadequate.
• Red Chestnut when you are afraid for or worried about your baby to be.
• Rock Rose when you are trembling, shaking, or weeping from anxiety or fear.

Regular gentle massage or Reiki treatments not only help you calm your distress, they also guide you in creating a strong center that’s resistant to being pushed around by other people’s opinions. Massage and/or Reiki also help prepare your mind/body for a healthy pregnancy and a safe birth.

SPECIAL ALLIES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OVER FORTY The single most important herb for pregnant women over forty is comfrey (Symphytum uplandica hybrids). The leaves of the mature plant contain an abundance of constituents beneficial to mother and babe, including generous amounts of minerals, alantoin, proteins, and many vitamins. The minerals in comfrey help ensure healthy nervous system growth; the fetus’s developing brain uses the proteins. And the alantoin helps the mother’s tissues become stretchy and elastic.

Aging can lead to increased stiffness and brittleness in bones and muscles, making pregnancy more arduous and painful, labor slower and more difficult, and injury more likely during birth. The hormones of pregnancy, which help soften and relax the pelvic tissues, may not be produced in adequate amounts. Comfrey comes to the rescue! Comfrey creates flexible and strong tissues throughout the body especially mucus surfaces (including intestines, uterus, bladder and vagina), the bones, the ligaments and tendons, and the skin.

Regular use of the leaf infusion, at least a quart a week, promotes a safe delivery by:

• strengthening uterine muscles and preparing them to work easily and well
• strengthening perineal tissues so they become resistant to tearing
• strengthening uterine ligaments so the uterus does not prolapse
• strengthening the bladder and increasing resistance to bacterial infection
• strengthening the vagina and helping to promote an environment hostile to infection
• providing easily assimilated minerals to prevent eclampsia and other complications
• helping the bones of the pelvis flex and open during birth
• increasing iron in the blood and thus forestalling post-partum hemorrhage.

I harvest the flowering stalks when they are fully formed; and I am careful to use the cultivated garden comfrey, which grows very tall and has purplish, pinkish, bluish flowers. I avoid wild comfrey, which stays rather small even when flowering, and has cream-colored, white, or yellowish flowers.

Some people feel that comfrey is not safe to use during pregnancy. Some people feel comfrey is not safe to use internally at all. I disagree. The roots of comfrey do contain compounds that are best avoided during pregnancy (as do all parts of the wild plant). In fact, I rarely use comfrey root because of the possibility of liver congestion, and I strongly caution those who have had hepatitis, chemotherapy, or alcohol problems to strictly avoid comfrey root. Yet even these people can benefit from use of comfrey leaf infusions.

Another important herbal ally for women over forty who desire a child is chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castii). It has been used in Africa and parts of Europe for several thousand years to discourage the male libido. In women, the effects seem to be the opposite! It may also be a fertility enhancer. Most importantly, chaste tree is a strengthening tonic for the pituitary gland, the master control gland for the endocrine system. Daily use of the tincture of the berries (1 dropperful/1 ml 2-3 times daily) had been shown to increase progesterone – the hormone of pregnancy – and luteinizing hormone – which promotes conception. Because it can lower prolactin levels, chaste tree is best discontinued during the last trimester of pregnancy.

Dong quai (Angelica sinensis) is not recommended for women over forty. In general, this herb promotes blood flow to the uterus and surrounding tissues. This can promote the growth of fibroids and increase the risk of post-partum hemorrhage. Ginger is a better warming tonic; motherwort is better at relieving pain; and raspberry is better at preparing the uterus for birth.

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I saw the interview of a Ryan Higgins and Frank Kern – you can check it out here – that could change the way you manifest anything you want into your life. I then set about making my own personal mind movie – rather fiddly as I didn’t have their great software – but I ended up with something I was very happy with – my own mind movie showing my life the way I would like it to be!

The the REALLY INCREDIBLE happened!!!!

In LESS THAN one week:

- I lost half a stone in weight; no diet, no additional exercise!

- I gained £125 (almost $250) from nowhere!!! One cheque through the post and the other deposited in my bank account, totally unexpected (and unearned!!!)

- I could stop my German Shepherd from barking incessantly at every thing that moved!!!

It may not sound much, but all of this was in my mind movie and it happened IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK!!! I’m stunned! I’m bowled over! I’m elated, excited – I want to watch my mind movies all day every day!!!!!!

Anyway, I had also made the How to get pregnant – Mind Movie that is on this blog. Now there is something really important I need to say about this – YOU WILL NOT GET PREGNANT BY JUST WATCHING THIS MOVIE TWICE A DAY! The way mind movies work is that they focus your mind (an incredibly powerful machine that does a lot more work subconsciously than it ever does consciously) on what you want. That means that your subconscious then becomes employed at looking out for everything that can help you to achieve what you are focussed on and things, therefore, just appear to be there when you need them. It does not mean you would no longer need IVF or some assisted method, but it will focus your mind in a positive way on making these successful.

Seriously though, I’m amazed at the results that I have had, so quickly. They may be the small things in life, but give it time and what could happen to those big dreams!! You see, Ryan figured out this powerful way to tap into the Law of Attraction that practically guarantees you’ll get whatever you want.

And the surprising thing about it is it is SUPER easy to do, you can start doing it right now…and if your looking for health, wealth, spirituality or love then Ryan is giving pre-made mind movies on these subjects absolutely FREE – these were the basis I used for my own mind movie – pick them up here.

So if you’re really serious about increasing your power to manifest anything you want into your life super fast, you need to check this out right now – we all deserve to get what we want in life!

I’m extremely excited about this, because it could literally transform your life. So be sure you share your story with me when you start doing this, OK?

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I read an article in Heraldsun recently that said “Infertile women’s brains – and not just their bodies – may be blocking them from conceiving a baby.” In my career I do a lot of work on leadership development and overcoming limiting beliefs so this really rang a chord with me.

Not long after reading the article I came across Ryan Higgins – who’s that I hear you say – well, Ryan creates what he calls mind movies, and they’re brilliant! You can check them out at here.

So what has this got to do with how to get pregnant? Especially if you are looking for an IVF pregnancy or want to increase your chances of IVF success? Well, I’ll explain. If even part of the issue of becoming pregnant is down to the mind then any help to put us in the right mindset will be useful. What mind movies do is use the power of a technique called neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to help us to attract the things that we want into our lives – the principle works, I’ve experienced it! Ryan calls it the Law of Attraction.

Firstly I’ll explain what NLP is; then I’ll describe to you how the movies use this technique; and finally I’ll tell you what you need to do with the movie that I have produced for you, and of course, what it could do for you.

How to Get Pregnant with NLP

As I’ve already said, NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming. The neuro part is about your neurological system. Thought processes will activate the neurological system and this affects physiology, emotions and behaviour. The linguistics is about the language that we use and the way this influences our experiences. Finally the programming is the internal processes and thinking patterns that we use to make decisions, solve problems, learn, evaluate and get results.

Let’s take a look at some of the better-known names that use NLP techniques. There is the guru, Tony Robbins, famous for the fire walks. If, however, you are not into self-help gurus, but you like a bit of TV, then names like Derren Brown and Paul McKenna may be more familiar to you. Much of the work that these people do is based on the principles of NLP and I think we can all agree that they produce some spectacular results!.

The basic principle of NLP is to know what you want; visualise it in all it’s detail; make all of your language fit your visualisation; then repeat until it is programmed into your internal system.

How to Get Pregnant – Mind Movie

What Ryan’s Mind Movies do is help considerably with this process. The visualisation is external, in front of your eyes in a movie – easier to capture than having to focus your mind internally. The movies include affirmations – that is, positive statements, written in the present tense (as if you already have them) that communicate a belief to your mind – these help to change our internal programming. On top of all that there is music that brings out emotion and positive energy.

As I have said, Ryan describes this as the Law of Attraction – if you repeatedly tell yourself what you want in the right way, then all the resources that you need to achieve that thing will come to you. Previously I had tended to call it the Power of Positive Thinking. It does work! I know. I remember when I broke my ankle last year – so badly I needed a metal plate and screws put in to hold it together. Everybody I spoke to who had gone through a similar thing had been left with a limp. I swore I would walk properly again! I focussed my mind on not limping and when I went back to the hospital two months after having my plaster off both the surgeon and the radiologist were stunned! It was the power of my mind. My focus was never on “I do not want to limp” my focus was always on “I will walk properly” – an important distinction, the brain does not process negatives very well. In the first sentence the primary word is “limp”; just like when you say “do not forget” the primary focus is “foget”, whereas if you say “I must remember” the primary focus is “remember” – try changing your language slightly and see the affect it has!

Anyway, enough of the theory, let’s get down to what we are really interested in – how to get pregnant. Whether you are looking to get pregnant naturally or through IVF it is important that we deal with the mind. If you have ever heard yourself saying “I’m never going to have a baby and I want one so badly” then you need to keep reading – you’ve already conditioned your mind into the negative.

I have taken Ryan’s Mind Movie techniques and I have created a Mind Movie for getting pregnant and having a healthy baby.The movie is designed to programme you into creating the right environment and behaviour to become pregnant, have a healthy pregnancy, deliver your beautiful, healthy baby naturally and love them to bits (I doubt that you need any help with the last bit!)

IMPORTANT: What you need to do to help you get pregnant

1. Watch How to get Pregnant – Mind Movie twice a day, preferably first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Keep watching it; it will only take seven and a half minutes of your whole day to watch it twice. With the Mind Movies some people have had results in a matter of weeks, others have taken a few months; just keep watching, your whole body is being reprogrammed as you watch. It does not matter if you are trying to conceive naturally, through IVF or through some other assisted method, the movie should still benefit you.
2. If you feel that this movie does not suit you and would like one made for your personal situation please contact me through the contact page and I will do my best to create one for you.
3. When you get a result, or just feel better about everything, please leave me a comment here; I would absolutely love to hear from you.

So what are you waiting for – press the play button NOW!

(Please make sure your speakers are switched on).

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It has taken me a while to write this post – I can be a bit shy talking about such personal issues – but I thought I should put up an introductory post here to tell you who I am and why I have developed this blog.

I imagine that if you are visiting my IVFcost.net blog you, like me, are looking to get pregnant and have been recommended IVF.

My husband and I spent about eight years hoping that the natural thing would happen, the natural way. It didn’t! Eventually, when I was 39, we started taking all the tests. After a gruelling year or more we were told that the reason I had never become pregnant was “unexplained” and, due to my age, we should go for IVF – an IVF pregnancy is our only hope!

The problem then was that I had turned 40 and was no longer eligible for treatment on the NHS (we are based in the UK where you can get one or more cycles paid for by the NHS if you are 39 or under). So we were faced with having to pay for the treatment ourselves.

This posed additional problems for us as we were only just getting on our feet having lost absolutely everything when we returned to the UK after living in Zimbabwe. Then, just as we thought we may be in a position to get started, my mother was taken seriously ill and we have had an added financial burden of caring for her needs.

So, we have a desire, but we have no money!!! I’m sure we are not alone in this! It has meant that the IVF cost is crucial to us. In addition, as I write this I am now 43! This means that the IVF success rate is diminishing for me – rapidly!! We need IVF treatment that is effective and cheap!

Not being one to give up easily I decided that I should start researching and, to help me to focus my results whilst also helping others in a similar position to us, I started this blog.

I hope that you find the information here useful. It is a collection of things that have struck a chord with me, together with the IVF cost research that I have done. There are a few excellent things that I have come across – in particular the How to get Pregnant – Mind Movie, please take a look at it!

I wish you every luck with achieving your dream of a beautiful, healthy baby – perhaps we’ll meet in the delivery room!

Mrs. Croc. xxx 

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