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Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that I am not a medical doctor. I have been a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 17 years and I will be speaking from my clinical experience helping thousands of women conceive. The office of Aimee E. Raupp, M.S., L.Ac and Aimee Raupp Wellness & Fertility Centers and all personnel associated with the practice do not use social media to convey medical advice. This video will be posted to Aimee’s channels to educate and inspire others on the fertility journey.

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Aimee Raupp:

Hello everyone. How are you? It's me, and we are here for a Fertility Hot Seat. So I'm going to let you all start rolling on, and I am super excited. So my Fertility Hot Seat happens once a month. Hello, Kristen. Hello, everyone joining. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Fertility Hot Seat. If you want my free fertility advice based on my 20 years of clinical experience, my bestselling books, and my helping thousands of women over these 20 years of working as a fertility detective, you have to request to join me live. And so what happens is I'm going to let a few of you come on and request, and then at random, I'm going to go in and select one of you and pick you to come on live with me right now. I'm going to give you a free 15-minute consult based on your case, and you can ask me all sorts of questions, like “This supplement, that supplement. This amount of medication, that amount of medication. Do you think there's a chance?”

You know, anything you want, and it's all, not medical advice. It's all advice based on my clinical experience. So here, people are rolling on now, and I love it. I love it, I love it, I love it. So I can't wait to pick someone. Then, we're going to do a Fertility Hot Seat with you, and then the person that does get chosen to come on, so grateful for them because they come on and bravely share their case, and you all get to learn from that while I kind of unpack it with them. You'll see kind of too, how I get really into the nuts and bolts of like, “Tell me about this. Tell me about that.” We have a lot of requests, so let's do it. [inaudible 00:02:04] your comments so often. Let's see. You have to be on your phone to join and let's see. I just chose someone, but if it takes a while, let's see. Here we go. You're on.

Speaker 2:

Hi.

Aimee Raupp:

It's nice to see you and meet you. I feel like I see you comment on things, and I may have looked at your page before too. I'm trying to remember.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Thank you. I actually knew you were going to pick me today. I'm at work, so I'm just going to let my coworker know that I'm not going to be coming back off from my break.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Sonya, I'm just going to be a couple of minutes longer on my break. Okay. Sorry about that.

Aimee Raupp:

Hi.

Speaker 2:

Okay. I'm going to go outside.

Aimee Raupp:

So you knew. You manifested this?

Speaker 2:

I did. I absolutely knew that it was happening today.

Aimee Raupp:

Good.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so-

Aimee Raupp:

Hi. Tell me what's going on.

Speaker 2:

So I am 38 years old.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

No. Sorry. I'm 38 when I started the journey. I'm just going to be turning 40 now.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Sorry. I'm a little bit nervous.

Aimee Raupp:

It's okay. Take a deep breath. I'm right here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, thank you.

Aimee Raupp:

I gotcha. We're just having a chat, and I'll just give you some of my feelers. That's it.

Speaker 2:

Okay. Thank you.

Aimee Raupp:

You're welcome.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, Aimee. So I have one daughter. I had her at 30. We got pregnant accidentally, and then fast-forward to November 2021, I guess, when I was 38, we decided that we wanted to try again. So I started taking supplements and taking better care of my body. Then, I got pregnant very easily. The first time we tried, I got pregnant, and it ended up being a blighted ovum at nine weeks.

Aimee Raupp:

Right. This was your question the other day, right?

Speaker 2:

It was, yeah.

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So I let it happen naturally. I actually had a decidual cast, which I also asked you about that question before.

Aimee Raupp:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

And I don't know if that was related to taking herbs, because I did take some Chinese herbs to help it cast of my body, so maybe that contributed, I don't know, and then I gave myself-

Aimee Raupp:

Because you passed the cast, right?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Fully intact. It was very traumatic. I did not expect it. So that happened, and then I got pregnant again, November. Again, first time trying, or weren't even really trying, and same thing happened, nine weeks. Blighted ovum, decidual cast. I knew it was kind of happening with both of them. I could feel my symptoms start to dissipate, so I went in and asked for the HCG and went along that rollercoaster, so that happened. And since then, actually today, this is why I knew I had a feeling that you were going to pick me. Today's 100 days I've been on the diet 100 days.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay. Good for you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Yeah.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay, okay.

Speaker 2:

And I'm not going back to the way I was eating before, so anybody watching who's thinking about doing it, I highly recommend. It is hard; however, once it becomes automatic, it just becomes automatic, and now it's a part of my life and I will never go back to the way I was eating before, and I eat healthy. I've been to school for holistic nutrition. I thought I ate a healthy diet, but not a healthy diet for me and my body.

Aimee Raupp:

Right, right. So what'd you learn? What'd you learn about your body?

Speaker 2:

I actually haven't really introduced. Anything that I've tried to reintroduce, hasn't felt good, so I've mostly just stuck in phase four. I've introduced egg whites and almond butter, and aside from that and a little bit of wine, but otherwise I'm 100% on it still.

Aimee Raupp:

Wow, and did you have a lot of red flag symptoms that have improved?

Speaker 2:

Oh. Yeah, yeah. Incredibly. I probably ticked off 30 of them when I first started, and now I'm down to just a couple. It's such an improvement in my experience, in my body, and in my life.

Aimee Raupp:

Wow. That's amazing, and then what's your cycle been doing, and have you been trying these 100 days?

Speaker 2:

No, because I get pregnant so easily, I've been afraid to try. My cycle has been incredible. I've always been regular, and so that is still the same, but my ovulation used to be on day like 17, 18. Now it's gone down to day 14. I have so much CM, like it's off the hook. It's incredible. I forgot that much was possible, and no cramping. No clots. It's honestly, just my period, when it shows up, is just a cute little gift. I actually feel good about it, and I feel almost happy to have it. It's such a change.

Aimee Raupp:

Aw. And so in your head, go through supplements with me. What are you taking? And then we'll go-

Speaker 2:

Okay. I'm on two different good quality prenatals, but I take them alternating days. I tend to do that with things, just in case they may not work. I tend to keep it variety. I'm on fish oil and cod liver oil.

Aimee Raupp:

How many milligrams?

Speaker 2:

I'm doing, I wish I knew this off the top of my head. I'd doing, of the cod liver oil, a full-

Aimee Raupp:

Syringe?

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Plus, on the same day, so every day I'm also doing four giant pills of the high DHA oil. I'm not sure exactly.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay, so you're probably getting like 3000 milligrams a day, I would guess.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

And then I'm on the wobenzym. I'm doing three of those a day. I'm doing spirulina, just a couple. Not a full dose, but just at least four of those tablets a day. I'm doing iron, just because I had low iron after the last miscarriage.

Aimee Raupp:

And what kind of iron? Do you know the brand?

Speaker 2:

I'm not sure. Oh. Genestra, I think it is? I'm in Canada, so I don't know if things are different.

Aimee Raupp:

Is it bisglycinate iron?

Speaker 2:

No, I'm not sure.

Aimee Raupp:

Genestra, right? That's the brand?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Yeah. Let me look.

Aimee Raupp:

Genestra iron, vegetarian supplement. That one? Let's just see. As carbonyl iron. It's not constipating you though, 40 milligrams?

Speaker 2:

No, not at all.

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah. I mean, I don't know if carbonyl iron, sorry. I don't want to waste time, but let me just see. Is carbonyl iron the same as glycinate? Oh, no. They are different. I just want to see. Different sources of iron, okay. But you're not constipated. So the one thing is that certain irons can be really pro-inflammatory. It can trigger a kind of an inflammatory response, and this is something new that I've kind of learned recently. Well, it's been a while, but carbonyl iron is significantly less toxin than other options.

I think you're fine, but maybe there's this brand I like, Simply Heme, or I really prefer too of just doing the organ meats, like the liver, and I love Ancestral, their supplement called Blood Vitality, which is another one that's a nice mix. You don't take the full dose. The full dose has six capsules. I think that's super high. I usually recommend two to three capsules a day, depending on the case, but you could or you like to do that alternating thing. Maybe you do that. Maybe you get the blood vitality, if you can get it and alternate with the iron one day, the blood vitality the next day, and see. That might be a nice way for you to. Okay, so sorry. I cut you off. So iron, and then what else?

Speaker 2:

I'm not sure if it was available in Canada, but I'll look into it. I'll check it out.

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah, or liver. I know you can get freeze-dried liver. You're doing it?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I'm doing liver pills every day.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay, good.

Speaker 2:

What else am I doing? I'm doing quite a bit. Oh. My vitamin D was low, so I am supplementing, I think it's 5,000 IU, but plus I'm doing the liver, and I don't know how much, if there is any, in the prenatal.

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah, and then the cod liver there, some too. So have you retested your iron? Has it come back up?

Speaker 2:

No, I haven't done any testing. So I tested everything in February, so I had the last miscarriage at the beginning of January, so I haven't had anything tested since then, and I think that's it for my supplements.

Aimee Raupp:

Your thyroid's been fine? You checked that?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. My thyroid has been fine. I did have thyroid issues with my first pregnancy with my daughter.

Aimee Raupp:

And then are you tracking your cycle at all? Are you looking at the Mira, the Inito, or anything like that?

Speaker 2:

No. I'm just tracking at myself, and then watching the CM. I did the ovulation strips just to get an idea of where I'm at, but I still find it just kind of overwhelming, and I don't do it

Aimee Raupp:

Then, so where's your heart at with trying again?

Speaker 2:

I'm a little bit nervous, for sure, because it's not a matter of the difficulty in getting pregnant, I get pregnant quickly, but it's like, will it have a different income? I just want to feel confident that it will have a different outcome next time, that I've done enough. I know that I've done enough. I've done so much, even just lowering my stress and taking things out of my life and to the diet. I know that things are different.

Aimee Raupp:

And I even think maybe these are the things you focus on, of all these red flags that are different, all these things I've changed. The wobenzym has helped women. It's a small study, but recurrent pregnancy loss and two losses will put you in that category, or at least you're starting. There's been two losses. The small studies showed that women taking that through the first trimester, it helped maintain pregnancy and prevent loss. Then, the other thing I would think about in the two-week wait, and you talk to your doctor about it, of course, but adding in baby aspirin, adding in a low dose aspirin, because I'm just thinking about it from a a lining perspective and that decidual cast kind of thing, like just helping blood flow. You could also, if you felt like you needed it, go to a hematologist. I know your healthcare system's a little different and that's harder, and get the miscarriage panel done, which if you just go to aimeeraupp.com/miscarriage. You've gotten it done? Okay.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I got all of that done back in February after the last miscarriage, and everything came back good. The only issues, like I said, was the vitamin D was a little bit low, and my iron was a little bit low.

Aimee Raupp:

And both those things could be it too, because it's like, if you remember, you probably remember my answer to you, but the blighted ovums, it was like my one best friend, I was using her as the example that, and she was. She was pretty deficient, I suppose is what we would say in Chinese medicine, pretty blood deficient. The way I saw it was just the follicle was just kind of like eh. It was just the empty.

It didn't have enough energy to create the embryo, and so what you've done now in the 100 days of the egg quality diet, I think, and just all the things you're doing is really reset that kind of mitochondrial health, and almost maybe that's something you can work on emotionally, of like, “Look at all the changes in me, so I should anticipate the changes then in my offspring.” You know what I mean? Honestly. And maybe think of it like that, and then I think safely for you too, of just honoring your trauma and saying, “Okay, and what am I going to do if the same thing happens again? What's my plan then?” And do you have an answer to that or an idea of what the plan would be?

Speaker 2:

I think I would want to get a DNC. I wouldn't want to go through-

Aimee Raupp:

The process of losing the-

Speaker 2:

No. That was really traumatic. It was not fun, and I did start seeing a therapist too after all of this to help with everything.

Aimee Raupp:

The other thing that I think about, too, is there a need for, like this is aggressive in a sense, but a hysteroscopy, like to look at that uterine lining? Someone actually goes in the uterus and takes a look. Make sure there's no endometritis, if you will, no infection in the uterus. Then, that there's nothing going on structurally that's maybe causing that decidual cast to happen, have happened to twice, or that things aren't there to help nourish the embryo into development. I don't know if that's a thought.

Speaker 2:

That thought too, and I was sort of, because I don't actually have a family doctor, so that's a whole other-

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2:

But I did manage to get another doctor to refer me to somebody to do that. And I haven't heard back from them. And I just realized the other day, I'm going to try even without that. That's what feels good for me right now.

Aimee Raupp:

And that's it too, of what if we had a list of, “If this happens again, these are the next steps”? So almost like there's a safety net for you. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like a plan in place. That makes me feel more confident.

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah, good. And you can still hear me. A phone call just came through, so I wanted make sure I didn't lose you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay, good.

Speaker 2:

So what did I want to ask you? Going back to, there wasn't enough oomph for it to develop. I eat a good diet, and I have eaten a good diet, but I think for me it was digestive distress. I wasn't absorbing even the wonderful nutrients that I was eating. But I feel like this diet has really helped with that. I have watched almost every single one of your videos over the last three months. You live with me. You are with me in the past. I am all in. That self-starter, that has been me in my life, so I just want to say-

Aimee Raupp:

Thank you.

Speaker 2:

… Out there, because you are making a huge impact on people, so thank you.

Aimee Raupp:

Thank you. Thank you. That's my plan.

Speaker 2:

Pardon?

Aimee Raupp:

I said that's my plan, so thank you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So the last doctor that I saw, he recommended the baby aspirin and also that I take progesterone, but no one's ever tested me for that. What are your thoughts on-

Aimee Raupp:

I would do that. I would try or maybe not try this month, and we go and get, if you can, if it's easy, you go and don't just get one progesterone test. Get three though in the luteal phase, if you can. So four days after ovulation, six days after ovulation, ten days after ovulation, just to see what the number is. A lot of my girls will use the Inito, the Mira, or the Oova, which I know you can't do Oova in Canada, but I think you can do Mira and Inito, which they're helpful because then you can test every day, and you can really see what your levels are doing.

Then, even if you did try, it's kind of like, I don't know, a little bit of a crutch, because you're going to get to see, “Okay. Progesterone's high. Progesterone's high.” But you could also ask for whoever recommended the baby aspirin and taking the progesterone. You could just ask for the prescription, and that goes in the category of things I'm doing differently this time. Do you know what I mean? Of just feeling like, “Anything I can possibly do, I'm doing, and so, that way, I should anticipate a different result. Then, if I don't, then okay. Then, I think the next step is we look at the hysteroscopy, and that's what we do,” if you had another loss.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay. I just needed you to say that.

Aimee Raupp:

Aw. Well, there you go. I said it. I mean, it's just that I also think having had miscarriages, it's just like I see it with all my girls, we just almost need this checklist of, “Things I'm doing differently,” and then reminders too of how my body is different now, how it's changed so I should anticipate different results. Then, “Okay. Worst case scenario, if that happens again, what am I doing? What's my plan,” versus feeling totally chaotic about it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, exactly. A plan. It just makes me feel more confident, and it makes me feel like I can surrender. Now the rest is out of my hands, and I can lay back and enjoy my life. Actually, we decided to get married during all of this.

Aimee Raupp:

Oh, congratulations.

Speaker 2:

Just to [inaudible 00:19:54] our love and our family as we are now to enjoy [inaudible 00:19:58].

Aimee Raupp:

Aw.

Speaker 2:

Thank you.

Aimee Raupp:

You're welcome.

Speaker 2:

I think I heard everything.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay, good. Oh, wait. There's a question here. So baby aspirin, after you ovulate. Take it in the luteal phase from ovulation until pregnancy, and then if you get pregnant, like in this case, she gets a positive, I want her on the baby aspirin through the first trimester, and a lot of docs feel that way too. Then, honestly, now, it seems to be very common in women over the age of 40, because it helps prevent preeclampsia, so a lot of docs are putting you on baby aspirin at the beginning a pregnancy, all the way through the whole pregnancy.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow.

Aimee Raupp:

Yeah, because there's research to support it. But yeah, I feel like you're doing all the things. You got all the goods. It's now just like, “Okay. When am I ready to rip the bandaid off and try again?”

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I think at next ovulation.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay. All right. I want updates. DM me. Tell me it all, okay?

Speaker 2:

 Okay. I will. Thank you.

Aimee Raupp:

Okay. Thank you you so much. Thank you so much. Okay.

Speaker 2:

Bye.

Aimee Raupp:

I will talk to you guys soon. Goodbye.

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