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RESEARCH for
Yourself
by Lori Ramsey
This is about my opinions and I
am in no way encouraging others to treat themselves, or to not seek the advice
of their healthcare provider. I do encourage you to seek the advice of your
healthcare provider before trying anything I or anyone else suggests. With that
said here are my thoughts.
Trying to conceive can be a very stressful and frustrating time. I blindly
conceived, carried and gave birth to my first baby, full of ignorance about my
body and about my choices. I conceived my second baby two weeks after a
miscarriage, which I still didn’t have a clue as to why I had the miscarriage
and wondered if my baby would actually be carried. Thankfully I did carry her,
though prematurely. She is fine and healthy now.
It was during the trials of conceiving my third baby that I experienced minor
infertility. After speaking with many other women on this same journey and
speaking with my own physician, I realized that if I were to get to the bottom
of my infertility it would have be up to me. I fumed at the stories of women who
had miscarriage after miscarriage and nothing was done to determine why. A lot
of them were told there was nothing wrong with them, therefore there was nothing
further to do to prevent another miscarriage. I loathed the attitude that “Well,
you already have children, so there’s no need to test you or find out why you
can’t have more.”
Doctors are wonderful people, but they are human, they can make mistakes. It
really pays to research for yourself ways of treatment and cures. Don’t just
assume that because your physician prescribed it that it must be okay. A lot of
medical fertility treatments can be very harmful and it is important for your
health’s sake to do everything possible naturally first. Most “mainstream”
physicians don’t practice or even have much knowledge about natural remedies.
I’ve been shocked with the number of physicians who don’t know about natural
progesterone cream. Catherine P. Rollins really drives this point home in her
candid letter to her visitors on her About Us page of her website: http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com/about.htm
. I have to say, I agree with her here.
If you have been trying to conceive for longer than six months, if you have had
more than one miscarriage, even early miscarriages, then you owe it to yourself
to find out all you can about natural cures and remedies and about your rights
as a patient. I strongly encourage education in the area of human reproduction.
Find out all you can and about all your choices. The internet is full of
information, some good, some bad. Don’t just take my word for it, research it
for yourself!
Lori Ramsey
of
Stages in Pregnancy
©Lori Ramsey 2005
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