Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: What's Egg Quality Got to Do With It?

This story is often the same.

Positive pregnancy test. Excitement.Go to your OBGYN.Sterile, crinkly paper.Phallic probe in the vagina.Then you wait…What do you see, doc? Is there a heartbeat? Is everything ok?Even in your 20s, your fecundity, a fancy term for “the likelihood of conceiving on any given cycle”, is around 20%. Instagram and Facebook would have you believe otherwise, but the fact remains: not every pregnancy goes the distance.Is something wrong with me, doc?What did I do wrong?

”Oh no, honey,” the good doctor says, “This happens all the time. Just keep trying…”You wipe up all of the goo and get dressed, holding back the tears until you’re safely in your car, shielded from all of the happily pregnant couples in the waiting room.While miscarriage is relatively common, it hits harder when it happens again, and again, and again, especially when you aren’t given any tools or insights as to why or how it keeps happening to you. Your mom told you that you were special, but you don’t want to be special in this way.

I’m joined today on the podcast with the two founders of WeNatal, my preferred prenatal vitamin company. In this conversation, they’ll speak to the void in conventional maternity care that leaves so many couples feeling hopeless and unsupported by their doctors, and they have a product that might be a step in the right direction…WeNatal offers his and her prenatals, fish oil, and a new “egg quality” supplement, and I’ve been passing them all out like candy to my Born Free Method community members and others who seek me out for guidance. Using THIS LINK, with any prenatal purchase, they’s throw in a bottle of their DHA Plus (fish oil) at no charge.

Their egg quality supplement contains five potent mitigators of oxidative stress: acetyl L-carnitine, Coq10, PQQ, NAC, and ALA. When combined with a sound prenatal, this supplement provides every reassurance that you are doing everything in your power from a supplement standpoint to improve the quality and function of your precious eggs. And the same goes for the guys and their sperm… If you’d like comprehensive support from pre-conception through postpartum, check out the Born Free Method. When you enroll, you score free samples of WeNatal’s his/her prenatal vitamins, and you get lifetime access with direct support from me and Sara Rosser, CPM, my co-creator. Lifetime. Access. Direct. Support. There’s nothing like it.Sara and I have a free pregnancy loss program that we are offering as well in the event that you want some support specific to your loss, miscarriage, or ongoing challenges with pregnancy.

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