To all those lovely ladies TTC at the moment I thought I'd share a little piece of wisdom my Acupuncturist shared with me when we were preparing to concieve our DS. She practises Japanese acupuncture which is a little rarer but so much gentler than traditional Chinese and uses visualisation techniques together with the needles etc.

To cut a long story short I had chemo treatments when I was 32 for breast cancer and we weren't sure if we would be able to concieve after it so to give myself the best chance of success I saw an Acupuncturist in Newcastle that specialised in fertility and womens health. After we talked for a while at the first session the very first thing she asked me was how attached to my belly bar I was. I asked her why and she said that there is a direct line of energy that runs from a womans heart to her ovaries and uterus and the metal bar sitting right across the middle was blocking the pathway.

I straight away said I do like it but if you believe it is in the way it's gone!

In the following treatments she worked on cleansing the pathway and opening it back up to recieve the love and energy from my heart to my important bits! Amazingly within 3 months we were pregnant and our dream of a family was on the way to becoming a reality.

I'll never know if it was just a flook or if it worked but I was willing to do just about anything as my Oncologist had told us the older you are when you start chemo the more likely it it is to affect your fertility.

Our DS arrived safely into this world and when he was 11 months old we concieved our DD without any trouble in the first cycle.

Despite the past I feel so lucky everyday and truely blessed whenever I look at my precious son and feel my little princess give me a kick hello.

For all others TTC perhaps it's worth a try if you have a naval piercing to take it out, traditional Japanese medcine and acupuncture is thousands of years old and I believe their wisdom and insight into the subtle energies within us is something to think about.