6 months into our TTC journey I decided I wanted to do more than just have sex every other day so I looked into fertility naturopath’s. I had seen Brad Crouch when I was a teenager because I suffered from really heavy, painful periods (yes I have been tested for both Endo & PCOS)
After reading his website and hearing from a cousin of mine about her success in seeing him I thought it was worth a shot. My husband on the other hand was sceptical (to put it mildly). After much coaxing of my husband, I booked us in for our first appointment.
Straight away, my husband was put off. Brad is by no means a small dude, and I don’t mean that to sound rude – just honest. My husband prides himself in being active. We both have to stay fit for our jobs but he has it easier as he has never struggled with weight issues.
Anyway! In the first appointment, Brad looked over my notes from when I was a teenager and asked me a few questions about my periods and their frequency. He looked at a copy of my husbands semen analysis and then looked into our eyes.
He told us he though my husband had a problem with his gut. Its apparently a common thing and a lot of fertility problems in general have to do with your stomach and how it works. He told me that he wanted to try a few herbs to “sort out” my periods. They were pretty regular, but still sort of painful, nothing excruciating but I definitely relied on Panadol during those days.
He gave me a bunch of supplements with some instructions on how to take them and when and told us about the GAPS diet, basically we had to try and go without sugar and processed crap. Like I said, we have to stay fit for our jobs and we ate (mainly) healthy anyway.
We walked away after 45mins and with $380 less in our bank accounts. I was feeling optimistic; my husband however, thought it was all a load of utter bullshit. Like I said earlier, he’s a sceptic.
Fast forward 8 months, after we had seen the clinic and after our wedding – still no baby. Month after month of getting my hopes up when my period was a day or more late was starting to wear us both down.
We decided to give up on Brad. Despite me following his advise – get more exercise, eat more greens, take your supplements. We still weren’t pregnant.
My periods became less painful but that wasn’t a good enough side effect to justify the amount of money a month we were spending on seeing him.
If anyone wants to know more about Brad Crouch,
http://www.naturopathauckland.co.nz/ visit his website. By all means – he has helped hundreds of ladies fall pregnant and for all we know he might have helped us if we kept going but we decided to try the scientific route.
