“I began attempts at having a baby as soon as I got married in my 40’s. I underwent IVF because of problems with my fallopian tubes but with the otherwise excellent hormonal profile of a thirty year old and with my doctor’s prognosis for certain success.
After three years of incredible distress that included IVF interventions and mainly due to a series of doctors’ blunders along with a corresponding, almost cynical, unconcern as to their mistaken evaluation, I had come to possess a frail endometrium that nullified chances for successful pregnancy.
So, at 43, I wanted to at long last find a way to end this, my disintegration, firstly as a personality and in spirit and then in body, in my quest to have a child. So I decided to make one last attempt but with taking the situation in my own hands somewhat.
Because, as I mentioned earlier, I by then had a serious problem in my endometrium and I had read somewhere that in such cases research has shown that acupuncture helps considerably, I asked my homeopathic practitioner whether she knew to recommend me an acupuncturist. She introduced me to Yannis. I started sessions with him. Actually I could not follow them all because I had thought and decided this at the last minute and so I did only four session up to the point of the embryo transfer.
It was the only IVF treatment where I literally paid no attention to what the doctor was telling me, I didn’t search the internet for more explanations. I did not torture myself with any of these things in the course of the one month that this process takes. I put doctors aside and focused on myself. Yannis had told me that “to get pregnant, you shouldn’t care to not get pregnant.”
Each woman most likely has own mindset on this issue and requires a different approach to it. But truly, throughout the course of this final attempt I DIDN’T CARE AT ALL AS TO THE OUTCOME. My endometrium, while at the start and during the process was inadequate, as always, on the day of embryo transfer, miraculously, it was in prime condition. And at the end, my test was positive.
What I managed to achieve in these four sessions under Yannis’ guidance, was to rid myself of the past, from the hardships I went through, both mental and physical, from whatever guilt feeling I may have had in relation to the issue of motherhood and to feel cheerful and strong and able to say that I put an end to this attempt in this regard.
Essentially, because of my age, that’s what I was searching for inside, namely, for the strength to say ‘STOP’ and carry on with my life, reconciled and at peace with myself. And, no sooner had I mustered the strength to say it, when came the ‘START’. As I write, I am three months pregnant and tomorrow I’m going for my first majot test, the nuchal translucency. I want this child like crazy. I want it to be healthy, but then again, I am tranquil and convinced that no matter what, through these sessions I found the way to administer the strength we all have within to face whatever in life. “