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Cuddle Therapy - IVF
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Cuddle Therapy - premature and sick babies
Cuddle Therapy - trauma, grief & depression
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What must it be like to want a child so much it consumes your thoughts every moment of everyday? This
is reality for thousands of couples each year that are trying for a baby
using IVF. For many couples it means having to go through the IVF
programme more than one time. This means an enormous pressure on both
their financial situation and an emotional roller coaster that many of
us are unable to comprehend. Together with the woman’s hormones being
everywhere, this leads to high emotion and considerable stress. What if there was a way to ease the stress and maybe contribute to the correct environment, within the woman’s body, to make pregnancy happen and continue into the birth of their much-wanted child?
I
believe that Cuddle Therapy offers this. The
stress related to all the treatment in every stage during IVF treatment
send the body into all kinds of emotions. When the woman is undergoing
treatment to ensure that enough eggs are produced, her body is being
swamped with hormones that turn her emotional system upside down, let
alone the worry of will it work, how many eggs will there be, etc.
Once the eggs have been ‘harvested’, there is then a wait of a
few days while everyone waits to see if any of the eggs are actually
suitable to go back into the woman. Once the fertilised eggs are inside
the uterus the woman goes through all kinds of emotional turmoil with lots
of what ifs!!!! Research is showing that contact with these therapy dolls, can reduce stress levels and re-balance hormones. How
can that help? Although
at the moment there is no solid evidence that a woman’s emotional state
of mine has any influence on the success of fertility treatment, without
much doubt, living on adrenaline while going through this process,
certainly does have long-term effect on the body, and could have some
effect on the IVF treatment. So what kind of hormones could be advantages
in the IVF treatment? What
if we could fill the energy system with positive thought and hormones?
What if we could encourage the body to produce oestrogen, progesterone and
oxytocin, the natural hormones of love, the hormones that fill the body
each time conception takes place naturally. Would this encourage the body
to produce more fertile eggs and then to establish and maintain a healthy
pregnancy? I believe so……and I also believe it would help with stress associated around this time of a woman’s life. How
could this work? While
under the pressure of IVF, the woman’s body is running on all the
hormones that are associated with fight and flight, mostly adrenaline.
Naturally so, as the pressure she is under with the worry of all the
‘ifs and maybes’, produces these hormones. Research is now showing
that cuddling these dolls stimulates the ‘nesting/mothering’ hormones
to surface and take the place of the ‘flight and fight’ hormones. This
with the therapy of EFT and possible other complimentary therapies helps
stimulate these hormones AND with therapy can give the woman a more
continues positive outlook on the IVF treatment. This
has to be better for the woman, her partner/family and also the pregnancy. I
am currently researching and collecting data on this subject. Thank you Ruth
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