Natural Pregnancy After Failed IVF Success Stories

Natural Pregnancy After Failed IVF

Julia!!! Our baby is born…and he is everything and beyond what I had in my imageries…Your work has changed my life forever…I sometimes hold the baby think about the workshop and have tears in my eyes as that was the first time I felt I could be a mom during that workshop. I also sometimes tell him how we met him half way.

V. keeps talking about your work the workshop and how you supported us throughout…We love your work so much and owe you the empowerment and hope you instilled in us.

-N.& V. Spontaneous (natural) pregnancy after 2 failed IVF’s participated in the 3 Session Intro Series, the Meeting Your Child Halfway Workshop

Natural Pregnancy after 5 failed IVF’s, 1 failed IUI, 1 miscarriage

Dearest Julia,

You have been so much on my mind.

So far, the pregnancy has been blessedly uneventful…If you recall, I found your website the week I found out my transfer didn’t work this first week of April. I want you to know how much it saved me from going down a dark hole. You are an angel. This whole year I have felt a slow unraveling of myself. I listened to your chant about how this journey is a blessing and not a burden and I have kept that in my heart since.

Thank you for the wonderful teleconferences and workshop. Thank you again for all that you have done for us.

P & D, Chicago

Gen G. – Natural Pregnancy after 15 Failed Fertility Treatments

I came to  Julia’s website just over a year ago with 6 failed IUIs, 5 failed IVF cycles, and 4 more cancelled IVF attempts.  I had been trying to have a child for over 6 years and went through every fertility medical route possible.  I was 40 years old and was being told by some of the best doctors in the field that I needed to strongly consider donor eggs…

After thoroughly reading every page of Fertile Heart, I decided to go for a natural pregnancy after multiple failed IVF’s.

I loved her saying that at a minimum I’d be getting myself into the best health possible. I bought both her books, Inconceivable and The Fertile Female,  and signed up for her workshop… The workshop was amazing.  Again, a bit skeptical as we first drove up, but the whole experience really changed me.

I left feeling a huge weight lifted off of me and a positive energy of hope I hadn’t felt in a long time… I signed up for the Fertile Heart Teleconferences and did my Fertile Heart Imagery twice a day.  I figured if I was going to do this program, I was going to put 110% of myself into it.

Read Gen’s full story here

Sarah P. London, UK – Natural Pregnancy after 6 Failed IVF Treatments & 4 Failed IUI’s

Y.L., New York City – IVF and IUI without success

Louise L. Boston, MA Natural Pregnancy at 44 after 3 Failed IVF, 3 Miscarriages

I am writing to share that I am pregnant! This baby is a miracle for us. I turned 44 in May and have experienced 3 miscarriages prior to this pregnancy. We went through 3 failed IVF cycles.

This will be our first child. I wanted to thank you, Julia, for your books, the workshop and the phone circle. I think that all of it had a cumulative effect in helping me create this baby.

The workshop in particular really helped me to not give up and to believe that my “assignment” was to do the work and to believe that I could create a healthy baby. What you wrote in your books, talked about in the workshop and phone circle were like medicine for me.  Read more about Louise’s journey in Bethany Saltman’s piece, Unbelievable Hope, Julia Indichova’s Low Tech Infertility Cure.

Dalia D. – Twins Conceived the Old Fashioned Way after 2 Failed IVF’s & 4 Failed IUI’s

4 Failed IUI”s, 3 Failed IVF cycles

“I had my first daughter 5 years ago and had no trouble at all conceiving.  However, when my husband and I tried to have a second child we found ourselves catapulted into the incredibly painful world of infertility.  After 6 months of trying, I was worried and ran to the medical world looking for fast results and was willing to try any drugs offered me.  I was told that I had high FSH despite being relatively young and that was why I was experiencing secondary infertility.  The RE, quite matter-of-factly told me that I would likely go through menopause at around 40 and had about a 2% chance of conceiving naturally.   I was incredibly devastated and after days of crying, I dove into IUI—I went on do this 4 times, without any conceptions. After the failed IUIs we moved on to IVF.  We did 2 IVF cycles both of which failed and neither of which produced even a single fertilized egg!

My desperation grew, then hope & Woodstock

My devastation and desperation grew and I began to search incessantly on the internet for any solution to high FSH, despite the fact that the RE had told me explicitly that there was no way to lower one’s FSH.  I then stumbled on a blog post in a discussion about FSH that mentioned Julia’s book Inconceivable.

I got the book as fast as I could it and read it voraciously. Suddenly, I felt like there might be something I could do to change things and to heal. I immediately looked up Julia online and decided to attend her workshop in Woodstock. It was such an emotional experience for me—I remember when we were doing imagery and singing, my tears were just endless and I felt deeply drawn to her work. This was the first place I had been during these years in which it was ok to cry and to feel.

3rd IVF ended with miscarriage at 6 weeks

After 2 failed IVF’s, the RE almost canceled my third IVF cycle mid-way since I seemed “too emotional”—apparently it’s not ok to cry when receiving bad news in her world. I had already started my third IVF cycle at the time and figured I would go through it while doing Julia’s work.  I bought a juicer, Julia’s cds, and supplements, and began. However a few weeks later my third IVF cycle ended with a miscarriage at 6 weeks.  We had only had one fertilized egg so it felt to me like we were back to square one.  To make matters worse the RE handed me a prescription for Valium, and told me there was nothing left they could do for me and shooed us out of their office as quickly as they could.  She said we needed to move forward to adoption, donor eggs, and a clinic for really severe cases.  I experienced deep mourning after that loss and felt completely hopeless.   In that moment I emailed Julia and I she replied that she believed I could turn things around.  I wasn’t sure about that, but I was willing to follow her and try.

I joined the Visionary Moms and began working more deeply

I joined the Visionary Moms Circle and began working much more deeply.  I learned so much about myself and had so many epiphanies with the OVUM work.  Working with Julia helped me in moments in which I absolutely had lost all hope of conceiving and participating in the forum and phone circles removed my deep feelings of isolation and gave me a healthy way of walking towards my babies”

Anna H. – Pregnant with Twins Conceived Naturally after a Failed IVF at 43

Deidra – Spontaneous Pregnancy after 3 Failed Egg Donation Cycles

I had really hit rock bottom

“I had really hit rock bottom after our third failed egg donation cycle.  I was feeling so defeated, so discouraged. We had gone through five or six embryos. There was no reason to believe the one we had left was going to work. They kept saying if I fixed the egg problem, it would be good. I fixed the egg problem, but nothing was good.

The night I got the call that it didn’t work I started reading The Fertile Female again because it was the only thing that made me feel better. That’s when I decided I needed to go to a workshop in Woodstock because the teleconference series wasn’t going to be enough. I felt very connected to what was in the book, but I also felt very overwhelmed as to where to begin. I started the dream journal and the food changes because those were things I understood.

The courage to show up

I felt I needed to attend the conferences in Woodstock to get a true sense of direction and that was really hard for me. I’ve always been very shy and never go tot new places or do new things on my own. I always needed to do it with another person. This was really putting myself out there. As much as it stressed me out, this was the challenge I needed. I needed to fix me before I moved on to the next donor cycle.

I remember crying just filling out the paperwork when I got there. I realized I wasn’t the only one and that made me feel less isolated. Julia remarked about how much courage it took to show up and that enabled me to move forward. I was able to be open and let my raw emotions come out. Listening to other women’s stories and Julia’s questions really struck a chord with me as to why I made certain decisions and what pushed me that way. One of the things she said was not to make any decisions when you feel defeated. I suddenly realized that  that’s how I had made every decision up until that point! Out of feeling defeated and out of panic. That’s what I did with every IVF cycle and every egg donor cycle. I just kept moving on to the next one and never let my emotions settle.

Issues in my tissues

During what Julia calls Body Truth exercises in the afternoon of the workshop,  I realized I had tightness in my chest. I always thought it was related to a dislocated rib from an old injury. Suddenly I breathed in and I could breathe fully. There was no tightness or knot over that rib. That was a really remarkable moment for me because something physically had released. What a difference I felt! When I did the teleconference series after I came back from Woodstock, it was helpful, but I felt that didn’t participate as much as I could have, because I was in my comfort zone in my home and I could hide the way I couldn’t quite hide in Woodstock.   Although many of the other women on the call were very open and it was good to have that connection and check in. Also Julia’s assignments helped me understand the tools more and to focus.

My top priority – heal myself

After Woodstock, my husband I decided not to  go back to see the doctor until January. I was turning 35 in mid-January and had been dreading that birthday – that’s suppose to be a significant number in the fertility world. I just wanted to be away from that kind of  negativity and enjoy the holidays with our family. I really didn’t know if I wanted to go through the whole thing again with the last embryo.

My top priority was healing myself.  I continued with the dietary changes and I understood the OVUM practice a lot better.  Julia helped me figure out which exercises to do and guided me through different strategies. I shared with Julia that my husband was worried about me.  He was scared that I was believing too much in the Fertile Heart practice –that I would be able to get pregnant on my own.  He was afraid to see me go through the cycles of hope and disappointment, and he felt that we were losing time. So as much as he was trying to support me, he didn’t understand the practice. I asked him to read Julia’s Fertile Female and he agreed.

I told him I just didn’t want to move forward with any bitterness and carry it with me. My goal was to heal myself so I could be a better mother, wife, friend –  a better person. Julia and her work changed my life in so many ways; changed who I am and how I have been moving forward with life. Getting pregnant was the highlight of it, but it was the whole journey and I can’t thank her enough for everything and her support. Carrying this baby is the happiest thing I could be doing right now. (Deidra’s full story is part of the upcoming Ebook: Egg Donation as an Instrument of Healing: The Fertile Heart Road to Getting Pregnant through Egg Donation.)

Debbie A., Boston, MA

Comments are from Fertile Heart™ workshop participants. A number of Julia Indichova’s former clients are also available for interview. Film clips from a currently filmed documentary are available upon request.