Latest / For the Love of Hormones- Miscarriage, Hormone Balance, Progesterone, TTC, Cycle Tracking, Conception, Holistic Health / 190 | The Signs Your Body is Ready to Conceive After Miscarriage
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- Bekah: You guys, before we get into today's very important episode, I want to invite you to get for yourself a free gift that I have made for you. It is called the Faith-Driven Fertility EBooklet. You can go to beccayawn.com slash booklet and get yourself a copy of it. This is going to give you the answers for what are the physical practical things that I can do to support my body naturally how can I strengthen my faith and trusting in God's timing ⁓ and trusting in him in this healing journey and waiting for him ⁓ to us a baby that we can carry all the way to terms. So you will get those answers inside of this booklet. It's free, it's for you. Go to beccayawn.com/slash booklet and get yourself a copy. Now let's get into today's episode: the signs that your body is ready to conceive after miscarriage. So if you guys have been following this podcast for a while, ⁓ you would know I have had three miscarriages myself. And I went through a whole kind of healing journey. that took a lot of diligence, took a lot of learning, and took a lot of changes to get healthy and get whole again. And so want to share with you what I learned and how I felt that I was ready to get pregnant again and not have to be super fearful about another miscarriage. and so that's what I want to do with you guys today is to help you get a feel for what are the signs that your body is ready to get pregnant again after miscarriage. So we're gonna dig into that today. And as we get into it, I just want to focus our hearts and eyes on the Lord, as he says in Isaiah 43, verse 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Don't you perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. And as we are reflecting on so ⁓ Desiring to be pregnant again and so wanting to be far away from this desert of a miscarriage or this desert of a loss or this desert of infertility. The Lord will make a way. Let's So last week we talked about different things that you can go through ⁓ with your doctor or maybe that your doctor not gone through with you before about what to do if you've had a miscarriage. And so we're gonna build on that today and talk about how would I know if my body is ready to get pregnant again. Before we get into that, I just have to say I really ⁓ Always encourage if you have had a loss, please consider waiting two to three cycles before, at the minimum, before you and your husband try to get pregnant again or are open to conceiving again. The reason for that, you guys, is I feel like my husband and I had two losses that we did not need to have, ⁓ and we didn't really have the answers for how to naturally avoid pregnancy. ⁓ With knowing when I'm fertile and not fertile until we learned a fertility awareness method. ⁓ learning that, we learned how to know when I'm fertile and when I'm not fertile. So we could avoid pregnant a period of time. That way we could figure out what was going on with my body and get healing. So we didn't have to keep going through more and more losses. So, first of all, I just have to talk about that. Okay. I know last week talked learning how to chart. Figuring out what your roots are, figuring out what your hormones are doing. Those are all really important. And so this week we're gonna go a little bit deeper on some of those things and bring something else in as well. So the first thing is we talked about your roots last week, but my question for you is have you discovered what your roots are? And not only that, have you addressed them? So have you figured out is your gut all messed up? Are your adrenals totally shot? is your liver overloaded? Are you dealing with a lot of inflammation? How is your thyroid doing? Like all of those things are incredibly important. And if one of them is off, or if more than one is off, it is going to affect how your hormones are doing. And your hormones, that's how you ovulate, and that's how your corpus luteum is formed that that produces progesterone. And so if if you're doing those things ⁓ you're figuring out what the roots are and you're addressing them, It's not a quick fix, but that's absolutely something that needs to have been addressed before I would recommend getting pregnant again. my personal story, some of my root issues were my thyroid. I was dealing with inflammation and I was definitely dealing with adrenal issues. And honestly, you guys, if you've been through miscarriage and if you've been through loss, I am sure your adrenals are at some in some way, shape, or form impacted because the grief. And the sorrow and the anguish that you go through with a loss is intense and it's very real. And that's definitely going to have an impact your stress hormones and your adrenals. And so, you know, just being aware of that and starting to love on them ⁓ and and figure out how to support them and make sure that they're doing well really critical before getting pregnant. it was ⁓ was a lot of discipline on my end to recognize like, okay, my adrenals are really messed up. And I mean, I did several things for them. And one of the things that I did was I had to sleep a lot. Like I had to let myself sleep. And I am such a busybody and I'm an overachiever and I love doing 500 million things at one time because that's just what I do. ⁓ in that season when I was dealing with adrenal fatigue, I had to rest and I had to sleep. I remember sleeping in late for so many mornings, and my husband was really supportive of me, but he was also like, Wow, why are you sleeping so much? And I'm like, I have to do this. This is the best medicine that I can take right now is sleeping. and so he was so supportive of me and helping out with our two sons at the time and just allowing me to sleep more. And that was huge in my healing journey. So figuring out what your root issues are and addressing them is key. One of the second things that I would really, really want to be leery of and looking at before getting pregnant again is how is your luteal phase? Your luteal phase is from the time after you ovulate until you get your period again, and you're counting those days. You do want to learn how to track your luteal phase with a verified evidence based method. I teach one of those, I teach the FEM method, and there are several other methods out there, but you want to make sure you are tracking specifically. with a specific method because if you're just kind of doing it willy wonky you might actually be not counting the days correctly and that could be giving you inaccurate data so definitely make sure you're tracking with a specific method and then like what's happening in your luteal phase how are you feeling seven to ten days before you get your period what's happening in your body what's happening in your emotions what's happening in your ⁓ are you getting a lot of rage? Are your boobs hurting? Are you getting headaches? Are you flipping your moods like pancakes? ⁓ So ⁓ if that's happening, that's an indicator that your progesterone might not be doing so And progesterone is mission critical to a healthy pregnancy. And so if there's ever any indicators that your progesterone might not be doing you know, the things that I mentioned, and also maybe if you're having a lot of spotting or brown bleeding before or after your period, that's another indicator. If you're having any of those indicators, I would really pump the brakes and figure out, okay, why is my progesterone not working optimally? and what root is impacting that to happen? So like I said, everything always comes back to those roots. If one of those root issues are off, that's definitely going to be affecting your progesterone. Because ovulation, it's like a secondary function for your body. So if your body feels like it's in survival mode, it will shut down your ovulation. It will even shut down your digestive system. And so it's so important to make sure you're figuring out what your roots are. And then once those have been addressed and you've been working on them and it takes a few months, you guys, this is not an overnight fix. Then assessing how is my progesterone doing? How is my overall cycle looking? How is my cycle health looking? This is one of my favorite things that I love doing with my clients inside of Fertility Framework is teaching them all of these things that they learn inside of the course. And then on the group coaching calls, they come and they bring their charts and they're like, okay, Becca, we've made the changes. It's been a couple of months. Here are my cycle charts now. ⁓ What do you think? How do you they look? And then we talk about it and I talk to them about the good, the bad, and the ugly or Prayerfully all the good and being like, you know what? I think you guys are ready to go ahead and try to get pregnant. obviously pray about it and talk to your husband about it and listen to the Lord's leaning. But your chart looks beautiful and go for it. ⁓ it might be a harder conversation of, you know what, like your chart is not looking so great right now. Here are the things that we're seeing. What could you do in your life? Like, let's discuss, let's have that conversation about what are the things that we could do to try to help bring this part of your chart up. based off of whatever the root is that you're dealing with could be. So we do all of that inside of the fertility framework program. It's one of my favorite things. The third and final thing that I would like to address about the signs your body is ready to conceive after a miscarriage is the peace ⁓ from the Holy Spirit and wise counsel. So fools do things ⁓ without seeking advice, ⁓ right? And so it can be the harder thing to do, but it can be the wiser thing to do to slow things down. Get this education, figure out what's going on in your charts, make some changes in your lifestyle to help improve those charts and get feedback, get wise counsel from people who know how to look at your chart, how to look at the whole picture of what's going on in your body and getting counsel from them is really wise. I love doing it. There's lots of other there's there's other hormone coaches like me who do it as well. And I see myself and other hormone coaches as just a wonderful addition to your care team and support team for getting feedback and advice. And way more important than us is the Holy Spirit and leaning into him and in your prayer ⁓ and and seeking him and getting really quiet and asking, Lord, is the Is now the time to try? Is now the time for you to pave a new river this desert? or Lord, do we need to wander in this wilderness for a little bit longer before it's time? And okay with whatever his answer is and leaning into that is so important. So you guys, I know this was a shorter episode today. I'm so thankful to just get to be a voice to encourage you. And ⁓ again, if you have not gotten your free booklet yet, that's gonna have a lot more tips in it that are practical for your physical and spiritual support and restoration. So go to Beccayon.com slash booklet ⁓ get that for yourselves. ⁓ if you're just ready to be like Becca, I want to, I want you on my team. I want you to teach me everything you know and give me all the feedback on my body and my charts, then come join me inside of Fertility Framework. You can get started today and I will be so pumped to get to start supporting you. ⁓ can go to Beccayon.com slash course and check that out. Let me pray over you. Lord Jesus, we just come before you. I thank you for just letting me get to speak today, Lord. I know it was more brief, ⁓ but I know that you spoke through me, God, and it was so powerful and clear and concise. And so I thank you for that, Lord. I thank you for the wisdom that ⁓ you have given me to give to my sisters in Christ. I praise you for the knowledge that you have given me to give to my sisters in Christ, Lord, and I pray that they would take this knowledge and apply wisdom to it ⁓ with doing something with it, Lord. you direct their steps? Would you direct their path? Would you bring them healing? Show them ⁓ what they need to do, whatever that looks like for them. and that that you would guide them in that so peacefully. I pray that you would ⁓ show them when it's time to conceive again, to partner with you, Lord, in this of how you give to their families. God, I just lift all these things up in your holy, powerful name. Amen.