Top Tips For TTC

As a Woman

Natalie Crawford

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Natalie Crawford discusses her top tips for trying to get pregnant including coming off birth control, cycle tracking, and lifestyle optimization. As a society, we have normalized the idea of spending most of our reproductive years preventing pregnancy. Then suddenly you make the decision to start trying to get pregnant. There is often not a game plan when it comes to trying to conceive in the most optimal way or what are the warning signs something is wrong. The best way to be prepared for your fertility journey is to understand your body which is something so many of us don’t do. Listen to this episode if you are on your TTC journey or plan to in the future! Natalie answers your questions in FFS - For Fertility's Sake. 1.What can you do about low estrogen? 2.What are your tips for TTC while breastfeeding? 3.Can implantation bleeding have clots? Want to receive my weekly newsletter? Sign up at nataliecrawfordmd.com/newsletter to receive updates, Q&A, special content and my FREE TTC Starter Kit! Don't forget to ask your questions on Instagram for next week’s For Fertility’s Sake segment when you see the question box on Natalie’s page @nataliecrawfordmd. You can also ask a question by calling in and leaving a voicemail. Call 657–229–3672 and ask your fertility question today! Thanks to our amazing sponsors! Check out these deals just for you: Quince- Go to Quince.com/aaw for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Ritual-Go to ritual.com/AAW to start Ritual or add Essential For Women 18+ to your subscription today. Apostrophe- Get your first visit for only five dollars at Apostrophe.com/AAW or use the code AAW at checkout. Honeylove- Get 20% OFF by going to honeylove.com/AAW If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow the podcast to be notified of new episodes every Sunday. Plus, be sure to follow along on Instagram @nataliecrawfordmd, check out Natalie's YouTube channel Natalie Crawford MD, and if you're interested in becoming a patient, check out Fora Fertility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to As a Woman, fertility hormones and beyond.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and I am a board certified OBGYN and
0:14.3	fertility physician and also co-founder of for fertility in Austin Texas.
0:18.8	Each week on this podcast I discuss health and fertility and how they relate to your true self.
0:24.0	Become a part of the community of collaboration that amplifies others as a woman.
0:29.0	I hope you enjoy the episode. Welcome to the As a Woman Podcast.
0:38.0	I'm your host Dr. Natalie Crawford and today we are talking all about my top tips for you to start trying to get pregnant or if you're trying right now.
0:47.0	One thing that I think is just so interesting is this approach that society has generally accepted when it comes to your fertility,
0:55.2	which is spend half year reproductive life preventing birth control pills, condoms, avoid,
1:01.6	avoid avoid, avoid, and then suddenly you're going to wake up ready one day
1:06.0	and the idea is just pull the golly and try.
1:09.0	There's often not a real game plan about what are we going to do or what do we need to do to help
1:15.8	this happen in the best way or what are the warning signs something is wrong.
1:19.5	Also what's interesting is that if you contrast that to pregnancy itself,
1:23.4	there's an abundance of talk about what you should and shouldn't do when you're pregnant,
1:27.3	how to have the healthiest pregnancy, and generally how to prepare for that pregnancy. And so how to prepare for that pregnancy.
1:33.7	And so how to prepare for your fertility journey is really mostly about being educated
1:37.5	and understanding your body, which sadly is something that just so on the world
1:43.0	on the world around us and what we have been taught about our body
1:47.0	and what we have been taught about our body
1:51.0	and what we have been told often by health care providers about the world
1:55.2	around us and how that impacts our ability to get pregnant. So today we're going to be
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