“Making Babies is a marriage made in heaven. The best of western medicine combined with the yin-yang approach of the east. The end result? Restored fertility and vibrant health. Lovely.”

— Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

“This dynamic medical team provides easy to understand viewpoints from the ancient system of Chinese medicine along with practical advances in Western reproductive technology. Simple, informative, and entertaining, Making Babies gives you answers, and hope.”

- Randine Lewis, author of The Infertility Cure

Learn more about the family behind the YinOva Center in this

in depth profile from Town&Country Magazine

When it comes to getting pregnant, NYC women may have special challenges. (And not just because they tend to wait until their 30s and 40s.) “We are evolutionarily programmed to be less fertile during war and famine. And in New York, thanks to our unbalanced go-go lifestyles, we fake war and famine very well,” says Jill Blakeway, L.Ac, who’s the city’s leading acupuncture-fertility specialist and the coauthor of the best selling fertility book Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility which was published by Little Brown in 2009.

Jill, who is a former Professor of Traditional Asian Medicine, is the Clinic Director of the YinOva Center in New York City where she leads an experienced and caring team offering acupuncture, Chinese herbs, massage, nutritional advice, and lifestyle adjustments to New York women who are trying to conceive. “I wrote Making Babies: A Proven 3-Month Program for Maximum Fertility with a reproductive endocrinologist to give couples a clear three month program that they could follow to enhance their fertility. The book is full of lifestyle and dietary advice and helps the reader identify their own specific barriers to conception, outlining the best solution. “At the YinOva Center we provide the acupuncture, massage and Chinese herbs that the book suggests. ” says Jill who advocates a three month fertility boot camp “without the drill sergeant!” to help couples get in better reproductive shape.

More and more medical studies support acupuncture’s role as fertility-enhancer and as an IVF-supporter (by 42.5% according to Fertility and Sterility, a peer-reviewed journal) and at the YinOva Center the whole team is taught to integrate Chinese medicine with patient’s conventional medical treatment. “If we feel you need to see a doctor or have specific testing we’ll help you find one or work with your reproductive endocrinologist to make sure that you get the best both Eastern and Western medicine have to offer” Jill says.

When a patient first visits the center they are given a thorough health interview and a detailed history is taken. This helps the practitioner identify both the Chinese medical diagnosis and assign a specific fertility type so that they can follow the detailed recommendations in Making Babies. The book identifies 5 fertility types (Dry, Stuck, Tired, Pale and Waterlogged) and offers an easy to follow three month program for each type. As Jill says, “When writing the book I simplified Chinese medical diagnosis to make it easy for the reader to identify their specific type and find fertility solutions. All my staff are trained to offer this advice in person and support couples as they work through the programs outlined in the book”.

So what does acupuncture do for women trying to conceive? “It helps bring blood to a developing follicle nourishing the egg, helps to support a healthy uterine lining, reduces inflammation and gently balances hormones” says Blakeway, who adds, “acupuncture is also great for offsetting the effects of stress on the reproductive system and there are studies that show it reduces cortisol and prolactin levels both of which can cause infertility”.

“Our high success rates here at the YinOva Center prove that experience counts when it comes to using acupuncture to enhance fertility” says Blakeway who points to consumer reviews online where “over the years patients have left glowing testimonials about the center and how acupuncture has helped them”.

“We applaud the main message of this book: improving your health improves your chances of fertility. Making Babies is a must-read for couples wanting to increase their chances of conceiving.”

-William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N., co-authors of The Pregnancy Book and The Baby Book

“Filled with invaluable guidance from two seasoned, brilliant clinicians, Making Babies can speed up the arrival of your child without depleting your ovarian reserve or your bank account. It might even save your life.”

-Julia Indichova, author of Inconceivable

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