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Whole-Body Fertility Care Through East Asian Medicine
Supporting natural conception, IVF and IUI, pregnancy, and postpartum with personalized acupuncture that cares for the whole person — not just the next milestone.
In East Asian medicine, fertility is about more than conception. It's your body's capacity to create, adapt, recover, and nourish new life.
Your menstrual cycle, hormones, nervous system, sleep, digestion, movement, and emotional wellbeing are all connected. When these systems are supported, fertility often becomes more resilient — not because we force the body, but because we help restore the conditions it needs to function well.
Whether you're preparing to conceive naturally, navigating IVF, supporting a healthy pregnancy, or recovering after birth, I'm looking at the whole picture.
Many of the women who come to me for fertility work arrive somewhere on this list:
Fertility, in my practice, is treated as a system. The body's ability to conceive, carry, and rebuild relies on the same systems that govern energy, hormones, nervous system regulation, and rest. Treating one without the others rarely sticks.
Most of the women who come in worried about fertility are already exhausted. They've been tracking cycles, scheduling appointments, optimizing food, and trying everything they read about. The session work often starts by relieving some of that pressure. Restoration, not reaction.
I believe in evidence-informed medicine alongside the wisdom of East Asian medicine. Good prenatal care, nourishing food, strength training, restorative sleep, acupuncture, and nervous system support all have a place.
Science and ancient wisdom can sit at the same table.
Both, every time.
My work isn't a replacement for reproductive endocrinology, midwifery, OB care, or pelvic floor physical therapy. It runs alongside. The fertility work happens at the body level, with the nervous system and the cycle, while your medical team handles the protocols and procedures.
I came to this work in part through my own fertility journey, including secondary infertility. That experience shapes how I hold patients carrying something quietly. I'll mention it when it helps. I won't lead with it.
It asks, "What pattern is your body expressing?"
Every treatment is personalized because every woman arrives with a different story.
Rather than chasing symptoms alone, we're looking for the underlying patterns influencing your health — whether that's stress, sleep, hormones, digestion, circulation, recovery, or the nervous system.
The goal isn't simply symptom relief. It's restoring the conditions that allow your body to function at its best.
Fertility work is paced for the longer arc. Cycles shift over months, not weeks. Conception is its own timeline that nobody fully controls. The work compounds. Each session usually depends on where you are in the arc.
Cycle regulation, ovulation support, stress and nervous system work, sleep. Acupuncture and East Asian medicine run alongside whatever fertility tracking, supplements, or specialist care you're already doing.
Sessions cluster around stim, retrieval, and transfer. Acupuncture doesn't replace the protocol your fertility specialist is running. It supports the body around it, so you go into each medical step a little more resourced.
The rhythm I generally recommend:
Late-pregnancy patients preparing for labor also have the option of the Reconnection Session, a 60-minute joint session with Ashlee Gendron, DPT of AG Physical Therapy. Acupuncture works alongside pelvic floor therapy in the same appointment, which for the right patient adds a layer of tension release and nervous-system prep that a solo acupuncture session cannot cover on its own.
Postpartum recovery, milk supply, sleep, and the emotional intensity that comes with becoming a mother. Most patients work weekly or every other week through the first three to six months.
You can start at any point. Ideally before conception. Realistically, whenever you find me.
If you're working with a fertility specialist or reproductive endocrinologist, keep them. The acupuncture work runs alongside their care, not instead of it.
If you're in active medical management of a known condition (PCOS, endometriosis, hormonal disorders), the medical team leads. Acupuncture is supportive.
For specific OB or gynecological concerns during pregnancy, especially anything that's bleeding or sudden or worrying, call your OB or midwife first.
For postpartum mental health that feels like more than typical fourth-trimester struggle — postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety that isn't improving, intrusive thoughts — see a mental health professional. Acupuncture can be part of the care, but it shouldn't be your only support.
Acupuncture has reasonable clinical evidence for supporting fertility outcomes, particularly when paired with IVF or IUI protocols, and when used over months rather than weeks. The mechanism is partly through stress and nervous system regulation, partly through hormonal regulation, partly through circulation. It is not a magic bullet, and it works best alongside whatever medical care you are already doing.
Ideally three to six months before you plan to conceive. The work compounds over cycles. If you have already started trying or are mid-cycle, start now: the body responds to support whenever it is offered.
No. Acupuncture runs alongside whatever your fertility specialist, OB, or other providers are doing. The both-and framing is the heart of how I practice.
Yes, when delivered by a trained, licensed acupuncturist who knows the points to avoid in pregnancy. I have extensive prenatal training and work with pregnant patients in every trimester. In California, look for the L.Ac. credential and a practitioner with specific prenatal experience.
It depends on where you are. Trying to conceive: typically weekly or every other week, paced around your cycle. Pregnancy: weekly in the first trimester, every other week in the second, weekly again in the third. Postpartum: weekly through the first months, then less often as you stabilize.
A 70-minute first visit, including a comprehensive intake covering your cycle, history, what is most active right now, and what you have already tried. Treatment is tailored to where you are in the arc, whether that is pre-conception, mid-pregnancy, or postpartum.
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Written by
Nina Jung, L.Ac.
Licensed Acupuncturist · Women's Health, Fertility, Hormones, Strength Coaching
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This page describes my clinical approach to fertility through East Asian medicine and acupuncture. It is supportive care, not a substitute for reproductive endocrinology, obstetric care, midwifery, or fertility medicine. Continue working with your medical team alongside this work.
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