If you saw my Instagram posts this week about the “unhinged” things I did to get pregnant, and the supplement my body couldn’t actually use, here’s the fuller version.

Twelve months before we even started trying, I made a decision:

I wasn’t going to guess about my own fertility. I was going to test.

To understand why, I need to take you back a bit further.

The label I carried for years

As a teenager, I sat in a doctor’s office and was told I had PCOS (now PMOS).

I was also told that meant I’d likely struggle with fertility, or possibly not be able to have children at all.

I carried that for years.

Then in 2022, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition.

Rather than just starting medication and hoping, I wanted to get to the root cause of what was actually going on in my body.

Looking beneath the surface

So I did a full functional blood analysis, not just to manage symptoms, but to check in on my health more broadly and understand where I actually stood.

That’s where I found my B12 was low and my homocysteine was high.

Together, those two numbers point somewhere specific:

• Either my body wasn’t absorbing B12 properly, despite eating meat regularly  
• Or there was a methylation issue underneath it

That question led me to genetic testing, where I found out I carry the MTHFR gene variant, the same variant that changes how your body processes folate.

I kept asking questions, and gut microbiome testing picked up SIBO and intestinal permeability too, meaning my gut lining had become permeable enough that things were getting into my bloodstream that shouldn’t have been there, driving inflammation well beyond just digestion.

That whole process taught me something important:

My body had been trying to tell me things for years, and nobody had actually looked properly. Root cause first, not symptom first.

How that changed the way I approached fertility

So when we decided to try to conceive, I already knew about the MTHFR variant from that earlier testing, and I knew the folic acid in a standard prenatal wouldn’t do what my body actually needed.

I didn’t want history repeating itself in any other part of my health either, so I tested everything else I could.

I started tracking my basal body temperature and cervical mucus every single day, rather than just assuming I’d know when it mattered.

• Temperature tells you when progesterone rises after ovulation 
• Cervical mucus changes texture and consistency as you approach your most fertile window, from dry, to sticky, to the clear, stretchy consistency that shows up right before ovulation

After a few months of this, something shifted.

I stopped needing the data to tell me. I could just feel it.

The cycle we actually conceived in, I ran hotter than normal for days. Two days before my period was due, I just knew things were different. I didn’t even need to test yet.

Now, I want to be clear, I cant say testing is why we conceieved, and no test can promise that. What it did was replace guessing with infomation and data that could be used to track where I was at with my health, my micronutients, and was I actually regularly ovulating... 

Why testing before pregnancy mattered

I used those results to make targeted changes to my nutrition, supplements and gut health, instead of guessing or trying whatever was trending online.

I also gave my body, gut and microbiome the attention they needed before adding the demands of pregnancy on top.

Which I am so grateful for now. Pregnancy and breastfeeding are some of the highest demands your body will ever face.

I was the only woman at the midwifery group practice who wasn’t supplementing iron during my pregnancy.

By the time we tried, I wasn’t hoping. I knew my body well enough to trust it.

First try, I was pregnant.

This isn’t about copying me

I’m not sharing this to suggest everyone needs to do exactly what I did.

I’m sharing it because most people are never offered the option to actually look.

Women are told to take a folic acid supplement, told to relax, told it’ll happen when it happens.

Nobody hands them a map.

That’s what the Functional Bloods Analysis is built to do.

It’s not just for fertility. It’s for anyone who’s tired of guessing about their own body.

If this is you

If that’s you, I’d love to help.

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