Overcoming Infertility and Autoimmune Issues to Conceive After Failed IVF Treatments

We were in a position of needing help for so long. Now we want to help others and be an advocate f- for this program and for any other program that might help people not lose hope. I'm Nikki. This is Joe. We're in Ohio. Well, a lot of people ask us how we're sleeping now that we have a baby, and I think we're sleeping way better than we did for the five years that we were struggling with having children. Every day there was an increasing, growing possibility that we may never have children. As the world c- continues to turn and life keeps moving, it's extremely difficult to pretend like everything's okay for years and years and years. Our whole lives revolved around surgeries and medicines and IVF and everything in between. It was two, three years prior to actually committing to the program, we reached out, and we were kind of unsure of which route to take, and that was before we decided to go IVF, and it was just kind of like where our finances were and everything, and we were right back to where we started. After failed attempts, miscarriages, we reached back out, and it was, if I'm being honest, kind of a last resort, and had we known what we know now, we would have probably gone that route first. Yeah. Yeah, we went to her in total desperation, a last resort. The thing that made me hesitate most was everything being in online format. I'm in the medical field, so we had tried every medicine. I was an extreme skeptic, you know, just knowing, like, the naturalistic side and the, uh, changing your diet and taking supplements. It just felt like we were pooling at straws, and I didn't love how, from what we were explained to, that we would do, like, Zoom calls and never actually be with a doctor one-on-one. I was worried about that. The upfront cost. I came from a traditional medicine standpoint and thought that we had tried all of that. How could this possibly work? So I am so glad that they made a fool out of me for questioning it. I had just had a D&C after IVF when we started the program, and following that, I developed shingles. I had diagnosises of autoimmune issues. So starting the program, I was in really bad shape physically and mentally, just with all of the stress that we were dealing with. Probably a month, I already started seeing a difference in my health. I really started to notice a difference with the consistency of, like, the supplements and diet and everything. And then by, I think, uh, we were just two weeks short of the program being finished, and I was pregnant. We never thought that was possible. That was far from celebration for us, though, because we had had so many pregnancies that had ended badly. So we were pregnant, but that wasn't the time to cheer, you know, or celebrate in any way. I was feeling better, and I remember Dr. Neshath said she wouldn't be surprised if during this pregnancy the antibodies for my autoimmune went away. And we monitored the whole pregnancy through blood work, and the autoimmune disappeared. That was interesting. There's a lot of truth in- Yeah ... you know, diet and supplementing and just being... getting overall to a healthier standpoint. Her AMH level also went up too- Yeah ... which was incredible. Everything you read says that that's impossible to go up, and once your AMH level went up, that's when I kind of started to believe that we were doing the right thing. Yeah. I started out doing the program in spite. I will eat whatever they say. I'll refrain from everything just so at the end I can say I did everything right when it doesn't work. That's how cynical I was about it. So I was very black and white doing the program, but I did it, and so did you, religiously. Well, first of all, he wanted to jump through the phone to hug Dr. Neshath because at the beginning he said, "You know, when this doesn't work, I kind of told you so, but we're gonna try it, and I'll support you and everything." And by the end, he was, like, a spokesperson for the program. When we were going through all of our losses and our heartache, we grew very close to... We grew in our faith, and God is totally responsible for our baby. There's no doubt about it. But second to God, it would be Dr. Neshath. She helped us so much. I'm still, you know, beyond words to describe what it feels like. But I know that there are so many people that deal with similar issues that we dealt with. I would say that if we were able to have a child, anybody on Earth is able to, for sure, because of everything that we had gone through. I would have quit a long time ago. She's my hero for pushing through all of this and, you know, going through what she went through is beyond anything that any mother or wife would have to go through. To see her holding the baby is just... It's utopia every day. It's, uh, euphoria, I guess.