Christmas fertility and alcohol

Christmas fertility

This time of year, the big question becomes how to successfully navigate Christmas fertility?  You’re trying to conceive, so you’re eating healthily, avoiding alcohol and late nights, reducing stress, etc.. And now you have to go to parties with unhealthy food, alcohol, late nights and it becomes a source of stress.  You may be starting to worry and stress about how you will go to the party and not drink.  If you don’t drink people may think you are pregnant and that is not what you want.  You also may not want people to know that you are even trying to get pregnant and having difficulty.  So you worry and stress about what to do for weeks.  My years of experience in the clinic has taught me that it is far worse to spend weeks worrying and in stress mode than it would be to have a glass of wine on the night.  Over the years I’ve seen so many women stress and worry about alcohol consumption and the Christmas parties compared to the women who choose to have one glass of wine at the party or dinner.  One drink gets everyone off your case and allows you to have fun as well.  Think about Christmas fertility this way: Getting pregnant is about a time of abundance.  It is not about lack.  Christmas time with all the parties, presents and food is all about abundance. Christmas time can also make abundance tip over into excessiveness so don’t go overboard and drink loads.  Abundance for fertility means you should have all the healthy harvest foods, it is not a time of famine or drought.

In keeping with the Christmas fertility abundance theme, it is also a good time to take stock of all the things and people in your life that you are grateful to have.  Christmas can be a time of year where it highlights what you don’t have and can make it ache just a bit more than other times of the year.  It’s OK to feel that way, most of the women who come into the Acupuncture Clinic this time of year are feeling pretty low and are hoping to just get through Christmas quickly.  If you are feeling low and in need of a pick me up then making a list of the things you are grateful to have can sometimes do the trick.  You can then keep this list handy so you can read it again and again as needed.

Though sometimes, you just need to have that cry and get it all out, that’s OK to do as well.  This is all about you and what works for you.