Hello, everybody. I am so excited about today's guest. We have Ev on the podcast. Welcome to Unlock Your Vitality.
Uh, thank you for inviting me for this podcast. I'm super excited to share my story and I know you have a beautiful community, uh, who will benefit from it. So thank you.
Yeah, I'm so excited. Well, let's start with your story. Can you share more about your personal journey with fertility and what led you to exploring traditional Chinese medicine as a solution?
I am Eve Dorez and I am, um, actually a French midwife and I've worked like several years in France in, uh, you know, hospital and labor and labor room and postpartum units. Um, and I've always loved my job, uh, supporting couples through this, uh, beautiful journey of giving, you know, having a child. Uh, but I was very early, uh, very frustrated also with the system and the protocols and also, the Western medicine, not always having the good answer to the, you know, to the body's needs. And I turne...
Because we monitor that during the labor. the midwife was like, okay, if your baby's not born soon, we're going to have to call the OB GYN and, um, and they're going to do four steps. They're going to help for the baby to come out. And she did acupuncture in the meantime, while the OB GYN was like putting, you know,
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and putting the gloves on. by the time he was ready, the baby was just crowning and, and, you know, So I was like, that's amazing. How, you know, natural and powerful is acupuncture. And then I decided to, uh, to go deeper in that and like to get my certification. And so I moved to San Francisco eight years ago. Of course, I couldn't be a midwife here because, you know, it's not the same, um, certifications here. And I, I was like, yeah, let's do acupuncture school because I really want to know, uh,...
So, um, so I did the acupuncture school and then at the last year of school, I, you know, try to conceive myself. So I wasn't, um, graduated yet. But, so I, we tried to conceive and then I actually had, uh, two miscarriages in a row. so that was very, uh, disappointing and, and sad. And then I was like, my life, I dreamed about my pregnancy and birth, you know, as a midwife.
I see that every day and I'm like, it needs to be my turn now. And I was like, disperse feeling like, Oh, I'm not gonna never going to have a children. And because my body is not, you know, um, supporting that. then I was like, but I am in acupuncture school. So I will do acupuncture for myself very seriously. Because I used to do it here and there, but not. For any problem so far I had, I was healthy and like nothing happened, you know, in my life too much, but so I was like, yeah, let's do acupunctu...
So I didn't want to wait, but I was like, yes, I need to wait because if I don't. I will have my miscarriage. So, um, so I waited three months and then I took herbs every day, acupuncture one session every week. And then we try it again. And then I got my son, you know, like a healthy pregnancy, full term birth. so I was like, yeah, that's, that's really amazing. And of course you, you can be like, yeah, but we don't know, like if it's acupuncture or not. Cause at some point, yeah, people get pregnant...
It was very regular. And like the blood quality was way different. Like before that, I used to have like very scanty period just two days, kind of brownish and with some cramps and headaches, and then But after three months, after two months already, uh, blood flow was way more like bright red and like flowing like for full three, three full days, you know, you know, fluid, right?
Not, uh, not brownish kind of dry, but really bright red and with no clams. And so I was like, yeah, that's, that's super cool to see, to actually see the results of. you're doing for your body, you know? So that was very encouraging. And I was also taking my temperature at that time to do, uh, you know, the basic, uh, basal temperature charting. Uh, and I could see also by cycle one, two cycle three, uh, how the temperature, uh, charts was like changing and improving. It was definitely not so much ...
So I was, after three months, I was actually very confident that it would work because I saw the improvement on my, not just like waiting and, and, and trying, but, but just, uh, seeing the results actually. So that was great.
