Fertility
Double Happiness Health is known for our integrative approach in optimizing fertility. Practitioners at Double Happiness Health are specialized in women’s health and fertility. We start with an in-depth health history and survey of labs to uncover any underlying female or male factors that might be preventing you from achieving or maintaining a healthy pregnancy. Whether you are trying to conceive naturally or using IUI or IVF, we work alongside your medical doctor or reproductive endocrinologist as we create an appropriate treatment plan that may include gentle acupuncture, nutritional recommendations, herbal prescriptions, supplements, mind/body and lifestyle tools to treat a range of fertility challenges including:
- Egg and sperm quality
- IVF/IUI support
- PCOS
- Recurrent Miscarriage
- Endometriosis
- Diminished ovarian reserve
- Advanced maternal age
- Unexplained infertility
- Male factor infertility
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a profound experience for you and your body. Chinese medicine sees this as an opportunity to support both you and your baby (ies). Various challenges may arise at different stages of your pregnancy. We find our patients tend to feel best with regular acupuncture care, especially in the first and third trimesters. At Double Happiness Health we use safe and effective protocols to ensure you are supported and get relief from symptoms such as:
Nausea
Fatigue
Anxiety
Constipation
Hemorrhoids
Back pain, neck pain, body aches
Edema
Headaches
Sinusitis
Breech presentation
Pre-Birth Support
Our practitioners are expert at helping at the last stage of pregnancy to prepare you for birth and delivery. We use a multidisciplinary approach including gentle acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, moxibustion, mind/body and lifestyle tips to promote an easeful birth. We recommend you come in weekly starting week 34 and twice per week at week 39 and week 40.
Postpartum
Also known as “the golden month” or “the fourth trimester”, the weeks following birth is a vital time to rest, renew and bond with your baby (ies). We provide recommendations to our patient that include nutritional recommendations and recipes, moxibustion, as well as self-care tips and DIY strategies to be sure your golden month feels grounded and supported.
Menopause
Chinese Medicine sees menopause as a “second spring”. For women this is an opportunity for rebirth of and for herself. At menopause one can be beautiful, vibrantly healthy and grounded in her inherent value. From a biomedical perspective, perimenopause typically begins in the 40’s, and is the process of the ovaries gradually slowing down in production of eggs and of estrogen. Menopause is declared after a full year of no periods, when ovarian function has ceased and there is a marked decrease in the hormone estrogen. The body begins to use a different type of estrogen called estrone, which is largely produced when adrenals convert androgens to estrone in the fat tissue. Adrenals also produce stress hormones such as cortisol. In a balanced body, the transition to menopause can be fairly problem-free. Prolonged stress, poor lifestyle habits and underlying gut imbalance can cause an imbalance in the sex and stress hormones, making the transition to menopause pretty miserable for some. Chinese medicine has unique strategies to help promote balance in the HPA (hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal) axis, improve digestion, and other systems using pattern diagnosis and customized treatment. We use gentle acupuncture as well as nutritional, supplement and lifestyle recommendations to address symptoms at their root. We often treat women with the following symptoms:
Heavy menses
Hot flashes, sweats
Weight gain
Low libido
Vaginal dryness
Insomnia
Fatigue
Anxiety, palpitations
Irritability, rage
Urinary incontinence
Hair loss
Osteoporosis
In Chinese medicine we consider the menstruation as an indicator of your overall health. There is an intricate communication between your brain, ovaries, adrenals, gut and thyroid that manifest in you feeling your best and cycling normally. A healthy menstruation should be regular each month with a steady medium flow and taper, no clots or cramping. Too often, women become accustomed to mood swings, irregular or painful cycles, spotting and chronic migraines. At Double Happiness Health, we can help establish a new normal with you. Our practitioners are specialized in women’s health. We start with a complete health history and survey of labs as well as our own pattern diagnosis to then create a customized treatment plan for each patient that may include gentle acupuncture, nutrition, herbal prescription, supplement and mind/body and lifestyle tools to bring you and your hormones into balance. We can help with the following conditions:
Post birth control syndrome
Irregular menstruation
Heavy periods
Light periods
Amenorrhea
PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome)
Dysmenorrhea (painful periods)
PMS, PMDD
Migraines
Chronic vaginitis
Chronic yeast infections