Hi guys
I've been thinking about why all of a sudden i got infertile. You know I'm from the country where we drink plenty of tea every day. 1-2 cups a day, some people drink 3 cups or more a day. We start our day with a cup of tea. When I came to USA I stopped drinking tea on a regular basis, and when my first baby was born I stopped making tea every day. It's been 3 years and I would make some tea very seldom once a month or 2 months. My DH loves tea and since I don't make tea every day he keeps buying teabags and drinks it every day. He feels very happy the days when all of a sudden I surprize him making a fresh tea.
All I wanna say tea is very good for fertility. I've been searching Internet and found that the researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California in Oakland were surprised to note that women who drink more than one-half cup of caffeinated tea every day may actually increase their odds of conceiving, according to findings published in the American Journal of Public Health.
However, "there may still be a [negative] relationship between caffeine and pregnancy, so that women should still be cautious about the amount of caffeinated beverages they consume during pregnancy.
You know all my life I've been drinking caffeinated tea, my family, sisters and in my family and among my relatives nobody had infertility problems, everyone got pregnant naturally even at the age of 37. My Gradma died at the age of 85 and had no disease, my great grandma died at the age of 98 and believe me they had no disease, they were so healthy, they died because they were too old. Sure, the environment was different, cleaner, not polluted. I know there are alot of other factors which cause infertility but before relying on doctors , pills, shots we have to take a good care of ourselves. WE have to eat properly. Vegetables, meat, fruits, whole grains, dairy, plenty of water, a cup of tea a day and exercizing or just walking. I used to walk every day from my home to underground and from underground to my work , back and forth every day, maybe 4-5 miles a day even more and i used to go to the gym and do aerobics 3 times a week 5 years straight before my first pregnancy at the age of 33.
I think it would be good for us to drink a cup of tea every day before we get pregnant. Is there anyone who doesn't drink tea?
Tea might have some disadvantages too (though I don't know anybody who was sick because of drinking tea), but it's better than drinking coffee , pepsi, coca-cola or artificially flavoured juice. We just have to eat properly. I always buy fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, no junk food. Very seldom pizza, we like eating pizza. I don't drink Pepsi or Coca-Cola, no juice, I just drink water, milk and from now on I'm gonna drink tea every day. I'm thinking about buying fertility tea too with the herbs like raspberry royale tea. Try to eat organic food, avoid GMO.
Other researchers admitted the possibility that drinking tea may help fertility, but the higher pregnancy rate observed in tea drinkers may also possibly be due to these women having healthier lifestyles.
I'm just sharing

So, think about this
Good luck

One more thing I wanna talk about.
The women start taking BC pills, shots since they are 15, 16 or even younger, it's a time when the body needs to grow and develop. The hormonal pills, shots to prevent pregnancy interfere with the natural processes in our bodies though the women don't feel anything. And when it's time to become a Mother, when a woman wants to become a Mother she faces lots of problems, infertility issues.
We have to use natural ways of preventing pregnancy, don't pollute our bodies. Sometimes I compare our body with the nature, it's a whole organizmn, we created so many problems for a nature, I'm not against the industry , technology, science (I'm a scientist myself) but when we interfere with the natural process it gets damaged, the great example is ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, polluted environment...
I know all this impacts our health and might be a reason for some of the infertility issues, but if we let the nature take its own course and not damage our system we'll reduce the problems we face later in life especially when we want to get pregnant.

I read that fertility tea contains herbs that may help with infertility, impotence and other hormone conditions.
Ingredients: Damiana leaves, Siberian Ginseng root, Saw Palmetto berries, Sarsaparilla root, Buckthorn bark.

Directions: Brew and drink 2 to 3 cups of tea daily. For chronic conditions use maximum dosage of 3 cups per day for 2 months, then cut dosage to 2 cups per day. This tea treats symptoms and helps the underlying problem. Always ask your doctor before taking any herbs, especially if you are pregnant or lactating.
I bought it online and will be drinking it as soon as I get it.
I'll try that and then let you know if it helps me.
At the same time i'm going to drink just a regular tea every day, I've just made it ( not teabags).

I have a feeling that the herbs will help me to achieve pregnancy very soon, maybe next cycle unless my dh has problems, he has to have a semen analysis.

I wish I got a big fat positive next month
I'm so positive about herbs
So help me God

Good luck to all

Good luck to you too sallyko! I just fixed myself some hot tea and then saw your post as I was drinking it! :D

Hi, Sally. I lived in London when I was a kid (now L.A.) and got addicted to English breakfast tea. I recently read in a book that there are properties in tea alone which have fertility enhancing properties, which was great to hear. I've given up diet drinks, anything artifiicial, meat, sugar and processed foods - I don't want to give up tea!! Glad to see I'm not alone.

Baby dust to you...

Nina

By the way I had a black tea every day throughout my first pregnancy like everybody else in my country. My baby is very healthy, smart , everybody is impressed by her. They say this little 3 years old girl got a high IQ. They say it's not right to drink a black tea during pregnancy. I'm sure it's better than other drinks which hurt us more ( I mean the artificially flavoured juice, pepsi, coca-cola...). Nobody miscarried or had problems during pregnancy because of drinking tea. I know alot of people, i have a big family, lots of relatives, friends, everybody drinks a black tea and have healthy pregnancy. Green tea might be better than black tea, but we're just used to drinking black tea every day. Sometimes we put some herbs in tea. I like green tea too.
I'm more concerned about the side effects of hormonal therapy in treating the infertility than drinking herbs. I don't know if i'm gonna take Clomid or something else but i definitely want to try herbs first.
Here I met women who were very concerned about their pregnancy and reduced intake of black tea, sugar, and increased intake of fresh vegetables, fruits. I'm against sugar too, but i was shocked when i saw the same woman with a cigarrette in her hands every day throughout her pregnancy and she was trying to convince me that the smoking won't hurt the baby. She has a healthy son, goes to school but you never know what she has done to him by smoking and you never know what health problems he will face in the future. It doesn't hurt right away, it takes time.
I just wanna a pregnant woman to quit smoking if she smokes and care about her child's health. Giving birth to a baby is not enough to become a Mother, a Mother is a person who is responsible for her child's future (i'm not talking about the accidents which might happen) and does her best to provide her children a healthy life.
I'm not teaching anybody here, I'm just upset a little bit, i was out with my child and saw a woman with the baby in her hands and she was smoking right in baby's face. I just got mad and went in.

i'm applying natural progesterone cream Happy PMS and i found an information that it can increase thyroid activity. I've been taking Synthroid since the first month of my first pregnancy when the bloodwork showed that I got thyroid disorders, mine was underactive. Now my thyroid is normal, I had blood tests done a few days ago.
I didn't consult with my gyn and started using the cream. I'll ask her tomorrow when having biopsy. It increased my BBT till 98,5 . Does anyone have underactive thyroid and use a cream?
Low progesterone is often misdiagnosed as thyroid deficiency.
Nevertheless thyroid hormone is basic to all biological functions and that sometimes both thyroid and progesterone supplements are needed. Estrogen (which we can try to balance with supplemental progesterone) inhibits the release of thyroid hormone from the gland, whereas an adequate amount of thyroid hormone, on the other hand, raises natural progesterone production and lowers estrogen. However, women who have symptoms of hypothyroidism but come out "normal" on a thyroid test may be progesterone deficient and can often be adequately treated by restoring normal progesterone levels using transdermal progesterone creams. So it means i can use the progesterone cream along with taking thyroid medication, but does it mean it might make the thyroid hormone increase and i'll get problems??? I don't understand this part. I'll have to consult with my doctor.