"Most Couples are not experiencing infertility, but sub-fertility." 

~ Elizabeth Carpenter, MS, L.Ac., CEFP - a founding member of Dr. Lewis' Clinical Excellence in Fertility Professionals™ group.

We understand that our patients have been on a roller-coaster of hope and disappointment for months or even years, and that the quest for a biological child may have devolved into a deeply painful and prolonged experience.   Most of our patients  feel they can't wait even one more day for their children to arrive.

Enhancing Your Fertility at Oriens

Helping women step fully into their fertility begins with discovery.   Gently, determinedly, we work to optimize the likelihood of conception and full-term pregnancy.

Many women in their 30's and 40's come to Oriens with long and expensive histories of unsuccessful IUI's, IVF's and other procedures. Some have files inches thick of tests, diagnoses, procedures, surgeries, drugs, and more. Others are at the beginning of the process, wondering why they have not yet conceived.   Still others have suffered the heartbreak of multiple miscarriages.

Together we make sense of the data, what western medicine can tell us, and consider how to make best use of what it can offer. We work our way through the past to make sense of the present. We dialogue with one another and sometimes request more information from the biomedical experts that may not have been considered to date.

We also look underneath the reports. We begin to address underlying imbalances that might even be subtle enough to make biomedical testing come out "within normal limits," but throw the body off enough to prevent reproduction. We discover and correct deficiencies and overloads on various systems that may be undermining fertility.

Procreating is often possible once the woman or couple has moved into a higher state of health, perspective is regained, and the psyche is calmed down.

Our program has helped couples conceive who were facing:

• Poor Egg Quality
• Premature Ovarian Failure
• Poor Ovarian Response
• High FSH Levels
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
• Endometriosis
• Low Sperm Count
• Poor Sperm Motility and Morphology
• Implantation Failure
• Recurrent Miscarriage
• Peri-menopausal Hormone Fluctuation
• Missing or Irregular Menstrual Cycles

Using IVF and Reproductive Medicine

Oriens helps optimize your chances of success with ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology), preparing you in the months leading up to your pregnancy.  Acupuncture and Chinese medicine, nutrition, Maya abdominal massage, counseling and yoga are all part of the process.

At the time of your procedures, we offer the pre- and post- transfer acupuncture protocol medically demonstrated  to increase pregnancy outcomes by almost 50%.  We provide this as part of your Fertility Enhancement Program at Oriens, or, if your clinic agrees, Oriens comes to your IVF clinic. In addition, we work as closely with your RE and nurses as their availability allows.

Oriens enjoys a special relationship with Advanced Fertility Services and Dr. Hugh Melnick (The Pregnancy Prescription). In this collaboration, Dr. Melnick and Elizabeth share your bloodwork, ultrasound and other testing and procedure results, and conference your case all along the way. Sharon attends your retrieval and transfer to offer you important professional care and emotional support at these critical and often stressful times.

The Highly Successful Fertile Soul™ Approach at Oriens Healing Sanctuary

Elizabeth Carpenter, MS, L.Ac, CEFP is a founding member of Dr. Lewis' Clinical Excellence in Fertility Professionals™ group.

Your fertility journey at Oriens allows you benefit from the minds, insights, experience and support of Dr. Lewis and the extraordinary Chinese Medicine experts from around the world that she has assembled. We collaborate every day to resolve complex cases.

We are committed to currency with the latest research and fertility-enhancing treatments incorporating acupuncture and Chinese medicine, Western reproductive medicine, and complementary body-mind-spirit therapies, and to bringing them to our patients.

Recovering fertility comes from helping the body reach its potential through addressing issues that are truly physical as well as those that stem from mental, emotional and spiritual stresses which steal resources from and undermine important communications within the reproductive system. This approach can help whether a couple is pursuing assisted reproduction or looking for a natural solution.

The Fertile Soul™ approach integrates acupuncture and Chinese medicine with education, diet, nutritional supplementation, exercises to improve the reproductive response (yoga, qi gong, dance), meditation, and counseling to facilitate internal self inquiry leading to cognitive restructuring.

We help our patients prepare themselves as well as possible for a natural or assisted conception and pregnancy using holistic treatment methods. We ask for 90 days, enough time to change the environment in which your eggs mature.

As you shift your health, energy and reproductive environment over that time, the new eggs that enter into a more fertile environment are more likely to fertilize into embryos and go on to implant and grow in a healthy uterus. For those that feel they must be doing a procedure during this time of restoration, we suggest natural IUI.

Your diagnosis is just that – a diagnosis and nothing more.

Advanced Maternal Age, Poor Ovarian Reserve, High FSH, Unexplained Infertility, POF, PCOS, and more...are diagnoses, not summaries of who we are and what our fertility potential is.

Chinese medicine does not look at fertility and age in the same way that Western medicine does. By addressing the deficiencies and imbalances behind the laboratory values, our clients often find that even after years of heartbreak, numerous failed IVF attempts or other procedures, they receive the results they have dreamed about.

Nearly every day we hear about fertility successes from people who tried our approach after all else had failed.

Contact Oriens at 212.213.5785 to schedule a consultation. Enjoy Surround & Support on your journey.

Regardless of where you live, we invite you to take advantage of this special opportunity to have a fertility consultation with Elizabeth Carpenter, MS, L.Ac., CEFP