How can I naturally thicken my uterine lining?
What is a good lining thickness?
For women of reproductive age, the uterine lining thickens and thins according to their menstrual cycle. The endometrium can be anywhere from slightly less than 1 mm to even 16 mm in thickness. Studies suggest that uterine lining thickness under 6 mm results in problems with getting pregnant, even with IVF or egg donation. Therefore, most reproductive specialists would prefer their patients to have their lining of at least 7-8 mm. How to increase the uterine lining thickness, then?
Well, yes. A natural cycle will be the most natural way of thickening the endometrium for an embryo transfer. I guess we talked about it but we start monitoring the normal cycle and we start to do ultrasounds on day seven or eight to measure the thickness of endometrium and to measure the size of the follicle that it’s actually producing the estrogens (that will get our endometrium thick) and by doing a couple of ultrasound, we can see when it the follicle it’s about to break or the patient is about to ovulate. At this point, you have two different paths or ways you can do a fully natural cycle in which you measure LH and progesterone to see when the patient is ovulating by herself or when you have a really good (like 17 – 20 millimeters follicles) you do a trigger and you actually produce the ovulation and then program the progesterone for the embryo transfer.
Usually, we don’t believe that there are special foods or maybe physical activity or maybe something else because we doctors believe mostly in medications. So in practice, first of all, we exclude thin endometrium, we exclude chronic endometritis, adhesions we prescribe estrogens, and we think about granulocyte colony-stimulating factors on growth hormone.
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