I was open minded about the effect of TCM as I had read articles (in medical journals) stating that TCM can help with sub-fertility.

We’ve been married for 16 years, had been trying to conceive for eight years before deciding to have TCM treatment with Dr. Zhao in preparation for, and during my IVF treatment.  The first two cycles failed as I had tremendous stress, accidentally broke my arm and also developed severe cystitis during the treatment.

However I became pregnant on my third attempt (from a frozen cycle) with twins. Sadly I miscarried one at seven weeks and the other embryo was in the fallopian tube and I had to have an emergency operation for a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and had the right fallopian tube removed. I was very ill and my menstrual cycle was very irregular and I felt extremely low physically and mentally so I went back to see Dr Zhao for further treatment.

She managed to regulate my cycle very quickly and then as I waited to start another IVF cycle I found I was pregnant through TCM alone with only one tube! I was amazed and am eternally grateful to Dr Zhao! We had a beautiful, perfect healthy girl.

When we wanted to try for a sibling for our daughter, we decided to give the embryos we had frozen from our previous cycles a chance and I became pregnant on the first try with Dr Zhao’s expertise.

We are now age 41, and have two beautiful girls! We would have been happy to try using TCM alone again, however as the embryos had already been created we felt we should give them a chance of life.

I would absolutely recommend the treatment. My menstrual cycle went from being completely erratic to a 28-day cycle. Most importantly it works. I have two amazing examples of Dr Zhao’s expertise.

(Kate Harrison 2009)