Mom says she used lunaception practices to help her get pregnant: Im going to do this my way

Gabi Metz did exactly what every woman does when she’s preparing for a family.She stopped taking her birth control and waited for her period to return.Only it didn’t. That’s when she looked to the moon.  “If the moon can control oceans, why can’t it affect my body?” she told Kidspot.Concerned about the absence of her period, Gabi visited her doctor, who referred her to an endocrinologist for further investigation.“She squeezed my boob and milk came out, which was bizarre because I’d never had a baby.

I was lactating anyway,” she revealed.Gabi was diagnosed with a prolactinoma before trying to conceive her first son.A benign tumour on her pituitary gland triggered an overproduction of prolactin, impacting her entire hormonal system.It meant her periods stopped altogether, with practitioners telling her pregnancy dreams depended on one thing.

Medicine.“She just said to me, ‘Look, the only way that you’re going to fall pregnant and get your period back is if you take this medication,’” she said.For her first pregnancy, she listened to their advice, only to experience adverse effects. “It made me feel so horrible the first time around.It made me drowsy,” she explained. So when it came to planning baby number two, taking medication was out of the question. “Watch me.

Just watch me, girl.I’m going to do this my way,” she said. She stumbled upon a blog post that changed everything. “This blog article basically said this: if you want to regulate your period, if you want to get your period, you need to do something called lunception,” she explained. “It sounded crazy, but I thought I’d try anything!” The method might raise eyebrows. “You basically sleep in absolute darkness… and then for two nights of the month, you sleep with the curtains wide,” she details. “You can start to sync your cycle with the moon.” She removed artificial light and took supplements for the hormonal imbalance caused by ...