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Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Today I have part two with Dr. Natalie Crawford. She is the co-founder of for fertility, a fertility clinic here in Austin. She is board certified in OBGYN and reproductive

and endocrinology and infertility. I mess it up again.

You can even say REI. REI. I messed it up on the first one. I messed it up again. She is stacked

with accolades. She, the last episode we just did, if you have not listened, you definitely

should go listen. It was excellent. I learned so much things everyone

should know. She's the host of As a Woman podcast. She won Best Fertility Specialist in Austin.

Happy to have you. Thank you for having me. We could talk all day long, so I'm so excited.

We really could. I love, love to listen to you talk. So today we're going to focus more on

trying to conceive. Yes. So today we're going to focus more on trying to conceive.

Yes. So if someone is trying to conceive, let's say they're just, okay, I want to try to get

pregnant. Step one. What holistic things should they be doing, and for the woman, what holistic

things should she be doing right now? Okay. I love this. So before you want to get pregnant,

let's kind of go through some of them. Number one, let's say stop our birth control. So if you are

on any type of birth control or contraception, we want to stop that with enough time to get your cycle

pattern and have some awareness of your cycle to identify any issues. We're going to talk about soon the

length of time you're trying to conceive and what that means. But if your periods are not regular

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