“Hypnosis helped me overcome infertility and get pregnant”

Around 3 p.m. every day, the sun shines through our kitchen window in such a way that it reflects a small rainbow on the wall. It’s really pretty and it’s also a daily reminder for me of how lucky I am to have my baby Dion.

Dion is our rainbow baby, the one who completed our family and came to our home after three miscarriages in eight months and a journey of infertility that I thought might shatter me.

My husband and I always knew we wanted two kids. For us, it was the perfect number, a complete family, our bubble of happiness. But our trip to her was not so scenic.

We conceived our first baby, Beau, now 4, through IVF and throughout this pregnancy I suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum (acute morning sickness) which was exhausting and debilitating. But, having Beau was wonderful and the desire to have another baby and give him a sibling remained strong.

I could never have imagined how difficult it would be to have the second baby we dreamed of. Beau had been conceived through an IVF cycle and I thought having another baby would be just as smooth.

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Lucky fourth time

We booked our embryo transfer for our second child and I felt relaxed, calm and confident that we would soon be celebrating a double line on a pregnancy test.

However, this was not to be the case and I had an early miscarriage at six weeks. There was no clear reason why I had miscarried which was confusing and it left me a little unsure as to whether we were going to conceive again but I was resolved we still had wanted to have two children, I wanted to give Beau a brother and I wanted to complete our family.

Following another, second miscarriage, I had moments of doubt and panic but we tried again, full of hope. It wasn’t until our third miscarriage that I started to sink into a darker place.

We were diagnosed with secondary infertility and no one could give us definitive answers or explanations – a reason – nor could they tell if we could get pregnant again.

In the weeks that followed, my mind raced with questions: How did I get here? Can I Fix My Infertility? How to move forward? What is the most important goal or life lesson in all of this?

I started researching different types of alternative therapies with the goal of finding someone who could help me.

I had the impression that we had run out of traditional medicine and that it had nothing more to offer us. Our doctor’s advice was to keep trying before I was placed in the “geriatric category”. At 34, it was just a year away for me and although I knew there were women who had babies later, it scared me.

I felt hopeless, drained, fragile, helpless. I was done trying to figure out why this was happening and who was to blame, I wanted to give up, accept defeat.

Discover hypnotherapy for fertility

It was then that I discovered RTT (Rapid Transformational Therapy) via a podcast with its creator Marisa Peer.

She spoke about secondary infertility and the depth of limiting beliefs that could prevent her from conceiving – I felt like she was speaking directly to me. A ray of hope returned and I set out to learn as much as possible about RTT. When I found out that this was therapy conducted under hypnosis, so that you could access your subconscious and identify the root cause of your problems, I was sold!

I found an RTT therapist and made an appointment for the following week. During my first session, I witnessed a scene from my childhood where I had created the belief that “two children were too hard”. This simple belief had been repeated in the background all my life without my knowledge. We then worked to disarm this specific belief in order to open the door to my second baby.

There was an almost instant change in me and everything seemed so much clearer. I finally felt like I had my answer.

Six weeks later, we transferred our fourth embryo, I got pregnant, and after giving birth, Dion was born.

Dion is now 10 months old and absolutely perfect. Having it inspired me to help other women like me. I quit my job as a teacher and trained to become RTT fertility therapist. I hope I can help as many women as possible to maximize their chances of conceiving.

Before discovering RTT, I felt that all of our hopes for a second baby were based on luck and traditional medicine. It gave me back my power. Now we’ve completed our family with a Rainbow Baby who has given our lives more color than we ever could have dreamed of – I’m so glad I didn’t give up.