“I had tried everything under the sun to conceive a child including acupuncture, diet changes, putting my legs up the wall after sex, IUIs, IVFs, surgeries for endometriosis, and none of it worked. Furthermore, no one could give me a really good reason why I couldn’t get pregnant. I was despondent, depressed, but desperate to have the child my husband and I had wanted for so long. By the time I arrived in Lynsi’s office, I had been trying to have a baby for 3 ½ years. In those 3 ½ years, I’d had one miscarriage from a spontaneous pregnancy and a miscarriage from an IVF. I figured I had absolutely nothing to lose by trying HypnoFertility—it felt like a last resort, but the worst that could happen was it wouldn’t work. I walked into Lynsi’s office and told her “I am doing a frozen embryo transfer in a month and I do not want you to tell me to wait!” Lynsi didn’t even blink an eye at my abrupt statement, she just said “OK—let’s work with that.” I think it was the first time in 3 ½ years that doctors, acupuncturists and therapists hadn’t dictated a timeframe to me—I already liked that. I went once a week to Lynsi prior to embryo transfer and once a week through the transfer process. I realized the pervasive message I’d received was that my body was broken and I couldn’t get pregnant. And frankly, my subconscious believed it as well. Lynsi and I worked through changing that belief and throughout the process my mantra was “Things are happening exactly the way they should.” This helped relieve the anxiety of going through assisted reproductive technologies. And sure enough, two weeks later, the doctor called with the news that I was pregnant! I was terrified of miscarriage and I saw Lynsi throughout my whole pregnancy to relieve the miscarriage anxiety. On August 4, 2010, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Francesca Marie. But our story doesn’t end there. The benefits of my work with Lynsi continued on when I discovered I was pregnant naturally with baby #2 just 6 months after Francesca was born! Something mentally had shifted in me after doing HypnoFertility ®, and I never doubted that I could get pregnant with #2. Thanks to Lynsi’s work with me, I feel hopeful and fearless in this pregnancy. And I sit here now due with a baby boy in November 2011 and feel eternally grateful for the work Lynsi and I did together. She helped change my thought patterns, my view of my body, and gave me the confidence to be an advocate in my fertility. Although the initial goal of hypnosis was to get pregnant, I found that I gained much more in terms of managing my anxiety, having new hope, and finding purpose again in my life after struggling with my fertility so long. There will never be enough good things to say about the benefits of working with Lynsi!