I was 39 when we decided to try a second time to have a child.  My first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, and recovery was difficult until I started seeing Dr. Zhou.  After my first acupuncture treatment and about three days into drinking the Chinese herbs she prescribed, I was back to my energetic, healthy self.  We decided to wait three months before trying to conceive in order to get the full benefit of the herbs and acupuncture, so I was 40 when we tried again.  That fourth month, I got pregnant, and it was a bit of a surprise, because I wasn’t the best patient.  I rarely missed getting acupuncture every week, but I didn’t always drink my prescribed herbs and would frequently forget to chart my basal body temperature.  From the beginning, this pregnancy was completely different.  I had typical symptoms, but remained very healthy.  My blood pressure was always normal, glucose test was normal, and though I did have some morning sickness during the first trimester, it was minimized because I continued to receive acupuncture treatments.  I was most ill when I had to skip my weekly appointment one week.  You do a lot more sonograms when you’re of “advanced maternal age”, so I did all the sonograms to identify the risk of Down Syndrome, etc.  Results came back normal, and by all accounts from my OB/GYN and specialists she sent me to, I’m having a very healthy baby boy in August who I suspect will be a great soccer player one day.