Making a baby isn’t always easy—lots of factors can impact both your fertility and your partner’s. And fertility treatments, while sometimes necessary, can be both incredibly taxing and seriously expensive.
Since so many women deal with fertility issues (and because there are so many things that can impact someone's ferility), it makes sense that there is so much chatter about the over-the-counter PregPrep kit, which contains supplements that promote conception. It costs $29.95 and has been around for a few years, but it became available at CVS this month and was featured on Good Morning America this morning, prompting a whole new wave of discussion.
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The PregPrep kit comes with two products: FertilPrep, which includes N-acetyl CysteinePregPrep (a mucolytic—more on that below) and a blend of natural derivatives; and VitaPrep, which includes folic acid, vitamin D, and vitamin B-12.
Lara Oboler, M.D., a cardiologist in New York City and one of the cofounders of PregPrep, writes on the company’s website that she was trying to get pregnant when she “stumbled across the idea that mucolytics (generally used to break up chest congestion that develops in respiratory illness) [could] also thin cervical mucus. By making the cervical mucus less ‘sticky,’ mucolytics allow the sperm to swim more easily to the egg.” Oboler writes that she took a mucolytic for the five days leading up to ovulation, and—lo and behold—she soon found out she had a baby on board.
What Oboler is describing—taking cough syrup to thin cervical mucus—is not a new concept for ob-gyns, says Lauren F. Streicher, M.D., a clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and author of Sex Rx: Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever. PregPrep is simply a nicely packaged product specifically meant for fertility.
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Streicher says the idea is solid, but it’s also important to remember that PregPrep is not a miracle supplement. Lots of things impact a woman’s fertility. “The problem is, from my point of view, [that cervical mucus is] only one factor,” says Streicher.
PregPrep’s website recommends seeing your ob-gyn if you haven’t gotten pregnant after six months of actively trying—but Streicher doesn’t think you should necessarily wait that long. “If you have someone who’s not ovulating or there’s no sperm, they could sit there and waste six months and a lot of money over a problem they don’t have,” she says. So while Streicher says there’s no downside to using PregPrep, if you’re not conceiving, she says you should consider getting a simple evaluation after three or four months.
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