HPV and Pregnancy: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Baby

If you tested positive for high-risk HPV virus right when you were about to try getting pregnant, or perhaps you're already pregnant and then found out that you're testing positive for high-risk HPV virus, and now you have a million and one questions and worries racing through your mind trying to figure out what you're gonna do, then I get it, and I'm glad you found this video. I'm gonna be reviewing the most common questions and concerns that women ask me related to HPV and pregnancy. And if I haven't met you before, I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, naturopathic doctor, midwife, and women's health expert. I've been in practice for over 25 years and have helped thousands of women to clear HPV virus to negative and prevent it from coming back again, including during pregnancy. So I want to be able to share this information with you so that you know exactly what your options are and what you can do to help protect yourself and your baby and your future family from being affected by high-risk HPV virus. So the 3 most common questions that women ask me are, will HPV affect my ability to get pregnant? And number 2, is it safe for me to try to have a baby when I'm testing positive for HPV? And number 3 is, could the HPV have a negative effect on my baby? So let's go through these together. Now, in terms of the question of will HPV affect your ability to get pregnant, what I would say is not necessarily, because high-risk HPV virus does not have an impact on your ovaries or your ability to conceive a pregnancy. That's why some women find out they're pregnant, and then find out that they have high-risk HPV virus. So in that way, it's not going to impact your ability to get pregnant. One thing that could happen is because high-risk HPV virus can cause abnormal cells on your cervix, if those abnormal cells progress to more severe, what's referred to as CIN 2 or 3 or beyond, closer to cancer cells, then your doctor may recommend a LEEP procedure or a conization or other procedure to remove the cells and/or part of your cervix. And when women undergo especially repeat LEEP procedures or conization, there's a potential for damage to your cervix, which can make it harder for your body to maintain a pregnancy, or it can make a miscarriage more likely. However, there are still procedures that your gynecologist can perform to help you to maintain a pregnancy even after having a conization. So it really depends on the severity of the abnormal cells and the treatment that you need to have to remove those abnormal cells. And, and so I would definitely recommend that you talk to your gynecologist and find out what they're seeing as your options for being able to have a pregnancy and maintain a pregnancy after being treated for abnormal cells caused by high-risk HPV virus. Now, my preference and recommendation is if you've just found out that you're testing positive for high-risk HPV and maybe you have low-risk cells, or this is the first time you're testing positive for high-risk cells or more severe cells like CIN1, CIN2, CIN3, then I recommend contacting me in my office and following my Dr. Doni Wilson's HPV protocol. Because with this protocol, I've been able to help women to clear high-risk HPV virus to negative and also to help support your body to heal your cervix. So if the cells are low-grade like CIN1, we can take steps to support your body to heal those cells and, and prevent it from progressing to more severe abnormal cells. And if you have CIN 2 or 3, there's an alternative to LEAP procedure called escharotic treatments. And escharotic treatments is using an enzyme and nutrient and herbal-based traditional approach to help slough off the abnormal cells without damaging the cervix. And escharotic treatments is something that I was trained in over 25 years ago and have performed thousands of them very successfully to help women to remove those CIN 2 and 3 cells without causing damage to the cervix so that you can reverse the abnormal cells and get your cervix healed and back to healthy so that you can go on to have a pregnancy without concern about damage to your cervix. You want to make sure that you're working with a practitioner who's very well trained in how to perform sclerotic treatments. And so if you are looking for someone to help you, then I recommend reaching out to my office because this is something that I can help refer you and/or I can help you be able to access sclerotic treatments from wherever you are in the world. So if you're wondering about how you can avoid a LEEP procedure and be able to address CIN 2, 3 naturally, then please reach out to my office either by email or phone, and we can talk more about whether you're a good candidate for escharotic treatments. If, however, the cells are more advanced to carcinoma in situ or carcinoma, then you're gonna need to meet with an oncologist along with your gynecologist to address the abnormal cells, and even still, I've seen many women go on to have a healthy pregnancy after treating even high-grade abnormal cells caused by HPV. So most cases, you will still be able to have a pregnancy. Only if they— it's necessary for you to have a hysterectomy, then it's going to be more likely that the HPV could impact your ability to have a pregnancy. Now, if— is HPV gonna have— is it okay to try to have a pregnancy even when you're testing positive? This is a great question because if you don't have abnormal cells, not— and maybe you're just testing positive for HPV, it's not considered necessary to avoid pregnancy. Like, your gynecologist is not going to tell you to avoid pregnancy if you're testing positive for HPV. So it's okay to get pregnant, and many women go through pregnancy while testing positive for high-risk HPV. It's just that there's this unknown factor, so throughout the pregnancy, there's a concern about whether the virus could cause a progression of abnormal cells, right? Because you have at least 9 months during pregnancy and postpartum, and some more time where we're gonna be supporting you to have a pregnancy and have the baby and not be able to take as much action to protect you from HPV during that time. Now, I have seen that now gynecologists and specialists are able to even perform a colposcopy and in some cases a conization or partial conization even during pregnancy without damaging the pregnancy. So know that it's even possible. If you're already pregnant and have abnormal cells, definitely talk to your doctor and a specialist to see what are the options to address HPV and abnormal cells even during pregnancy, because that's now become possible. The, the hope is, however, that we're able to prevent a progression of abnormal cells during pregnancy, and then you'll repeat your Pap smear and HPV test about 6 weeks after the baby's born to see if it's still present and if the abnormal cells have progressed, and then you could address the abnormal cells after the pregnancy.

What if you tested positive for high-risk HPV virus and you don't want to wait around and see if it's going to go away on its own? For many women, high-risk HPV can linger for years, taking a toll on their health and their peace of mind. I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, HPV expert, and I've been helping women for over 24 years to clear HPV to negative. I created the HPV Kickstart program as a simple, effective way to support your body's natural ability to clear HPV. This is not about waiting and Hoping this is about taking action. In fact, thousands of women have regained control of their health by following my protocol, and you can too. You deserve to take back control of your health.

Join us today. Now, what I see in my practice is many times women will contact me when they already found out they're pregnant and testing positive for HPV, and then I can guide you to support your body in safe and effective ways to even clear high-risk HPV during pregnancy, because there are actually safe and effective ways that we can do that. Now, you're not going to hear that from your standard gynecology office, and most of my colleagues are not comfortable with addressing HPV during pregnancy. However, because I'm a naturopathic doctor and midwife, I do feel comfortable with helping you to navigate ways that you can support your immune system even during pregnancy because we can use mind-body techniques, we can use dietary changes, and we can even use certain nutrients and herbs that have been shown to be safe during pregnancy to support your immune system, including probiotics that can help your body protect you from HPV during pregnancy., and I've seen case after case where women have not only been able to prevent a progression of abnormal cells during pregnancy, but they've come out at the other end of the pregnancy and not only have a healthy baby, but also test negative for HPV and negative for abnormal cells because they used my protocol during pregnancy. And so if that's your situation and you would like help, then I recommend that you get in contact with my office and set up as soon as possible a one-on-one appointment with me where— so that I can guide you every step of the way to get the right blood work so we can get the right information and support you to clear HPV during pregnancy. And at the same time, we'll be supporting you to have a healthy pregnancy for you and your baby. So it can be a win-win all around by addressing HPV during pregnancy. And for those of you who've wondered, can HPV affect the baby? What I want to reassure you with is that in most cases, HPV does not affect the baby. Now, there's very rare scenarios where HPV can be passed on to the baby during a vaginal birth. However, most times, the baby's immune system is able to clear the virus and protect them from it. So it's not considered as contraindication to have a vaginal birth while testing positive for HPV. So your doctor won't have you avoid a vaginal birth, although again, from my perspective, I'd rather support you to clear HPV so that your baby's not getting exposed to it during birth. But I want you to, want you to be reassured that it's not considered to be a high enough risk to avoid a vaginal birth when testing positive for high-risk HPV virus. And there's also many ways that we can support your baby's immune system even after birth to help protect them from HPV virus as well. You see, the human immune system can protect us from viruses like high-risk HPV as long as we're supporting it, but it's when we have nutrient deficiencies or microbiome imbalances or gut health issues or vaginal health issues or hormone imbalances and so on, these things make us more susceptible to high-risk HPV virus both as a woman and as a baby, and that's what then allows the virus to persist and potentially cause abnormal cells. So if I can help you to, to support your immune system, your microbiome, your nutrient levels, your hormone levels, then we're going to be able to help your body to clear high-risk HPV and prevent it from causing abnormal cells. Now, one of the amazing things that I find is that when women contact me and it's before they get pregnant, right, so they're thinking, hey, I would like to have a pregnancy in the next 6 months or a year or the next 2 or 3 years, and then you find out they're testing positive for high-risk HPV, and you're like, oh my gosh, I— how could this virus be coming up right now? This is right when I've been waiting my whole life to get to this point where I can have a pregnancy. What I can tell you is that the women who follow my HPV protocol, they end up improving their fertility. Because as we walk through the process of addressing the 8 most common reasons why you're susceptible to HPV virus in the first place, we end up increasing your fertility. So women who go through this step-by-step protocol to, again, address their nutrient levels, their blood sugar levels, their hormone levels, their microbiome, their vaginal health, they end up then being able to clear HPV heal their cervix and improve their fertility. And so oftentimes I find that women are much more likely to get pregnant. Even women over 40 years old have been able to clear HPV and, and be able to get pregnant naturally when they thought they couldn't, just because we've addressed the underlying factors that were both making you susceptible to HPV and preventing you from getting pregnant in the first place. And so women end up going through my protocol, testing negative for HPV and negative for abnormal cells, and then positive for a pregnancy. And then I help them to prevent a miscarriage so that they can continue that pregnancy, and I can support them alongside their prenatal care to have a healthy pregnancy, a healthy baby, and continue on throughout their life to prevent HPV from ever becoming an issue ever again. So I'm hoping this is reassuring you and helping you to know that there's so much you can do, even if your doctor's saying all you can do is wait and see if abnormal cells happen, and all you can do is have a procedure, and it's making you so worried sick. What if HPV could cause damage to your cervix, right? Because if you're needing to have a procedure to remove abnormal cells, let's say you need to have a LEEP procedure or multiple LEEP procedures, or if you need to have a conization to remove part of your cervix or something more than that, then that could impact your ability to maintain a pregnancy, right? If you're— if there's damage to your cervix, it could increase your risk of a miscarriage. And so that's what we want to try to avoid. And that's why a lot of times women will reach out to me and say, hey, I really want to try to avoid a LEEP or a conization. What else can I do? So if that's the case, I welcome you to contact me and we can talk more about if your case is a good match for my protocol and how I can support you and how we can protect your cervix, not only protect it from HPV but protect it from needing to have procedures to remove abnormal cells so that you can have that healthy pregnancy that you've been hoping for. So I hope this has been helpful for you to understand better how HPV relates to pregnancy and the things you can do to help protect yourself. And please know that really this is a possibility. There's so many options, right? I can help you to whether you're planning to get pregnant and we want to help clear HPV before you try to get pregnant, and/or if you're already pregnant, then I can help you to help your body clear HPV even during pregnancy if needed. And then if you have severely abnormal cells like CIN 2-3, I could potentially help you to avoid a LEEP procedure by doing escharotic treatments We don't do escherichia treatments during pregnancy, so those would be done before you try to conceive or after you have the baby if necessary. But many times we're able to reverse the HPV and the abnormal cells before it becomes CIN 2/3, and if not, then we can address it either way. So I hope this helps you to feel more comfortable about the options. And to feel free to reach out to me and my office so that I can give you more of a sense. And to keep in mind that I help women from around the world in this situation, so you don't necessarily have to come see me in person. These are things that I can help you with whether— wherever you're located. If you're in the United States or if you're in Canada or if you're in Australia or the UK, wherever you're located, I've been able to help women to navigate HPV before and during and after pregnancy. So I look forward to connecting with you soon and helping you to navigate HPV and pregnancy successfully. Thanks for joining me here, and if you haven't already, I welcome you to subscribe to this How Humans Heal podcast so that you don't miss the next episode. I'll see you soon.

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