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Mother's pride: Julie tried for a baby for fiveyears and finally succeeded... by giving up
bread
Jul ie Cummings, 37, met her husband in 2004 whi le in the mil itary
Was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome a year later
Couple were about to try IVF and visited a nutritionist
She diagnosed an infection exacerbated by foods containing yeast
After two months of eating no bread Jul ie was pregnantGave bi rth to daughter Maisie who is now two years old
By Larisa Brown
PUBLISHED: 23:53 GMT, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 23:57 GMT, 4 October 2013
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After five years of trying for a baby, Julie Cummings was beginning to wonder if it would ever happen.
She had taken fertility drugs for two years, to no avail. Eventually, she and her husband David decided toresort to IVF.
But weeks before the treatment was due to begin, Mrs Cummings became pregnant – after giving up bread.
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Julie Cummings was told IVF was her only chance of conceiving a child following five
years of trying with no success
The result was the couple’s daughter Maisie, now two, who was born two weeks late in January 2011 after ahealthy pregnancy.
Mrs Cummings, a 37-year-old engineer, stopped eating foods containing high levels of yeast on the adviceof a nutritionist, who she went to see because she wanted to adopt a healthier lifestyle before starting IVF.
She explained: ‘I cut out potatoes, bread, garlic bread, toast from my diet, and mainly ate just vegetablesand fruit. I also took some health supplements.
‘Two months later – that was the only change I had made for five and a half years – and I was pregnant.‘Now we are just very happy, especially after everything we went through, that Maisie’s come into our life.’
She and David, 50, met in Germany in 2004, when they were both in the military, and started trying for ababy a year later.
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After nine months with no luck, Mrs Cummings went to see an army medic and was eventually diagnosedwith polycystic ovary syndrome, which stops eggs being released.
Mrs Cummings, from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, said: ‘They said I’d need extra help to get pregnant andthat it wouldn’t go away on its own.
‘They recommended I go to a fertility clinic in Hertfordshire, where I started on a course of treatment.’
Julie was pregnant with her daughter Maisie within two months and she was born in 2011after a healthy pregnancy
Mrs Cummings took clomid, a fertility drug used to help re-balance the body’s hormones to increase thechance of ovulation, for more than two years – without success.
Doctors told her the next step would be IVF. But when she visited Caroline Sproule, a nutrition and fertilityconsultant at Bromsgrove Allergy and Nutrition Centre, she was told she was suffering from an infectioncaused by an overgrowth of a fungus called Candida albicans.
This is encouraged by eating foods that contain yeast, such as bread. One of its side effects is menstrualproblems, including the stopping of periods altogether, which in turn prevents pregnancy.
In March 2010, Mrs Cummings had her first period in six months and by April the same year she waspregnant.
She added: ‘I didn’t really go to the centre to get pregnant, just to stand me in good stead for IVF butthankfully we didn’t have to go down that route.
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‘It just shows what years of abuse – drinking too much and eating the wrong things – can do to your body.’
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AM, London, United Kingdom, 6 minutes ago
Her daughter looks like she was born Chinese then turned into a white girl.
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yeahiknow987, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 19 minutes ago
Headline should read: "Woman trying to get pregnant draws improbable conclusion from coincidence..."
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Thirty something mum, Bucks, 23 minutes ago
What a beautiful baby photo - and the baby blanket is lovely - well done grandma?
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Ana, Dublin, 40 minutes ago
Interesting is the fact in the Bible is written to eat bread, but without yeast. Coincidence?
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kdu, London, United Kingdom, 1 hour ago
PCOS is one of the biggest causes of infertility in the UK. The best way to control PCOS is diet. Wheat and sugar are big partsin affecting PCOS so if she gave up bread this is more likely why she ended up pregnant.
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DrMallard, West Palm Beach FL USA, 1 hour ago
Maybe she stopped eating bread and started doing something else?
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Anny, Bedford, United Kingdom, 1 hour ago
It happens to many couples without them dropping anything! A friend of a friend tried for a baby for 20 years,had IVF etc and fellpregnant naturally at 42,just like that.Let this woman repeat it now....it is a coincidence what happened.
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Truth Speaker, East Midlands, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
More natalist whaffle from the DM. Who cares?????
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Emz2013, London, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
I'm really happy for her but I seriously doubt that bread was the reason she didn't conceive. I tried for my second for 6 years andas soon as I stopped obsessing I fell pregnant - at a time when we'd written off having a second child and disposed of all our baby items! Two very close friends of mine don't drink or smoke and really watch what they eat - they have both beenunsuccessful in having children, to the bewilderment of doctors they have seen.
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welshleo, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 1 hour ago
Perhaps you should read 'Wheat Belly' by Dr. William Davis. Wheat can cause infertility amongst a host of other ailments. Readthe article about it only in last week's DM.
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me67, Albert, France, 2 hours ago
11 years ago after 8 years of trying for a child I was sort nutritional advice and was told I had an intolerance to yeast and diaryproducts. I now have a beautiful 10 year old daughter, nobody should dismiss what food can do to your body.
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