Are you worried about how high-risk HPV could be affecting your fertility and future pregnancy? Maybe these are some of the questions you have: 

• Is it OK to get pregnant when I’m testing positive for HPV? 
• Is it OK to get pregnant if I have abnormal cells on my Pap smear result? 
• What if I’m already pregnant and then I find out that I have HPV and abnormal cells? 
• What can I do or take during pregnancy and even during breastfeeding to protect myself from high-risk HPV and HPV-related cancer that is safe for my baby? 
• Another common question is: Is it possible to pass the high-risk HPV to my baby either during pregnancy or after?

I know how worried you must feel. As a woman, a mom, a grandmother, and a practitioner – I understand what you’re going through. 

And as a naturopathic doctor, midwife, and women’s health expert with over 25 years of experience, I want to share with you everything you need to know about high-risk HPV and how to protect yourself from HPV-related cancer, and support your fertility and pregnancy at the same time.

I want to help you answer all of these common questions so you know what you can do to protect yourself and your baby.

Understanding HPV and Abnormal Cells

It can be so scary when you go to the doctor’s office and find out you have high risk HPV. They do a pap smear and HPV test, and then when you get the test results back, they may tell you that you need to do a colposcopy (biopsy).

The results may show you have low-grade cells called CIN-1 or higher grade cells, such as CIN-2 or CIN-3. If it’s lower grade – which could be high-risk HPV with no abnormal cells, or with ASCUS, or CIN-1 – your doctor is likely to say “wait and come back” in a few months.

You might be thinking, “Wait a minute, I’m wanting to get pregnant, I don’t really want to wait and see if this becomes an issue. I would rather move forward with my fertility plans.” Or maybe you feel like, “I don’t want to just wait and see if it becomes cancer. I would rather protect my cervix and protect my body. I don’t want it to get worse and become CIN-2 or CIN-3 and then need a procedure.”

Perhaps some of you have CIN-2 or CIN-3, and you’re feeling like, “Oh my gosh, I’m really worried about having a procedure that might damage my cervix and affect a future pregnancy.” Or maybe some of you have already had procedures, either LEEP procedures or conization procedures, to remove abnormal cells that may impact your ability to carry a pregnancy.

These are all different scenarios that I hear about, and I’m happy to connect with each of you about your individual story. I want you to know that there is so much I can do to help you. 

HPV and Fertility: My Experience and Specialization in Helping Women

I have helped women in every one of these situations (from low grade to high grade dysplasia) to successfully get HPV to negative, heal their cervix, and support them to get pregnant, prevent a miscarriage, have a healthy baby, and to be able to prevent HPV from coming back again.

I want you to know what’s possible. Women I’ve worked with over the past 25 years have proven that it’s possible, and they have encouraged me to share it with others to say this is possible for you too. 

I know you’re not going to hear that it’s possible to clear HPV in the standard doctor’s office. Don’t be surprised that your gynecologist is not trained in how to prevent HPV from causing cancer. Oftentimes naturopathic doctors aren’t trained in this approach either. 

The approach I’m sharing with you here is a protocol that I have developed over the past two decades. As a midwife, herbalist, and nutritionist, I review research and am trained in the safe and effective use of diet, nutrients and herbs during pre-conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding. 

I now specialize in helping you learn how to heal your body, clear HPV, and prepare you for a healthy pregnancy, all at the same time.  I hope this information already gives you some hope. Please know you can always reach out to me. You can go right to my website doctordoni.com or the HPV section of my website clearhpvnow.com. You can email us, call us, set up one-on-one sessions with me, and/or work with me in an online program. I can guide you every step of the way.

HPV and Pregnancy Planning

When you find out that you’re testing positive for high-risk HPV and perhaps abnormal cells before you get pregnant, and you’re wondering “can I get pregnant?”

The answer to that question is that it’s not a standard medical recommendation that you should not get pregnant.

The one consideration is if you have more severely abnormal cells, like CIN-2 or CIN-3, I would say it’s a good idea to address the CIN-2 or CIN-3 abnormal cells before getting pregnant if possible. 

Think about it: once you start into pregnancy, which is 9 to 10 months, we’re not going to be able to do a procedure to remove abnormal cells while you’re pregnant. If you know you have CIN-2 or CIN-3 or abnormal cells, it would be better to address them before getting pregnant if possible because you don’t want them to get worse during pregnancy.

Sometimes we don’t find out that you have abnormal cells until you are already pregnant, in which case, in my practice, we go into action to prevent those cells from getting worse during pregnancy. I’ve helped women to successfully do that as well.

Whatever your situation is, we can help. If possible and there are abnormal cells, let’s address them before you get pregnant. If you’re already pregnant, then let’s prevent them from progressing so they’re not worse by the time you have your baby. Our goal is for you to have cleared HPV by the time your baby arrives.

If you are not yet pregnant, I recommend taking action to support your body to clear HPV now, before getting pregnant, especially because the protocol I’ll guide you through will support fertility as well. 

Managing HPV During Pregnancy

What can I do if I’m already pregnant? 

I worked with a woman in the past year who was in that exact situation. 

She called me right when she found out that she tested positive for high-risk HPV and mildly abnormal cells (CIN-1). Within a few days, she found out that she was pregnant, so she was already pregnant and dealing with CIN-1 at the same time.

What we did is immediately begin my miscarriage prevention protocol, which I’ve developed over the years. It involves nutrients and self-care, as well as making sure you have adequate progesterone and adequate folate to prevent a miscarriage. 

And then as we continue into the pregnancy, we start to introduce nutrients and homeopathic remedies that are safe during pregnancy, as well as diet changes and self-care that is supportive during pregnancy.

She continued to follow the protocol through her pregnancy, and when she had her baby, she went in for a follow-up Pap smear and HPV test. The abnormal cells had completely gone away, and the HPV went to negative. It ended up being such a beautiful year-long process of pregnancy and delivery while at the same time clearing HPV to negative.

I want you to know that’s a possible scenario. You’ll have aprenatal care provider who’s helping you during pregnancy, and then I work alongside to help support you to prevent a miscarriage, and to prevent HPV from causing cancer.

Treatment Options for Abnormal Cells

If you do have CIN-2 or CIN-3 and it’s before you get pregnant, your doctor is likely to tell you about getting a LEEP (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure) or what some countries call LLETZ procedure, or sometimes they might talk about a conization or cold knife biopsy.

I want you to know there’s also a treatment called Escharotic Treatments, which I offer through my clinic and have for 25 years, and find them to be very successful. It’s important to make sure it’s a good fit for you. If you’re really wanting to avoid having a procedure on your cervix and you’d rather use an herbal-nutrient approach that doesn’t cause damage or scarring to the cervix, you can reach out to my office. 

We can talk through how I can support you to do the Escharotic Treatments. I help women from around the world to do this, so no matter where you’re listening from, if you feel strongly about avoiding a medical procedure and being able to use this herbal-nutrient treatment instead, just reach out to me.

If you have had a LEEP or cone biopsy, the concern is that, especially if you need to have repeat procedures, it can cause scar tissue on the cervix. With scar tissue and/or if part of the cervix was removed, it can be hard to maintain a pregnancy, meaning it’s harder for the cervix to stay closed. If the cervix is not staying closed, it’s harder to maintain the pregnancy in the uterus.

I want you to know that your practitioner – your doctor or your midwife – will have access to a procedure called a Cerclage, which is a way to hold the cervix closed during pregnancy to prevent a miscarriage. If you are wanting a pregnancy and you have had procedures, definitely talk to your practitioner about a Cerclage to help prevent a miscarriage because of the cervix needing help to stay closed.

Can HPV Be Passed to Your Baby?

In terms of the question of whether you can pass HPV to your baby, I want you to know that the likelihood is very low. 

When we look into research studies evaluating this, there is a small possibility of HPV being passed to the baby during a vaginal birth. The risk is way less with a cesarean because, just imagine, it’s when the baby comes through the vagina, and the vagina is where the high-risk HPV is located, that there’s a very slight possibility of the baby being exposed to high-risk HPV.

In most cases, the baby’s immune system is able to clear the virus right away, and it never becomes an issue. That’s why your doctor may not even mention it, and doctors don’t try to avoid a vaginal birth in order to avoid exposure to HPV.

This is in contrast to the herpes virus, in which exposure to the baby is more of an issue. Your doctor will make sure you are on a treatment for herpes or cover any herpes outbreaks because there’s a concern about the baby being exposed to herpes during a vaginal delivery.

My whole focus is on helping women to clear HPV to negative. If you’re worried about your baby being exposed during the delivery, then the best thing is to follow my protocol to clear HPV either before pregnancy or during pregnancy so the virus is gone and negative by the time you deliver your baby.

It’s not possible to pass HPV to your baby while the baby’s in your uterus, and it’s not possible to pass HPV to your baby through breastfeeding or by sleeping next to your baby. That’s not going to be a way to transmit HPV to your baby. 

I don’t want you to be worried if you already have your baby – you’re not going to pass it through breast milk, by sleeping with, holding, or hugging your baby. That’s not how high-risk HPV is transmitted. It’s transmitted through contact in the vagina, in the genital area.

The Healing Process: Your Cervix Can Heal

Let’s talk more about what it looks like to help protect yourself during fertility planning, before you get pregnant, during pregnancy, and during breastfeeding. What are the solutions? What are the things you can turn to to protect yourself and get HPV negative?

Even if you have abnormal cells and you have them removed, or if you have low-grade cells, I can definitely help you. Your cervix can heal. The amazing thing is, the cervix, just like you grow new skin on your body all the time, can grow new cells on your cervix. 

As we get the virus load to drop, your body can slough off abnormal cells, grow new healthy cells, and completely heal your cervix. Your cervix can heal – I see it all the time.

If you’re before pregnancy, we can even use vaginal suppositories to help with that. The vaginal suppositories that I’ve developed include nutrients and herbs that support the immune system, are anti-inflammatory, support the vaginal microbiome, and are directly antiviral. (Note: we don’t use herbal/nutrient suppositories during pregnancy.)

When we use these suppositories vaginally, we can help drop the viral load and help improve the health of your vagina. In this way, your microbiome and your immune system can protect you from HPV and can help your cervix heal.

Supporting Fertility While Clearing HPV

At the same time, while you’re healing your vagina and cervix from HPV, you’re also improving fertility. 

It’s known that if the vaginal environment is disrupted, if the microbiome is disrupted, and when there is inflammation, it can negatively affect fertility. 

When we use vaginal suppositories to address the vaginal environment – to reestablish a healthy microbiome and to decrease inflammation – it also supports your ability to get pregnant.

My protocol then guides you to address your overall health, which also supports fertility.

I refer to it as a ladder of intervention. We start with self-care: what can we do to help you take better care of yourself? Then we go into diet changes: how can we help you feed yourself better? 

Most often, your practitioner is not likely to mention how self-care or diet are related to HPV, but I can tell you that it’s absolutely related.

This is such an opportunity to improve how you’re taking care of yourself, how you’re feeding yourself. Are you getting enough sleep? Are you getting enough recovery from stress? 

Recovery from stress is huge because what happens is, as we’re exposed to stress in our daily lives, which we all have some stress from work, family, financial stress, and so on, it affects our immune system so that our immune system is not as able to protect us from HPV.

This stress and trauma can also affect our microbiome, disrupting our vaginal environment, making us more susceptible to HPV and fertility issues. Stress can also affect our hormones, which can affect our fertility. 

When you’re under a lot of stress, it basically turns off the ovaries, so you’re more likely to have menstrual-related symptoms and decreased fertility.As we address all these factors, we help improve your fertility. 

We need to help to make sure you’re getting enough rest – our bodies heal while we’re resting, we fend off viruses while we’re resting, hormones are working while we’re resting. We need to get 7½ to 9 hours of sleep every night. 

If you’re not getting good sleep, I have a lot of resources to help you get back on track. Sometimes it’s just prioritizing it, communicating with other people in our life to say, “I need to get in bed so I can get enough sleep.”

Also, if our diet is lacking in very important nutrients like iron, B vitamins, and protein, that’s going to affect our ability to get pregnant. It’s also going to affect your susceptibility to high-risk HPV virus.

We need to look at your diet and at your blood work to figure out if you’re depleted in nutrients. Then I help you to adjust your diet so that you’re getting enough protein with every meal – 20 to 30 grams of protein, whether that’s plant-based protein or animal protein. 

We also need to make sure you’re hydrated. I want to make sure you are drinking filtered water so you’re avoiding toxins and getting good hydration with water plus electrolytes. 

As we do all this, your body starts to notice, your hormones start to shift, you start to have better ovary production of estrogen and progesterone, which helps with fertility and also helps with protecting you from HPV.

We also start seeing an improvement in your digestion, and there’s a well-known connection between digestion, vaginal health, and fertility. 

We want to feed you nutrient-dense foods and avoid processed foods that are filled with pesticides, sugars, sweeteners, and other unnecessary ingredients. We want to stick to whole foods – actual fruits, vegetables, proteins. We also need to make sure you can digest it, and that your bowels are moving regularly, and get your microbiome back on track.

Getting Motivated to Make Changes

Often desiring a family and pregnancy inspires women to make these changes – because otherwise, as women, we tend to procrastinate and say, “Oh, maybe I’ll do that tomorrow, maybe I’ll do that another day.” 

But I’m telling you, when you can start today, it’s not about perfection, it’s not about being hard on yourself. 

Actually, what it’s about is learning to be more gentle and loving of yourself and saying, “I don’t have to be perfect. I just need to make changes, little by little, each day, and learn how to make sure I’m getting protein, make sure I’m getting sleep, make sure I’m getting hydration, make sure I’m getting good quality food, and avoiding toxins as best as I can.”

I’ve developed meal plans, recipes, and self-care routine planners to help you, because sometimes it’s hard to change these habits. As humans, we get into habits, and we tend to keep doing the same thing all the time. 

Sometimes we think it’s about making an extreme change. So many women will say to me, “Do I need to be fasting? Do I need to be exercising more?” We’re willing to push ourselves so hard, but sometimes we can overdo it.

If we’re fasting too long, it actually triggers our cortisol stress hormone and can turn off the ovaries and turn off the immune system. 

So it’s not about pushing ourselves too hard, because that can work against us. It’s not about being too hard on ourselves, because that can also work against us. It’s about finding that perfect sweet spot in the middle where we’re just gentle and loving toward ourselves, and yet each day noticing, “How can I take another step in the direction of taking better care of myself?”

The Human Immune System CAN Clear HPV

Your immune system has the capacity to clear HPV to negative, and your immune system has a memory. We can support your immune system to make memory cells to HPV so it can protect you from HPV going forward. 

Even if you’re exposed to the same or a different partner with HPV, your immune system will be able to protect you. Once we help your body to recover from what you’ve been through, get your immune system back up to where you need it to be, get your microbiome working for you, your hormones balanced, your stress recovery going, you will be protected from HPV.

I work with so many women who are married, in relationships, and having sex with their partner because they’re working on fertility. They’re able to get HPV to negative, heal their cervix, go from CIN-3 to a completely healthy cervix, avoid procedures, avoid cancer, and be able to have a healthy pregnancy without a miscarriage, and go on to have a healthy baby and breastfeeding, and to not have HPV come back again.

Just know that if you need help with this, I will guide you every step of the way. 

I also specialize in MTHFR and methylation issues. This is an important overlap to understand with abnormal Pap smears, fertility issues, and miscarriage risk – because they are all associated with having an MTHFR gene variation or low folate.

If you know you have an MTHFR gene variation or you have questions about methylfolate, you can find more information on my website, and I’m happy to guide you to address MTHFR so that it doesn’t negatively impact your pregnancy.

How You can Start Your HPV-FREE Journey 

I offer online group programs specifically to address high-risk HPV, and I work with patients one-on-one as well. I help women from around the world because I see that this is an issue women are facing everywhere, and I consider HPV and cervical cancer to be preventable.

You can start learning more about my approach and initial steps you can take by watching the Secret to Clear HPV Masterclass – it’s 90-minutes long and available right away. 

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From there, you might choose to join the Heal HPV Kickstart Program, for the initial steps of my protocol, including diet changes and supplements, over the next 30 days. Find the top 5 supplements I recommend in the HPV Supplement Bundle here (it is not for during pregnancy).

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Or you can begin with the comprehensive Say Goodbye to HPV Program, which is 3 months and supports you to implement my full protocol and address all 8 susceptibilities to HPV with live, group support, and access to testing and vaginal suppositories.

If you’ve been struggling, feeling fearful, or even paralyzed by fear, thinking either that healing isn’t possible or looking for a magic pill, I encourage you to stand back and consider whether that’s really what’s going to help you be successful. Connect with your real intention, which is to get HPV to negative and prevent cancer. 

Visit my website at clearhpvnow.com to see testimonials – video after video and story after story of women who have healed from HPV – to help you know that it is possible for you too.

To learn more about my approach to healing from stress and trauma using my Stress Recovery Protocol which involves optimizing cortisol and adrenaline levels to heal the adrenals, as well as neurotransmitters, using nutrients, herbs and C.A.R.E.™ – my proprietary program to support clean eating, adequate sleep, stress recovery and exercise – I encourage you to read all about it in my latest book Master Your Stress Reset Your Health.

For those needing one-on-one support, I offer consultations via Zoom or phone from anywhere in the world. I’ve worked with patients from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Europe, Dubai, Canada, throughout the United States, and more. My team can help coordinate supplement shipping worldwide, and we can work within your budget to find the right starting point.

You don’t have to figure it out on your own. My team and I are here to help guide you step by step. 

I heard from a patient today who just had an ultrasound of her baby at 12 weeks of pregnancy. Getting to 12 weeks means that she was able to prevent a miscarriage by following my miscarriage prevention protocol. And a few weeks ago, she received her pap and HPV results showing negative, after following my HPV protocol over the past 6 months. She and her partner are so happy and grateful, it is beyond words really. And it’s possible for you too.

Thank you so much for joining me for this video on helping you to clear HPV while also in the process of preparing for pregnancy, during pregnancy, and when breastfeeding. 

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