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Add The New York Post on Google Originally Published by: A nurse who was diagnosed with infertility is pregnant with her third baby in two years after taking weight loss jabs to boost her chances of conception.
Areli Ruiz, 35, and her husband Jose Ruiz, 34, refused to give up after being told by doctors she couldn’t conceive and she began taking Ozempic to reduce inflammation in her body.
Through her job as a nurse, she knew it was a leading cause of infertility, and according to the Cleveland Clinic, GLP-1 medication can help fertility by reducing inflammation, regulating testosterone levels, and encouraging ovulation.
After a few months, Areli, from Merced, California, was pregnant, and six months after giving birth to a daughter, she received another positive pregnancy test.
Areli is now eight months pregnant with her third child in two years, after conceiving just eight weeks after giving birth.
She has already bought more Ozempic to help her try for another baby once this one is born and is encouraging women struggling with infertility to consider taking GLP medication.
She said: “When doctors told me I was infertile, I was heartbroken.
“After I got married, I’d hoped to have a family with my husband; my whole world shattered.
“I was so blown away when I got the first positive pregnancy test.
“I thought it was the GLP that helped, so I started taking it again after I gave birth, and six months later, I was pregnant again.
“I now have a two-year-old, a nine-month-old, and I’m eight months pregnant.
“My kids are my GLP miracle babies.
“I will have more if I can.”
Areli and Jose got married in 2017 and soon started trying for a baby to complete their family.
However, after five years of trying, they had had no success, so they decided to go to Stanford University Hospital to test for infertility in 2022.
Areli underwent an FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone) test, which measures the amount of follicle-stimulating hormone in a blood sample to evaluate reproductive health.
She then did two cycles of infertility treatment, both of which failed, before Areli, who already had a 17-year-old daughter, was diagnosed with secondary infertility in October 2022, the inability to get pregnant after previously successfully giving birth.
Devastated, Areli decided to try to improve her health to boost her chances of conceiving and decided to start taking Ozempic , as she thought it would help inflammation.
“As a nurse, I know that a lot of infertility has to do with inflammation in a woman’s body”, she said.
“And a little bit of weight loss wouldn’t hurt either.
“If I wasn’t going to be able to get pregnant, then at least I would be getting healthier for myself.”
She ordered a batch of Ozempic to her house from an online pharmacy and started taking the jab in early 2023.
“My body started to feel so much better; the inflammation went down. I no longer felt hungry or stressed, I really liked how I felt on it”, she said.
She began tracking her ovulation, and in September 2023, noticed that she had missed a period.
She bought a pregnancy test and was shocked to find it was positive.
“I was so excited but also scared that I would miscarry”, she said.
Thankfully, the pregnancy went smoothly, and she gave birth to a daughter, now two, in April 202…