Showing each step of the process. The process of creating it. Kourtney KardashianAnd Travis Barker‘s IVF journey, the couple took a break to explore a more natural approach — which didn’t actually include having sex to conceive.
“Our last egg retrieval was not successful so our new thing that we are going to be trying is a panchakarma cleanse. It is Ayurvedic and it is like 3,000 years old, which will get all of the toxins that are deep within our tissue out of our bodies to have better quality eggs,” the reality star, 43, explained during a new episode of Hulu’s The KardashiansThursday, May 26
Kourtney noted that she did this cleanse a decade ago, saying, “I kept telling Travis about this. This is the one thing that we haven’t tried that he has heard me talk about.”
The couple, who celebrated their love recently with several wedding ceremonies, met later with an Ayurvedic expert. Martha SofferThey were addressed by people who answered their questions about taking a break and resuming their daily activities.
Even though Soffer shared how the hiatus would allow them to reconnect with their wellness, Travis, 46, admitted that it wasn’t an easy process. “I miss caffeine, I miss having sex and I miss exercising,” he told the specialist two days into their pre-cleanse.
Kourtney shared her feelings about the fast sex that helped her connect with the musician earlier in the year. “Oh, my God, it was crazy,” she told BustleMarch “But it actually made everything better.”
The Poosh founder pointed out that reconnecting with Travis after the break made things even hotter, adding, “Like, if you can’t have caffeine, when you have your first matcha, it’s so good.”
Kourtney & Travis openly discussed their fertility journey after their engagement on screen. The Keeping up with KardashiansThe alum also shares Mason (12, Penelope and Reign (7, respectively) with an ex-boyfriend Scott Disick. For his part, the Blink-182 member shares son Landon (18) and daughter Alabama (16) with ex-wife Shanna Moakler.
IVF allows the two of them to explore the possibility that they can have a child together. During a recent episode, Kourtney reflected on the complications, saying, “Our egg retrieval didn’t go the way we would have hoped. He was able to retrieve the egg but it didn’t make it to an embryo stage. We start back again.”
Kourtney spoke highly of her relationship with her now husband, Travis, despite the difficulties. “The fertility journey, Travis and I, we stay in the moment and just do the steps that we need to do,” she shared on May 19. “It is nice to hear good news and have some positivity. We love that, but we just wait to hear the final words.”
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