Dr Natalie Crawford

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Toxins, Stress, and What They're Doing to Your Hormones with a Top Reproductive Endocrinologist · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

They catch up.

So by one year, it's no different.

But if you're sitting across from me saying, I want to do everything I can to have the highest chance of pregnancy, let's remove that IUD six months before you want to start trying so that you have those months to learn to track your cycle, let it come back, but also let the uterine lining get back to a normal.

It's not completely wrong.

I would say the bigger problem in today's day and age is that these women have never had a normal period.

Many women are getting progestin IUDs at a really young age, or they're hopping from birth control or the implant to the IUD, and their period's not a vital sign to them.

So they don't know what's supposed to be normal and how much blood is normal when you know if that has repaired.

Another thing I see after IUDs

You know, I see scar tissue inside the uterus.

And I see a very select group of patients.

But this is going to be higher in women who have a really traumatic insertion.

We can talk about pain in our fields and how it's been, you know, under addressed for such a long time.

But if you had a very painful experience getting your IUD in or out...

And then specifically, if you're not having periods after it's removed or they seem extremely light, it's normal if they're light for a few months because the lining does have to grow back.

But I just say after three months, you should start to see it grow back more and have a more normal bleed.

If you don't, I'm worried there could be some scar tissue inside the lining.

And I have a handful of patients that that was what was causing their infertility.

And we went in and took out the scar tissue and then they got pregnant.

But again, should they be forced to wait for a year before we even find out that that's going on?

No.

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