Gabi Metz did exactly what every woman does when she’s preparing for a family.
She stopped taking her birth control and waited for her period to return. Only it didn’t.
That’s when she looked to the moon.
“I’d never had a baby. I was lactating anyway”
“If the moon can control oceans, why can’t it affect my body?” she told Kidspot.
Concerned about the absence of her period, Gabi visited her doctor, who referred her to an endocrinologist for further investigation.
“She squeezed my boob and milk came out, which was bizarre because I’d never had a baby. I was lactating anyway,” she revealed.
Gabi was diagnosed with a prolactinoma before trying to conceive her first son. A benign tumour on her pituitary gland triggered an overproduction of prolactin, impacting her entire hormonal system.
It meant her periods stopped altogether, with practitioners telling her pregnancy dreams depended on one thing. Medicine.
“She just said to me, ‘Look, the only way that you’re going to fall pregnant and get your period back is if you take this medication,’” she said.
For her first pregnancy, she listened to their advice, only to experience adverse effects.
“It made me feel so horrible the first time around. It made me drowsy,” she explained.
So when it came to planning baby number two, taking medication was out of the question.
“Watch me. Just watch me, girl. I’m going to do this my way,” she said.
She stumbled upon a blog post that changed everything.
“This blog article basically said this: if you want to regulate your period, if you want to get your period, you need to do something called lunception,” she explained.
“It sounded crazy, but I thought I’d try anything!”
“It feels like I’ve got period pain”
The method might raise eyebrows.
“You basically sleep in absolute darkness… and then for two nights of the month, you sleep with the curtains wide,” she details.
“You can start to sync your cycle with the moon.”
She removed artificial light and took supplements for the hormonal imbalance caused by the tumor.
“I did this like religiously. Slept in pitch black darkness,” she said.
After four months, she experienced a total breakthrough.
“I remember standing in my kitchen one day, and I was like ‘Wow! It feels like I’ve got period pain,’” she recalled.
“That day I got my period.”
It’s a moment she found to be deeply empowering.
Months after the return of her period, she was blessed to see the two lines she never thought she’d see naturally. She fell pregnant.
“I just trusted my body so much and all the things that came with it,” she said.
“It’s one of those things where you have to really just also connect back to your own intuition and trust that you can do it.”
She acknowledges that scepticism toward her method is to be expected.
“You don’t have to believe me,” she insists.
“What’s the harm in trying? The only other outcome is it wouldn’t work, but it could work.”
While Gabi is essentially a human crystal charged by the moonlight, she wants others to know that trusting your body and exploring unconventional paths can be empowering.
“Even if everybody’s doing it differently, it doesn’t matter. If you trust and believe something, it will happen for you. No matter what,” she said.
Though the tumor remains, Gabi continues to manage it seven years on from giving birth to her second son. She is relying on supplements and her unwavering belief in her body.
Surgery, while an option, comes with significant risks. The endocrinologist said they’d have to go through her nose to remove.
“If it slightly misses the tumor, then it’s going to damage your speech,’ she explained.
“I decided to take my chances and manage it naturally instead.”
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