Fertility Blog

Hope. It’s a four-letter word that holds so much promise, and is essential in life.  In fact, it should really be listed in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a basic human need.

It’s the thing that most of us search high and low for while we’re on our fertility journey....

I am your typical type A personality.  I’m a perfectionist, a control freak and an overachiever. I was also raised by a single mum of 3, who taught me that if you work hard at anything, you’ll achieve it.  She also stressed that if you’re going to do something, you...

Our nervous system is basically the command centre of our body. It’s in charge of our movement, our thoughts, and our auto-responses.

And when we talk about our nervous system, I’m sure you’ve heard it enough times - stress isn’t particularly helpful when you’re...

Secondary infertility is just as common as primary infertility.  In fact, depending on the source or study you look at, it affects approximately 1 in 10 couples. But despite this huge percentage, it’s not something we talk about specifically.

I’m not going to argue or get into a...

A pregnancy loss is a gut-wrenching experience.  You know that statistics – 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss. But when you’re on the other side of that statistic more than once, it can be even more terrifying. Especially when our doctors tell us that it’s common (and even...

When I start working with a client, I always ask them how they want to feel. The answers vary; however, the most common responses are that they want to feel content, peaceful, hopeful, or relaxed.

These are completely understandable responses, given the overwhelm, the burnout, and the...

Infertility is a completely unique experience.  It’s complicated and complex, and half the time, we can’t even make sense of it ourselves.  We’re dealing with big emotions, enormous fears, so much uncertainty, and it really does throw everything we had previously...

One of the most common sources of stress when it comes to trying to have a baby……is your age.

When my husband and I started trying to conceive, I was 33 years old.  It seems so young now that I’m closer to 50 than 40. But back then it was still a source of...

It’s not something we pictured we’d do when we decided it was time to start our family. The decision to go down the path of IVF is not an easy one to make. For some of us, we resist it. We may have even been adamant when we first started trying to conceive that there was no way we...

On this journey, we experience so much loss.  Whether it’s a miscarriage or pregnancy loss, an unsuccessful egg retrieval or frozen embryo transfer, the loss of that picture you had in your head of how your family was going to look, and when this was going to happen.

It’s that...

When you’re going through infertility, whether you’re trying to conceive naturally, or doing IVF or IUI, there are so many questions to navigate your way through.

Sure, we get the insensitive ones from complete strangers or acquaintances – When are you going to have children? Do...

Unexplained infertility.  It’s one of the most frustrating diagnoses, because it is basically saying – we don’t know what the f*ck is wrong with you.

Wikipedia defines it as – infertility that is idiopathic in the sense that its cause remains unknown even after an...