Hello and welcome to this episode of the Fertility Rewire podcast. Now, it's been a while. Again, I've taken a break.  I've actually really, I've got quite a neck injury and I've been wearing a neck brace and have had the same sort of battle with my healthcare that I know you face a lot with your fertility, but you know, I've stuck with it. I've got to the route that I need to be taking now and things are improving massively. So I'm back doing everything that I was before. So you may have...

It was a great pleasure to chat with Hoopsy Founder Lara Solomon in this episode where we discuss hope, support and saving the environment when trying to get pregnant.   Hoopsy provide resources and information to those trying to conceive, as well as an eco friendly pregnancy test, made from99% paper (that doesn’t get wet) and is 99% accurate at a comparable cost to plastic single use tests.   Lara talks about her realization about the amount of single use plastic used during her own IVF...

It can be a time of dread and fear cant it?   Family gatherings, the questions you know you'll get asked.  But what will you reply?  Do you smile politely, still keeping this very personal subject to yourself, or do you let them have it: None of your business!   Its a time for family, and the sense of loss can be huge, overwhelming even.   I want to give a sense of hope this christmas. My wish for you is that you start to understand what could be affecting your fertility, that you have...

Feeling lost is something I hear a lot from my clients and people i speak to about their fertility struggles.   The thing about being lost is that we are often looking for the way out, but before we can truly do that we have to know where we are.   I discuss how we can do that, how we need trusted sources and once we know where we are we can get help to get to where we need to go, or help to know where we need to be going next.   I also announce the launch of the new Conceivable...

It’s hard to stick to all the things that you are trying to improve your chances of getting pregnant, especially if you don’t really know why you are doing them or know if they are working.   I was recently called out on this a bit with my own business.  What was my motivation? Well my motivation was to of course get clients that I can help, and to educate and advocate for couples through my podcast.   So why haven't recorded an episode for months?   Well I've been poorly, my kids have...

It's a viscous circle: stress affects ovulation, and as you no doubt no ovulations affects stress.  As a result it can also impact other areas of your life. In this episode I discuss the stress of ovulation, why it impacts your fertility and what you can do about it. So there is potentially a lot, you don't know, but there is a lot you can know. So if you want to get more answers, if you want to get the answers or even find the right questions, so you can get the answers, then I can help...

I ask you to imagine you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself at the point you decided to try to start or extend your family.  What would have been useful and what do you wish you had been told. I also go into detail about what  you should have been told and how my dream is that anyone who is thinking of starting or extending a family should be informed abut.  In ancient times the elder women of the village would share key information, would have cultures in place including...

I'm often reminded of the Meatloaf song. I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that. Will we do anything in blind faith and is that wise?  What's actually needed is more thorough education of what we can do.  And the first step is becoming your own fertility detective, in a controlled and structured way, often with support to interpret your findings.   So what can you look into, well if you've heard me talk before, first off luteal phase and sperm, follicular phase, strength of...

Do you feel you should be happy? Or are you made to feel that by society or specifically the fertility space on special media?   I have had a few clients whose Dr has actually suggested that they should be happy with one.  But having another child has such a huge emotional difference doesn’t it? It's not about having a child, it's about having a sibling, and guilt can be an overriding emotion in this and lack of community and support.   I’m excited to share that I am launching a group...

Experiencing a miscarriage is devastating, and when we do, we are not necessarily treated as we perhaps should be by the medical profession and society really.   When faced with someone else’s grief and sadness, as humans we offer platitudes, or try to offer our own experience, perhaps as some sort of support? But it’s not helpful to hear always is it?   Something needs to be done, but what? Do we need education about miscarriage, about dealing with someone else grief and how to support,...

When it comes to not getting pregnant, we want to know why, we want to know the cause.   Even if you are given a cause, its important to know that it may not be the only factor affecting things.   A blocked fallopian tube or tubes of course is a huge factor in preventing pregnancy but bypassing tis with IVF will not guarantee success because they may indeed be more than 1 thing, there could be multiple factors affecting fertility. 2 partners each with a number of things affecting perhaps. ...

I discuss why your fertility tests may not be ‘normal’ after all.  Have you been told that your results are ‘normal’? That there is nothing to be done? That your fertility issues are unexplained? What we have to realise first of all is that our medical model deals with ill health, that test results outside of the wide range represent ill health, but that those within it do not necessarily represent healthy. When trying to conceive you want to be at your healthiest surely?  In this episode I...

In this episode I chatted with Professor Geeta Nargund, an inspiring woman putting women first Medical Director at Creative Fertility about Natural and Mild IVF and getting the same success as conventional IVF with reduced treatment Burden, reduced complications and improved outcomes for babies. Before I started chatting with her, I wanted to let her know that I've been interested in what Create Fertility has been doing for a long time. It makes such a lot of sense to work with the body, to...

In this episode I talk about the 2 week wait, which is generally the wait from ovulation to the end of your cycle or from embryo transfer to when you can do a pregnancy test. But before I even get into the general advice for how you can survive this I acknowledge the fact that you are pretty much waiting throughout your whole cycle, so 2 weeks is in itself a misnomer. In fact when you add up how long you've been trying, the wait so far could be months or years I also discuss how the 2 week...

Well, hello, it's been a while hasn't hit?   For those of you that have listened to this podcast from the very beginning, it's been quite a gap. I'm sure for those of us that have caught up later. It may still be a gap and for that, I apologise.   What happened was I decided to take a break between season one and season two and that break was going to be about a month or maybe two months. That was April 2021. It was also around tht time that the UK was to some extent re opening.   I was...

Sylvia Kang has an incredible back story, and an incredible mind. She developed the Mira Fertility Tracker, a hand held device to give laboratory standard results to support you when trying to conceive. I've used the tracker and many of my clients do, with great effect. We also use it to see how the work we are doing is changing things. Theres a lot more to come with Mira, with some exciting new hormone testing parameters coming, namely progesterone and Beta HCG.

Are you accepting ovulation pain as normal? Perhaps you even consider it to be normal. Thats what a lot of my clients have thought and you may be surprised to hear that actually it my in fact be an indication of something hindering your fertility. It's so important to be physically and emotionally aware of what is happening, and I hope that this episode can start to do that.

Are you telling yourself what you know you "should" be doing, but..? Are you asking 'why should I, other people get pregnant without making changes'? Perhaps you are wanting some certainty, or are overwhelmed with all the advice about what you should do, and your stress, anxiety and need for certainty is becoming too much. In this episode I discuss how the use of the word should could in itself be negatively affecting your emotional health the it cones to fertility and what you can do.

You'll know I'm sure off you've listened to me before how passionate I am about increasing education about male factor in fertility. It was an absolute pleasure to chat to Prof. Sheryl Homa, of Andrology solutions about what we are overlooking. How some readily available tests could be providing answers, treatments and stop the heart ache and expense that so many couples face when it comes to getting and staying pregnant. This episode is a MUST...

Any Fertility Journey can be overwhelming. When you add assisted treatments, numerous cycles, different clinics even it cane even more so. This is what Ravid Israel experienced and as a result developed the Embie app, the first app specifically for tracking assisted fertility. We covered a lot, overwhelm, control, trust, and support. It was an absolute pleasure to discuss the app, her own experience and to see the great benefits to me as a therapist working with those undergoing assisted...

Have you thought about your uterus in terms of a nest? About the importance of having a thick, nourishing and supportive lining for the baby to nestle down and grow. We tend to focus on egg and sperm and miss this vital aspect. Of course with IVF this is measured and monitored, but actually maybe not to what. the research suggests. So in this episode I start to explore areas that you could start to think about and share some examples of clients I have worked with.

what starts off as a feeling of hope can quickly diminish, and a sense of sadness can grow into something so much more overwhelming and deeper. When we look at signs of depression, we can see many commonalities in the day to day feelings of this experiencing fertility issues. In this episode I share some understanding and insights.

The physical and emotional factors. that affect getting pregnant with your second child, or third are huge. Perhaps if you struggled to get pregnant the first time, you thought you'd be happy with one, so why changed. Perhaps it was quite straightforward the first time and you feel you should be happy with one. But that longing to be pregnant again, to have another child is about so much more, its about a sibling...

At the start of this episode I let you know about the free reset and balance your hormones event running 16th-19th November 2020. If. you've heard me before, you'll know that I have some strong (validated) opinions and that I believe those wishing to start a family should be given a whole lot more advise and support than the currently receive, a whole lot more and this is what I discuss in todays episode