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Frequent Flying and Fertility; are your travel plans affecting your conception chances?
As always my articles are inspired by my clients fertility questions over the past month in clinic. One frequently asked is; does flying affect sperm ...
The Emotional Landscape of Trying to Conceive: A 5 Element Perspective
Trying to conceive can stir up some of the deepest emotions we ever experience. As a fertility acupuncturist and herbalist grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine ...
The 4 Key Hormones That Run Your Menstrual Cycle
Your menstrual cycle isn’t random — it’s a beautifully coordinated dance between four key hormones so important for fertility: ✨ Oestrogen, Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), ...
Exercise for Fertility: How to Move with Your Menstrual Cycle (A TCM Guide)
Discover how to exercise for fertility by aligning movement with your menstrual cycle. A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) guide to Yin, Yang, and the four ...
Understanding Progesterone: The unsung hero of fertility and early pregnancy
If you have begun to try for a baby or you are undergoing treatment such as IVF, you've likely heard about progesterone - a hormone that's ...
Understanding Pregnancy Loss
Pregnancy loss or miscarriage is a deeply emotional experience, no matter when it occurs. Even when women wait until the 12-week scan to share their ...
How Acupuncture Can Help Increase Your Fertility Over 35
Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have—around 1 to 2 million. By the time she reaches her first period, that number ...
Do’s and Don’ts in the two-week wait after IVF
The two-week wait can be a nerve-wracking time waiting to find out whether the embryo has successfully implanted. After all the preparation and visits to ...
Optimising Male Fertility: 5 Key Lifestyle and Nutritional Tips
When trying to conceive, much of the focus is often placed on female fertility, but male fertility plays an equally crucial role. Sperm health is ...
10 Things to know about Sperm and Male Fertility
It takes two to make a baby, often in clinic I see women making huge effort and lifestyle changes but not much is changing for ...
Super Foods to Support Your Menstrual Cycle: A TCM Perspective
Every woman’s menstrual cycle has four distinct phases, each crucial for fertility. A healthy cycle allows for a seamless transition from one phase to the ...
To transfer at 3 or 5 days? That is the question
Increasingly, the trend has been to transfer embryos at the 5-day blastocyst stage. I have discussed this with many clients and tended to agree with ...
Dos and Donts during IVF Stimulation
I often get asked in clinic if there is anything that should be done differently whilst in the stimulation phase of a cycle. It is ...
5 ways to combat Stress when TTC
Symptoms of anxiety and stress almost are always present to some extent in clients who are trying to conceive or transitioning into peri menopause/menopause so ...
What you need to know about HFEA if you are having IVF treatment
If you have had IVF or IUI before you probably already know who they are or have seen an additional cost on the end of ...
3 Steps to a Perfect Night’s Sleep
In TCM sleep is a complete expression of yin; dark, cool, inward, replenishing, restful, regenerative. It is medicine in itself. I don't need to go ...
What is a Chemical Pregnancy and how is it different from other pregnancy loses?
Clients often ask me this question, it’s a cold, misleading and confusing term and I would like to explain a bit more about what it ...
Why test Sperm? What tests can reveal how to gain and maintain good Sperm health.
1 in 7 couples will have difficulty in conceiving and male factor alone accounts for 20% of infertility issues and a further 26% male and ...
4 ways to work out your Window of Optimum Fertility
This is a subject that people TTC know well. But how well? It’s always worth a quick reminder on when the most fertile time of ...
2 reasons oral hygiene is super important when you are TTC or pregnant
We have diverse microbial ecosystems all over our bodies, from gut, skin, vagina and the mouth to name just a few. Gut (intestines) microbiome is ...
5 types of Cervical Secretions to look out for
Vaginal discharge changes through the month, these secretions (also known as cervical mucus or cervical secretions) are produced in the cervix and made up of ...