Original image from blog.mybigeyekids.com I see patients from all walks of the fertility journey. Some natural fertility, some assisted conception and some, that have truly been over the hill, to the moon, around the block and back again. One...
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“I am wondering at what point you recommend going the medical intervention route (if at all)? We have been trying for 3.5 years. The specialist ….. recommended trying natually as long as we wanted to, and then if we had no luck the...
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I believe our thoughts and feelings create our reality – and it is for this very reason we might actually be thinking ourselves ‘infertile’. There are two facets to emotional infertility. Firstly, the stress of conceiving long before embarking on...
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Plastic is everywhere, and as much as we try to avoid it, every corner we turn, there it is again. And as convenient as it is to pop last nights leftovers into a plastic container ready for tomorrow’s lunch – it might be time to start...
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Image from flickr – I searched for ‘lost faith’ and this came up. I like it. I’m often slightly broken hearted when I hear a patient say she has lost faith in her body – because it is failing her. Often by the time she comes to...
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Image from Cuba Gallery, via Flickr Does it seem you spent most of your twenties trying your darndest not to fall pregnant, only to discover that now you’re thirty-something the pipes aren’t as squeaky clean as you expected? You are not alone...
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Original image from Flickr At least one in six couples who visit me in the clinic do so because they have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility. The thing is I very rarely see a couple to whom I can’t explain why they aren’t...
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Who wants a sexually transmitted disease (STD)? I don’t see any hands rising. The fact is, STD’s exist and many women suffer long term effects of contracting STDs. Usually this is because they were either unaware they had contracted it, or...
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