Fertility Add-ons: is it right for me?
You might be offered extra fertility treatments if you’ve had previously failed IVFs or investigations suggest they might help, these are called ‘Add-ons’. The difficulty for patients having IVF is…
Vaginal bacterial & fungal Infections
The bacteria in the vagina or its microbiome has been linked to poor reproductive health such as infertility, poor IVF results, frequent miscarriage, pre-term birth and frequent infections, including bacterial…
Wintertime Sleep & Fertility
It is January and I know many of you will be at the gym or attending a new exercise classes to counter the excess of the festive season, but actually…
Fertility surgery and acupuncture
As part of your road to enhancing your fertility you may have surgery to remove fibroids and endometriosis. You may do a fresh IVF cycle where eggs are collected from…
Wine O’clock & Making Babies
Alcohol abstinence or even reduction when trying for a baby can become a contentious issue between couples. Usually I find among my clients that the woman has given up or…
Egg Freezing: What The Papers say!
Newspaper headlines have been screaming about soaring numbers of women freezing their eggs. Is this all down to Apple and Facebook offering their female employees the ‘job perk’ of egg…
Stress and Men’s Fertility
Stress is misunderstood and not always bad; it is the way our body has evolved to deal with life’s challenges. Unfortunately our physiology is stuck in the days when we…
Stress and Women’s Fertility
Both physical and emotional stress can negatively impact women’s fertility. Many factors can disrupt the delicate hormonal dance that causes the release of an egg every month and stress is…