Want some pre-prepared answers to the inappropriate questions you know you're going to be asked at Christmas-time? Read on!

It's men's health week this week - so I thought it was a good time to talk about Sperm - specifically about Sperm DNA fragmentation . Sperm DNA fragmentation testing is having a bit of time in the sun at the moment. It's becoming an increasingly popular test among couples with unexplained infertility. But what's actually being tested – and why? This article breaks it all down in simple terms, drawing on my more than 20 years of experience as an embryologist and fertility educ

If you’re a guy embarking on an IVF journey with your partner, it can sometimes be hard to know how best to be there for them. You might...

So many people I speak to, when I talk about the work I do, say either they don’t need to know about hormone disrupters because they’re...

Can you believe it's June and this is my first blog for 2023!! I have been so focussed on supporting my clients that I just haven't found...

(this post will be reviewed and updated soon, but for now...) Implantation failure….. such a tricky one! When we start to talk about...

What actually ARE intralipids? Intralipid is a fat emulsion - which basically means it is fat mixed in with oil and water (mainly soybean...

Firstly, your clinic isn't interested in transferring embryos that don't at least have a reasonable chance at creating a pregnancy. Most...

Can you impact egg quality or not? If you ask a fertility doctor, they will probably say no If you ask a Naturopath, a Dietitian or a...

This journey is a challenging one - mostly because there is so much that is missed in our high school education of how the body works.....

If you google 'support during IVF' (at least from my computer) you get about 19,800,000 results. Scrolling through the first page of...

One of the really common questions I get asked is something along the lines of: 'if I am a girl, and my partner is keen to have a baby,...

ook, I know.. It sounds a bit weird.. but bear with me... I reckon new fertility treatments and protocols are a bit like a new...

S T⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I had a great experience with Lucy who helped me find the right obstetrician during a very overwhelming time. I was...

UPDATE 12th June 2025 This article appeared in the media last year from the USA. Since I wrote this blog (at the time this article was...

I have so many different strategies for helping you feel on top of things throughout your treatment and I pull out different ones...

It's not always as easy as it seems. This is a presentation I did at a recent event, to a very mixed audience of young women (probably...

What are they really? and should we use them to choose a clinic? What about googling our 'chances' of success? If you want help choosing...

There's been a lot of chatter this week about a website comparing success rates of IVF clinics in Australia (if you haven't found it yet,...

Male factor infertility accounts for almost 50% of all infertility (30% solely male factor, 30% solely female factor, 30% a combination...