by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 29, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Unexplained Infertility
Egg reserve is often spoken about as if it were a fixed store of eggs that can be counted, measured, and predicted. In reality, what we are trying to understand is ovarian activity — how many follicles are present, how many have left dormancy, and how many are...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 29, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Secondary Infertility, Unexplained Infertility
Egg quality does not occur in isolation.Every egg matures within a follicle — a specialised structure that provides the cellular, metabolic, and hormonal environment in which egg quality develops over time..When we talk about egg health, we are also talking about...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 27, 2026 | Guides, Male Factor Infertility, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
The baby you are working toward depends on two cells meeting with extraordinary precision. While sperm are produced continuously, the process that creates them is highly regulated and biologically demanding.Sperm development follows a tightly regulated biological...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 27, 2026 | Egg Quality, Guides, Low AMH, Ovulation, Unexplained Infertility
The baby you are working toward begins with biology that is both precise and quietly extraordinary. Ovulation can feel like a monthly event — one egg, released, then gone. But egg development is not a one-month story. If you have been told your numbers look...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 11, 2026 | Egg Freezing, Guides, IVF, Low AMH
When people research fertility preservation, they are often told that embryo freezing has higher success rates than egg freezing. Sometimes they are also told that modern egg freezing is “almost as good now”. Both statements can be true — and still deeply misleading....
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Jan 11, 2026 | Guides, Hormones, Low AMH
Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is now one of the most commonly used blood tests in fertility care. It is frequently presented as a way to assess ovarian reserve, predict future fertility, estimate time pressure, and guide decisions about egg freezing or IVF. Yet despite...
