by Claire | Nov 25, 2025 | Egg Quality, Guides, Hormones, HSE Fertility Hub, Implantation, IVF, Low AMH, Male Factor Infertility, Miscarriage, Nutrition, PCOS, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
Optimizing IVF success begins long before egg collection. While clinics focus on stimulation, retrieval and transfer, the biology behind egg quality, sperm health, embryo development and implantation starts much earlier. Understanding the normal IVF attrition funnel —...
by Claire | Nov 23, 2025 | Guides, HSE Fertility Hub, Secondary Infertility, Unexplained Infertility
What Is Secondary Infertility?Secondary infertility means struggling to conceive again after already having a child. But for most couples, the definition doesn’t capture the full truth of the experience.Secondary infertility is about the family you imagined — the...
by Claire | Nov 22, 2025 | Guides, HSE Fertility Hub, IVF, Secondary Infertility
Age is the first rule many women discover in the HSE fertility hub — and often the one that shapes their pathway before they’ve had a chance to understand their own physiology. It decides who moves forward, who is stopped early, and who is quietly discharged long...
by Claire | Nov 11, 2025 | Guides, Secondary Infertility, Unexplained Infertility
5 Ways Hormonal Birth Control Affects Fertility As a teenager growing up in Catholic Ireland in the seventies, contraception – and certainly “the pill” – was not an option. Condoms were only accessed by train trips to Northern Ireland where they were easily available....
by Claire | Nov 6, 2025 | Hormones, Male Factor Infertility, Nutrition, Ovulation, PCOS, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
When people think about fertility, insulin is rarely the first hormone that comes to mind. Yet insulin plays a quiet but powerful role in shaping the metabolic conditions in which reproductive hormones operate.As a key metabolic signal, insulin communicates whether...
