by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Dec 30, 2025 | Egg Quality, Guides, Nutrition, Secondary Infertility, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
When fertility doesn’t progress as expected, the explanation is often over-simplified.You were born with all your eggs.Egg quality can’t really be changed.Sperm looks fine.IVF will take care of the rest.For many women, these explanations don’t match what they...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Dec 15, 2025 | Guides, Hormones, Ovulation, PCOS, Unexplained Infertility
Ovulation is often described as a single moment — an egg released, a window opened, a chance taken.In reality, ovulation reflects how effectively your brain, ovaries, and wider endocrine and metabolic systems have been communicating across the 90-day fertility window...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | Nov 28, 2025 | Guides, HSE Fertility Hub, Implantation, IVF, Male Factor Infertility, Miscarriage, Sperm Quality, Unexplained Infertility
Semen analysis is the first-line test for male fertility, but it has a major blind spot: it doesn’t measure sperm DNA fragmentation — a crucial marker that influences fertilisation, embryo development and miscarriage risk. For many couples, everything on paper appears...
by Claire Burrows NLC MIRIL | 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 Burrows NLC MIRIL | 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 Burrows NLC MIRIL | 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....
