Guides to a Fertile Body
Simple, grounded steps to nourish your body without overwhelm.
These guides offer clear, practical support to help you build a nourished, fertile body in your own time.
Each one is designed to remove confusion and give you gentle steps you can take with confidence.
My hope is that you feel supported, steady, and more in tune with your body as you move through them.
HSE Fertility Hub Guide
Understand how the HSE Fertility Hubs actually work — the numbers, the bottlenecks, and the quiet impact on real families. This guide shows you what’s happening behind the scenes and how to protect your chances while you wait.
Advanced Maternal Age and Natural Fertility
Being over 40 increases the statistical risk that an egg will contain the wrong number of chromosomes. But age is not the only risk factor acting on that egg. During the months before ovulation, the egg develops within a metabolic and nutritional environment...
Lifestyle Factors That Directly Affect Your AMH
When you are trying to conceive, one of the numbers that will matter to you is your AMH. AMH is a hormone, it can go up as well as down and it does decline naturally with age. If you are trying to conceive naturally it has little or no impact on your chances because,...
Does Low AMH Mean You Need IVF Right Away?
If your AMH has come back low, you've probably already heard the shorthand version of what it means. A number, a raised eyebrow from your GP, and a referral letter that reads like the decision has already been made. You haven't asked to skip straight to IVF. You've...
Can I Get Pregnant Naturally With Low AMH?
AMH is often one of the first fertility checks made, mainly because it is a simple blood test, taken at any time of your menstrual cycle, rather than because of its accuracy for measuring your fertility You may be told that your egg reserve is low, time is running out...
Letrozole for Frozen Embryo Transfer: Why It Is Used
Letrozole is widely associated with ovulation induction, so finding it on a frozen embryo transfer medication plan can seem unexpected. Your embryos have already been created and no eggs are being collected. In an FET cycle, letrozole has a narrower job. Understanding...
Fresh Embryo Transfer Cancelled Due to OHSS: What Happens Next?
You may have reached egg collection expecting the next step to be a fresh embryo transfer. Instead, you developed OHSS and your clinic cancelled the transfer. If an embryo implanted, the resulting rise in hCG could intensify the ovarian swelling and fluid shifts...
Live Birth Rate Per Egg Retrieved vs Per Embryo Transfer
You can look at one IVF success rate and see a low percentage per egg collected, then look at another and see a much higher percentage per embryo transfer. It can feel as though one of them must be wrong. Usually, neither is. Each percentage starts counting at a...
Second Embryo Transfer Success Rate: Are Your Chances Different?
After a failed first transfer, it can feel as though the odds have already moved against you. They have not automatically changed because this is your second attempt. Here, a failed transfer means that the pregnancy test was negative. A biochemical pregnancy or...
Day 5 vs Day 6 Blastocyst Success Rates
You may have one embryo that reached the blastocyst stage on Day 5 and another that reached it on Day 6. If your clinic has placed the Day 5 blastocyst first on your transfer list, the difference of a single day can feel like a verdict on which embryo is more likely...
Frozen Embryo Transfer Success Rates by Age
When you look at frozen embryo transfer success rates by age, the first thing you need to know is which age the figures refer to. For the embryo’s age-related chromosome risk, the relevant age is your age when the egg was collected, not your age when the embryo is...