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.
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...
Embryo Transfer Success Rates: Why 2 in 3 Do Not Lead to a Live Birth
When you are preparing for an embryo transfer, a success rate does not feel like a statistic. It feels personal. Even more so when this may be your last embryo. Across embryo transfers overall, approximately two in three do not result in a live birth. That does not...
Auto injector for PIO shots
When your clinic tells you that you will be using progesterone in oil for your frozen embryo transfer, the medication itself may not be your first concern. It may be how you are going to inject it. PIO is usually given as an intramuscular injection into the upper...
Segmental Mosaic Embryo: How It May Affect Transfer Priority
If you have a segmental mosaic embryo in storage, the decision is rarely about that embryo in isolation. You may be trying to understand whether it should be transferred after an available euploid embryo, how it compares with a whole-chromosome mosaic embryo or...
High Mosaic Embryo: What It Means for Transfer Priority
When you have a high mosaic embryo, you may need to decide whether it remains in your transfer plan, whether other embryos should be prioritised first, or whether another egg collection should come before transfer. A high mosaic result is considered more cautiously...