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 Chromosome Abnormality: What Current Research Shows
Advanced maternal age tells you when chromosome abnormality risk rises. Ovarian ageing helps explain why that risk rises. Current research shows more about how that risk develops inside the follicle where the egg matures — and why nutrition support before IVF and...
Euploid Embryo Meaning: What a PGT-Normal Result Really Means Before FET
A euploid result from PGT-A testing is the best result you can hope for from this type of embryo screening. It means the trophectoderm cells biopsied from your embryo showed 46 chromosomes, which matters because embryos with missing or extra chromosomes are less...
IVIG and IVF: What the UK’s Fertility Regulator Actually Says
Your embryo transfer is approaching and now you may be doubting if you can successfully navigate the next phase. IVIG has been suggested — but is it really worth it. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has evaluated it for you.The Human...
Low AMH and Donor Eggs: Is It Really Your Only Option?
When low AMH is diagnosed and your clinic wants to use donor eggs it can cause an immediate recoil. This is probably something you have never considered before. And before you make any decision, it is worth being clear on what your AMH result is actually telling you —...
Egg Reserve & AMH: The Numbers, Unlocked
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...
Intralipids for IVF: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
You may have been told your NK cells are high. Your clinic has recommended intralipids — an intravenous fat infusion offered before transfer to calm the immune response that may, the theory goes, be working against your embryo. The test felt like an answer...
Assisted Hatching: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
Your embryo is ready for transfer. And your clinic has suggested assisted hatching — a brief laboratory procedure performed on your embryo before it is placed in the uterus.The idea behind it is straightforward. Your embryo is surrounded by a protective...
Does Embryo Glue Work? What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
The transfer is booked. Your embryo is ready. And somewhere in the paperwork, Embryo Glue has appeared — an addition to the transfer medium that your clinic says may help the embryo attach. It is a small thing to say yes to. A substance added to the fluid surrounding...
Endo Scratch: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
Before your next transfer, your clinic may have suggested an endometrial scratch.It is a small procedure, performed in the cycle before transfer. A thin catheter is passed through the cervix and a small area of the uterine lining is abraded — scratched —...
Egg Quality: How Your Eggs Repair DNA
Egg quality depends on the ability of the egg to repair DNA and maintain genetic stability throughout its development - from before you are born right up to ovulation.An egg cell carries far more than genetic material. It also contains the cellular...