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.
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...
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...
PCOS New Name: What the Change to PMOS Actually Means
If you have spent years trying to get a PCOS diagnosis — or years being told your symptoms were normal, your cycles were just irregular, your weight was the problem — the news that the condition is being renamed may land differently than it does for anyone...
PGT-A Testing: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the UK's independent fertility regulator, is one of the few public bodies anywhere in the world that publishes plain-English evidence reviews on the optional tests, treatments and laboratory techniques offered...
PRP IVF: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
You are ready to transfer. The embryo is stored. But your lining is not where your clinic wants it to be — not thick enough, not responding the way it should, not yet creating the conditions the embryo needs to arrive into.Platelet-rich plasma, infused...
ERA Test IVF: What the Regulator Assessment Actually Shows
A failed transfer of a good-quality embryo is one of the hardest things to make sense of. The clinical numbers said the embryo was strong. The lining looked right on the scan. The protocol was followed. And still, no pregnancy.When that happens, the...
Pre implantation genetic testing IVF: What does the extra cost buy you?
Preimplantation genetic testing IVF identifies chromosomally normal embryos before transfer and is frequently offered as a significant additional cost within IVF packages — yet even a genetically screened embryo does not guarantee a live birth.Understanding the...
What to eat on day of embryo transfer
Today is not a day to wing it.Nobody tells you how strange transfer day feels.You have been through scans, injections, egg collection, the phone calls about fertilisation, the grading updates. And now you are sitting in a waiting room with a full bladder,...
Magnesium for Egg Development, Sperm Function and Implantation
Magnesium and fertility are closely linked through the energy systems that support your baby’s earliest beginnings. From the maturation of the egg and the movement of sperm, to the rapid cellular activity that follows implantation, magnesium helps regulate...