Hello and thank you for being here on my site where we talk about all things related to female fertility (and how to improve it at advanced age). I'm pleased to announce my next webinar Improving Fertility Naturally: Lifestyle interventions that actually WORK Which will take place on September 10th at 8 p.m. (CET) Register CLICK here (What is [...]
Fertility tomorrow: A young startup works on revolutionizing fertility testing Latest when women try to get pregnant do they become interested in their reproductive hormones. When trying to conceive, it suddenly becomes interesting for many women, what fertility hormones are and how they actually work. Why is there no ovulation without LH surge? What does estrogen have [...]
I've been delaying writing this post for months – probably longer. Maybe I thought that women all around the world will give up on BBT charting altogether because there are better methods than measuring basal temperature to determine ovulation. But no one seems to be tired of BBT temping. On the contrary, the market is flourishing with fancy [...]
Getting pregnant and giving birth to a healthy baby seems like the most natural thing in the world. And yet sometimes it doesn’t happen. Some women will conceive the moment they first try (or even with no planning at all) while some will wait for months and years to experience this joy. Wouldn’t it be good to know [...]
Once I coached a 41-year old woman who has gone through nineteen unsuccessful insemination rounds. Yes, nineteen, and nobody told her it was time to stop. She reasoned that, if pregnancy rates are estimated at 10-15 % per insemination cycle, the only thing she has to do, is try hard enough before she gets pregnant. But this is [...]
This article appeared in a blog by Alanna Lawley two weeks ago. Some weeks ago, Alanna and I sat together and talked about infertility, love and relationships, and the importance of women understanding their egg health. I also gave some practical tips related to determining the ovarian reserve and coping with infertility. Photos by Petra Graf [...]
Looking back, hiring a doula for my second birth was one the best decisions of my life. Or should I say, NOT hiring a doula for my first labor was one of the most stupid things I ever did. But no one told me I should hire a doula. No one ever mentioned that [...]
Image courtesy of nenetus at FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you're going through a fertility treatment, most likely you don't get to talk about it very much. Because infertility is still a taboo topic and in my opinion that will not significantly change at any point soon. If the only person you discuss your TTC struggle with is your [...]
