Fertility Facts Archives - Your Fertility Journey

How to Accurately Check Cervical Mucus

by Kate | 18th October 2018 | Blog, Fertility Facts

Mother nature has provided us with the most wonderful secret – our fertility indicators. These are your cervical mucus, temperature and changes in your cervix. Most women have no idea what these are (unless they’re using natural contraception) until they’ve...

How To Improve Egg Quality Over 35

by Kate | 8th October 2018 | Blog, Fertility Facts, ivf

One of the questions I get asked the most is if there is anything that can be done to improve egg quality, and particularly how women can improve egg quality over 35. It is well known that a woman is born with all of the eggs she will ever possess and that the amount...

What is Clomid and how does it work?

by Kate | 8th October 2018 | Blog, Fertility Facts, PCOS

If you’re struggling to conceive, you may have been offered clomid by your doctor. Clomid is a common fertility drug but how does it help fertility? Are there any side effects to clomid? Who can use clomid? And how well does clomid work? Here is everything you need to...

That well known fertility dilemma – how to accurately time your progesterone test.

by Kate | 9th July 2018 | Blog, Fertility Facts

Your doctor may have suggested that you have a progesterone test to confirm ovulation or to assess your progesterone levels in the luteal phase. Or you may have recently had a test and are dumbfounded to be told that you’re not ovulating. The secret is all in the...

What is Endometriosis – Signs, Symptoms and Treatment

by Kate | 25th June 2018 | Blog, Fertility Facts

Endometriosis is a chronic, non-cancerous condition where cells that resemble the uterus lining, called endometrial cells, grow outside the uterus. This causes chronic inflammation and pain and can lead to scarring of the organs of the pelvis, causing fertility...

Pineapples and Fertility – how does the gorgeous pineapple help with your fertility?

by Kate | 11th June 2018 | Blog, Fertility Facts

If you are on a fertility journey, you will have no doubt come across images of pineapples on social media and talk in forums about the benefit of eating a whole pineapple, core and all, when you are going through IVF. What is this all about and is there any...