Assumptions That Prevent Pregnancy

Double Check Your Assumptions – they could be keeping you infertile! For most couples, infertility is a terrible experience that derails their life and takes them on a path they never expected to walk.  It’s a confusing highly stressful path where lots of decisions about big important things need to be made, and all against […]

What A Cute Chick Taught Me About Hope

Several years ago our family was buzzing with excitement when 7 out of 10 eggs from our backyard hen’s hatched into super cute chicks.  An 8th chick hatched a few days later which unfortunately gives the earlier siblings a head start on growth and soon it became obvious that amidst heavy competition for mom’s attention, […]

Dental Health & Fertility

It can take a Caucasian woman with gum disease about 2 months longer to get pregnant than a similar woman without gum disease, and (strangely) for non-Caucasians it can take up to 12 months longer!  Source. “What?… That’s mad!” you might say, but actually, it isn’t.  If you view health the way most doctors and […]

Bacterial Vaginosis

Most people have heard of Thrush, but very few are aware of a condition called Bacterial Vaginosis, despite it being twice as common.  It’s implicated in pre-term delivery, and 2nd trimester miscarriage, so this is a serious issue. Officially BV is caused by an imbalance of bacteria in the vagina and is characterised by a […]