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I haven’t been totally honest with you…..

It has been an amazing month. I got married just over a week ago and the whirlwind of change it is taking shape and sweeping through our lives again, with big moves and travelling planned over the next few months. It is the usual feeling of excitement with hope and a those little elements of [...]

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Understanding the Basics of how to Get Pregnant

I get this question often….what can I advise to do or take if I am trying to fall pregnant? I guess we are used to having something to follow – perhaps we like the idea of a strategy, something to tell us what to do and when and that this will guarantee us results. I [...]

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Top 5 Ways to increase Fertility

We know that eating a good diet and doing all those good things will help our fertility. Right? I hope so :) However, there are certain things we can do to increase our chances of falling pregnant. These things are great little blurbs of knowledge which will naturally help your whole body feel better, but [...]

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Is tension STOPPING me from getting pregnant?

In my last blog on yoga for fertility, I talked about how women with infertility issues tend to hold more tension and  muscular stress. The primary area that Yoga for fertility focuses on is the pelvic area. If you can relax your pelvic organs and learn to release the muscular tension held here, then you [...]

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5 Things you should know about Getting Pregnant

Pregnancy and falling pregnant can be illusive. It can be this massive thing that never happens. It can be a complete miracle that is completely unprepared for. It can bear with it, many emotions and unanswered questions. Why does it happen for some women and not for others? What did they do differently? How can [...]

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Could Pregnancy actually cure Endometriosis or is that just a myth?

When I reflected back on my body and how different it felt during those few weeks when I was pregnant – before my miscarriage – I discovered why doctors might put women on pregnancy inducing hormones. So many of my symptoms that I used to experience prior to being pregnant went away. They were minor [...]

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What you may not realise about drinking cows milk

When I first read that I should cut out dairy from my diet, it was really hard for me. I loved my cheese and milk drinks! I didn’t know what to have with my cereal and it just felt like this impossible ask, for something that seemed to be such a perfectly healthy food  - [...]

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My Body just wasn’t ready to carry a child

Somehow the hormones have settled today. I feel more myself than I have in the last few weeks. I went to the doctor this morning and had the results given to me, that I definitely wasn’t pregnant. My HCG levels were not in the blood. I thought I would feel more devastated at the final result but [...]

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My Weirdest Side-effect to “Pregnancy Hormones”

It has been over a week since I went to see the Family Planning Clinic and their fairly blunt conclusion that I had a miscarriage. My mind and body just didn’t seem to want to accept that conclusion so easily and it was still early days…. after all, those urine samples can be wrong!  Of [...]

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Miscarriage and Fertility

Since we are all feeling very much for Mel right now, I thought I’d write a little about miscarriage and my own and my students experiences. Its not unusual that even though Mel was not very far along,  she is devastated. For those of us who have had miscarriages we know just how distressing it can [...]

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