My top 5 favourite foods to ensure I get lots of Folate in my diet are Broccoli, Avocado, Asparagus, Lentils/beans and Nuts/seeds. Folate (Vitamin B9) is vital for cell division for a growing embryo and helps prevent neural tube defects of the brain such as anencephaly and spina bifida. It can also help improve sperm … Continue reading Five Folate Foods
It's so much easier to see the path you have come from and when looking back you really can see how things came about. You can see where your trips were, the crooked stones, your mistakes, your regrets, but also you can see the amazing triumphs, the courage and strength you had. You can also … Continue reading Life is to be lived forward
What storm are you facing? What rainbow are you chasing? 🌈 A few days ago we went for a beautiful walk around a lake in the pouring rain. ☂️ Afterwards the sun came through but though we searched we didn't see a rainbow. Sometimes the clouds stick around a long time before the rainbow … Continue reading After The Storm
PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) can be found in up to 95% of women who have long cycles and is a major cause of infertility. PCOS is where the ovaries are enlarged and there are many follicles on the ovary but they contain immature eggs and ovulation rarely occurs, if at all. Male hormone levels are … Continue reading Long cycles and PCOS
Did you know that ovulation only occurs on day 14 in 13.5% of cycles? Wow! This is a shocking revelation. So many of us believe this myth that day 14 is when ovulation will occur when in reality this is rarely the case. Discovering this missing piece of the jigsaw can make a … Continue reading When do you Ovulate?
"To live without hope is to cease to live.” I think I might make this my personal mantra! Without hope I doubt I would make it through each day. . To wake up each day longing to have your own child to hold is so hard and painful. In the early days of trying it's … Continue reading Living with Hope
In these times especially, it can be easy to be scared about what lies ahead. When it comes to infertility struggles I do find at times I am really hopeful for the future and yet there is part of me that is terrified to think 'what if it never happens for us?'. We have no … Continue reading Grasp the Present
About 1 in every 6 couples across the world right now are struggling to conceive. Some figures show this to be 1 in 7 or 1in 8 in some western countries but in some developing countries this is as high as 1 in 4! My husband and I have unfortunately found ourselves in this category. … Continue reading Are you 1 in 6?
Time for a bit of honesty. Yesterday and today I've had a horrid headache. 😣🙅♀️The kind of tension headache that radiates across the eyebrows and goes to the back of my head and down my neck. For me this is a sure sign that my period is on its way and we have not been … Continue reading Rise above the storm
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