How To Choose Good Quality Supplementation And Herbal Medicines To Optimise your Fertility

November 19th, 2009 3 Comments

Preparing for a healthy conception is paramount and nutritional supplementation can play a big role in this. So with the amount of options available in the market today, how do you choose? Well, simply: You don’t! Let me explain. This is a choice that hopefully will be made for you by a competent and qualified naturopathic practitioner with experience in treating couples in your situation. Sometimes the temptation to self-prescribe is overwhelming, particularly when there is some much...


How To Increase Your Natural Fertility By 81%

October 29th, 2009 1 Comment

Hoping to start a family? It takes approximately 120 days for healthy sperm to form and the egg to mature. The health of your egg and sperm today, is the result of your actions and all the things you have been exposed to especially during the previous 16 weeks. Hence the health and viability of your sperm or egg — and their ability to create a healthy pregnancy, in four months from now is the product of the changes you implement now. What does it take to boost your fertility? Optimum...


The Secret to Nourishing Your Fertility

October 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Irrespective of your medical history, how you arrived at this point, or your future conception plans, you, you partner and your prospective child can and will benefit from implementing a healthy diet to the best of your ability for at least the 120 days required for the maturation of the egg and the formation of the sperm before a healthy conception can take place. Regardless of whether you are aiming to overcome fertility problems, or simply would like to do everything you can to have the healthiest...


How Fear Affects Fertility and Labour And What You Can Do To Change The Odds

October 1st, 2009 No Comments

Most of us are aware of the basic mind and body responses fear triggers within our physiology—particularly the well known adrenaline rush. Anything that requires the body to adapt in the long term is perceived as stressful and will have a negative effect on fertility and labour. Our fight/flight/freeze response is activated and blood flow is directed towards the limbs and away from vital organs that need protection. The uterus is not exempt. Excessive adrenalin levels negatively affect...


How to Eat The Fertile Way When Trying To Get Pregnant Fast

September 24th, 2009 5 Comments

The power of completely focusing on the task at hand also applies to eating when you are trying to get pregnant. Eating should be a sacred time, a time to connect with yourself, your body and the very means of your nourishment—your food, so you can get the most out of it. This might sound way over the top but it actually makes a whole lot of sense. Isn’t it true that when you are not focused on a task and are distracted by your surroundings, no matter how hard you try, you will not complete...


131 Ways To Put More Fun Into Your Life When Trying To Get Pregnant

September 17th, 2009 No Comments

It’s so easy to get caught up in the seriousness of how to get pregnant. However creating a baby is exactly that—a creative process. Sometimes to relax your focus from the outcome and start having more fun in the process is the very thing that can speed up the ‘waiting’. So I thought I’d compile a list of fun, healthy ‘hobbies’ and activities to fuel your own ideas and help you get started with having more joy whilst trying to conceive and create the healthy baby of your dreams. Aerobics; Amateur...