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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]
Fertility refers to the ability to become pregnant (or effect a pregnancy) through normal sexual activity, while infertility is defined as the failure to conceive after one year of regular intercourse without contraception. Infertility can affect either the male or the female partner and can have a number of [...]
It is easy to lose focus of every other aspect of life when trying to have a baby. For many people ‘baby-making’ becomes the sole driver of their lives obscuring everything else (sometimes even the most important part of it all: the relationship). In this area of your life, as in any other area balance [...]
