Fertility bloodwork: 7 hormones which are most important for fertility This happens to me often: a woman writes to me and tells me all about her fertility journey and asks a ton of questions. Then I say: all right, but could you please send me your recent bloodwork? Then the woman sends me a ton…
How to know if your guy wants to commit and have a baby with you When I coach women over 35 there is the side-effect that I get to hear a lot about their relationships. Eventually I noticed that some patterns repeat quite often. In this post I would like to address the mistakes which women…
Diagnosed with low ovarian reserve? A little story about how this blog started. Getting pregnant always looked like something that happens easily, so I’ve spent decades believing that (and doing everything possible to make it not happen). When I only think of all the sex I did not enjoy because I was subconsciously busy calculating…
What is fertility testing? In reality, fertility of a women is a continuum and not something that categorizes well. A certain value from a blood test can cause feelings of panic by placing you in a particular category (“low responder”! “high FSH”! “diminished ovarian reserve”!) whereas in reality there is very little difference in fertility…
Five simple lifestyle interventions which will protect your fertility and egg health If I had to pick only five lifestyle interventions in terms of being simple to implement and bringing immediate and measurable benefits to women over 35 who are trying to get pregnant, these would be: 1. Stop smoking. Smokers are 30 percent less…
About Ana who pissed me off (but then got pregnant anyway) Ana (the name changed) is one of the readers of my blog who managed to get pregnant by changing her diet and taking supplements to improve egg quality. What makes Ana special is that at our first contact she managed to really piss me…
What I would tell my daughter when she gets her first period Young women are often poorly informed about the impact of age on fertility and there is hardly anything new about that. But, if you now think I am talking only about being aware that one-third of women over 35 are not able to…
Massage: Does it help women to get pregnant faster? In terms of increasing fertility in women who are trying to get pregnant, three types of massage are usually discussed: Western massage is the classic kind of massage, which focuses on kneading the muscles. Thai massage generally applies focused pressure on the body. There are many subforms,…
Should you use acupuncture when trying to get pregnant? Acupuncture comes from Oriental medicine, which is all about achieving and maintaining balance. When we are in balance or in flow, as Westerners prefer to say, our organs work well and are synchronized with each other, our sleep is restful, we are resilient, recover easily from…
Mothers at 35 plus: What medicine and society still need to learn about them My grandmother delivered my dad after she turned 40. My dad was her tenth and last child (seven of ten survived to adulthood). Since my grandma’s oldest daughter was already married, everyone in the small village in the Balkan mountains…