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This blog series is designed to help you to prepare both your mind and body for pregnancy and to survive the time it takes you to get you to this point. It is based on my professional and personal experience of infertility, I am a mother of 4 boys, all conceived after the age of 35, the last at 44, despite being told that I was infertile.

The series will consist of 9 blogs and accompanying YouTube videos and will cover what to eat, what supplements to take, how to maximise your chances of conception, the right work-life balance to supercharge your fertility, complementary approaches, emotional well-being, surviving miscarriage and trying to conceive over 35yrs. This blog series will give you the key facts and highlights, but for more details check out the book I have written to accompany this series

How To Get Pregnant Fast – 9 Step Fertility Series

Step 1 – Getting Started This blog post is designed to help you to prepare both your mind and body for pregnancy and to survive the time it takes you to get you to this point.  It is based on my professional and personal experience of infertility, I am a mother of 4 boys, all conceived after the age of 35, the last at 44, despite being told that I was infertile. The post consists of 9 steps and the accompanying YouTube videos (all found in the playlist above) and […]...

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6 Tips To Help You Cope With Miscarriage

   Having a miscarriage is devasting. You have lost a baby and where ever it was in its development when you miscarried, you will need to allow yourself to grieve for that life and work out how to move forward without that baby. In this article I am going to share 6 tips to help you do this. 1. Remember you can conceive. You will hear this a lot and it will do little to console you. However, it is important to find a way to hold on to […]...

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Coping With a Miscarriage & Depression – Behind The Mask

 I am not starting from the beginning of my story, in fact I am starting with the most recent of years. I will go back to the start in a future blog post. After 5 years of being convinced that I would never have a second child after the mental problems I faced following the birth of my daughter, my husband and I finally made the big decision to try for another baby. After a short period of trying we found out that I was indeed expecting our second […]...

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Can Therapy Improve Your Chances Of Getting Pregnant?

Studies have shown that infertility patients experience similar levels of depression as cancer patients. This suggests that struggling to get pregnant can be as emotionally demanding as dealing with a life threatening illness. So if you are having problems trying to conceive (TTC) it is important to know that feeling depressed as a result of this is a normal response. However, just because it is a normal response does not mean that there is nothing that you can do about it. In her book ‘Conquering Infertility’ the psychologist Dr Alice […]...

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