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To follow on from my previous post, light came back into all our lives. Two years after mum lost her stillborn son this little person arrived. The look on mums face as she was handed this little bundle at the airport who had come all the way from Vietnam says it all and she couldn’t have loved this beautiful baby any more. Her son is always with her and maybe he watches over our sister, you never know. #adoption #adoptionannouncement #adoptionawareness #adoptionstory #adoptionrocks #adoptionislove #adoption #stillbirth #stillbirthawareness #babyloss #babylossawareness #neonatalloss #love

To follow on from my previous post, light came back into all our lives. Two years after mum lost her stillborn son this little person arrived. The look on mums face as she was handed this little bundle at the airport who had come all the way from Vietnam says it all and she couldn’t have loved this beautiful baby any more. Her son is always with her and maybe he watches over our sister, you never know. #adoption #adoptionannouncement #adoptionawareness #adoptionstory #adoptionrocks #adoptionislove #adoption #stillbirth #stillbirthawareness #babyloss #babylossawareness #neonatalloss #love

Today’s lunch - a bit boring I know - oh God not avocado and poached egg again! But it really is a marriage made in heaven and keeps me going til supper easily. I love heavy solid dark Danish rye bread, nothing else fits the bill. And eggs are such a brilliant food for fertility. An egg white omelette - why would you even consider it? 😱. It’s the yolk that’s top here for fertility, stuffed with lutein (think luteinising hormone), vitamin A, choline for peachy egg membranes, iron and yes the whites do give you protein. And all these are brilliant for the brain too. Perfect quick lunch. #fertility #infertility #ivf #ivficsi #ivfdiet #ivffood #fertilitydiet #infertilitydiet #protein #vitamina #choline #eggs #avocado #ryebread #darkryebread #mediterraneandiet #scandidiet #brainfood #lutein

Today’s lunch - a bit boring I know - oh God not avocado and poached egg again! But it really is a marriage made in heaven and keeps me going til supper easily. I love heavy solid dark Danish rye bread, nothing else fits the bill. And eggs are such a brilliant food for fertility. An egg white omelette - why would you even consider it? 😱. It’s the yolk that’s top here for fertility, stuffed with lutein (think luteinising hormone), vitamin A, choline for peachy egg membranes, iron and yes the whites do give you protein. And all these are brilliant for the brain too. Perfect quick lunch. #fertility #infertility #ivf #ivficsi #ivfdiet #ivffood #fertilitydiet #infertilitydiet #protein #vitamina #choline #eggs #avocado #ryebread #darkryebread #mediterraneandiet #scandidiet #brainfood #lutein

It’s Stillbirth Awareness Month and in this heartbreaking month of remembering lives that were never fulfilled I want to honour my wonderful mum whose baby boy was stillborn. He stopped moving at 38 weeks and she carried him until she gave birth. The obstetrician ‘forgot’ she was rhesus negative and at that time needed a transfusion (he had ‘remembered ‘ that with my sister). Then she came home and stayed in her room for a long time. This was the 1960s, no funeral, no counselling, no talking about it, nothing ever. My dad never spoke about it. My sister and I knew nothing except there was no baby now. I cry every time I think about what happened to her. But then they adopted my sister and she was a balm for mum and all of us but we never forget the son and brother who didn’t come home. #stillbirth #stillbirthawareness #stillbirthsupport #babylossawarenessmonth #stillbirthbreakthesilence #neonataldeath #stillbirthcounselling #babyloss #babylossawareness #babylosssupport

It’s Stillbirth Awareness Month and in this heartbreaking month of remembering lives that were never fulfilled I want to honour my wonderful mum whose baby boy was stillborn. He stopped moving at 38 weeks and she carried him until she gave birth. The obstetrician ‘forgot’ she was rhesus negative and at that time needed a transfusion (he had ‘remembered ‘ that with my sister). Then she came home and stayed in her room for a long time. This was the 1960s, no funeral, no counselling, no talking about it, nothing ever. My dad never spoke about it. My sister and I knew nothing except there was no baby now. I cry every time I think about what happened to her. But then they adopted my sister and she was a balm for mum and all of us but we never forget the son and brother who didn’t come home. #stillbirth #stillbirthawareness #stillbirthsupport #babylossawarenessmonth #stillbirthbreakthesilence #neonataldeath #stillbirthcounselling #babyloss #babylossawareness #babylosssupport

Good sleep seems to be in short supply for so many of my clients. Stress and worry over fertility issues, overwork, social media and noise and light pollution all combine to disrupt the essential cycles of sleep. Maintaining our body clock, the circadian rhythms is just essential for all our hormones to work properly and for cell repair including sperm and eggs. And for just sorting out our brains! So anything that helps is a very fine thing. #sleep #insomnia #circadianrhythm #bodyclock #hormones #stress #cellrepair #ivficsi #fertility #infertility #healthylifestyle

Good sleep seems to be in short supply for so many of my clients. Stress and worry over fertility issues, overwork, social media and noise and light pollution all combine to disrupt the essential cycles of sleep. Maintaining our body clock, the circadian rhythms is just essential for all our hormones to work properly and for cell repair including sperm and eggs. And for just sorting out our brains! So anything that helps is a very fine thing. #sleep #insomnia #circadianrhythm #bodyclock #hormones #stress #cellrepair #ivficsi #fertility #infertility #healthylifestyle

Homemade baked beans, cannellini or butter beans in a concentrated tomato sauce, with a little bit of garlic and chilli. The sauce is just reduced organic passata with tomato paste and then slowly cooked in my lovely slow cooker. I could have cooked it for longer I think but it was pretty yummy. A great way of getting lycopene which is brilliant for sperm and the prostate gland into the diet and vegetarian protein and blood sugar balancing bean protein too, cheap and healthy. Just needs some greens too! #mediterraneandiet #bakedbeans #beanrecipes #healthydiet #fertility #infertility #fertilitydiet #infertilitydiet #ivf #ivficsi

Homemade baked beans, cannellini or butter beans in a concentrated tomato sauce, with a little bit of garlic and chilli. The sauce is just reduced organic passata with tomato paste and then slowly cooked in my lovely slow cooker. I could have cooked it for longer I think but it was pretty yummy. A great way of getting lycopene which is brilliant for sperm and the prostate gland into the diet and vegetarian protein and blood sugar balancing bean protein too, cheap and healthy. Just needs some greens too! #mediterraneandiet #bakedbeans #beanrecipes #healthydiet #fertility #infertility #fertilitydiet #infertilitydiet #ivf #ivficsi

I love listening to the WH podcast as there is always something interesting on. Today the utterly glorious Jo Brand was talking about her new book and just listening to her discussing feminism, make-up, looks, comedy and life was a proper tonic! She has such a great attitude it made me feel strong and empowered just listening to her! ❤️#ivfjourney #ivf #ivficsi #infertility #fertility #radio4 #womanshour #podcasts #feminism #fatshaming #femaleempowerment

Today is World Mental Health Day and certainly infertility brings with it so much anxiety and stress and for some, depression. Put very simply infertility in women may cause depression but in men depression may cause infertility AND the infertility then reinforces the depression. A double blow. But the depression itself many not be a direct cause of the infertility. Depression can cause a lack of interest in sex, a lowered libido and erectile dysfunction, the desire to sleep all the time or chronic insomnia and commonly prescribed antidepressants may cause sperm problems and also a decreased libido. It’s a vicious circle. So if this is happening to you, early help is essential. Seeing your GP, counselling, Mindfulness, Viagra or the more expensive Cialis (treatment for erectile dysfunction) can all help. Women are just better at sharing our experiences and talking about ‘it’, how we feel when so and so announces yet another pregnancy (like murdering them and then having a nervous breakdown!) But men will suffer in silence. The more we can all talk about both depression and infertility the better.#depression #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #infertility #maleinfertility #maledepression #sperm #ivfjourney #ivficsi #infertilitystress #infertilitydepression

Today is World Mental Health Day and certainly infertility brings with it so much anxiety and stress and for some, depression. Put very simply infertility in women may cause depression but in men depression may cause infertility AND the infertility then reinforces the depression. A double blow. But the depression itself many not be a direct cause of the infertility. Depression can cause a lack of interest in sex, a lowered libido and erectile dysfunction, the desire to sleep all the time or chronic insomnia and commonly prescribed antidepressants may cause sperm problems and also a decreased libido. It’s a vicious circle. So if this is happening to you, early help is essential. Seeing your GP, counselling, Mindfulness, Viagra or the more expensive Cialis (treatment for erectile dysfunction) can all help. Women are just better at sharing our experiences and talking about ‘it’, how we feel when so and so announces yet another pregnancy (like murdering them and then having a nervous breakdown!) But men will suffer in silence. The more we can all talk about both depression and infertility the better.#depression #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #infertility #maleinfertility #maledepression #sperm #ivfjourney #ivficsi #infertilitystress #infertilitydepression

I love companies like this called Oddbox, that provide useful things for us at a low cost and save food waste and give spare food to charities that would otherwise be wasted. What’s not to love? And it is soup season, anything can go in a soup so the ugly ducklings of the vegetable kingdom are stars in a nourishing warming soup. Add some protein, shredded chicken, lentils or beans, a good stock pot, some herbs like thyme (brilliant for sore throats), chilli, ginger and turmeric and batch cook, freezing portions for taking to work in a food flask or heating up at work. Just the best lunch in Winter.#ivficsi #soup #wintersoup #winterlunch #foodwaste #foodwastegirl #vegetables #vegetablesoup #mediterraneandiet #healthydiet #healthyfood #foodcharities #wonkyveg #wonkyvegbox #fertility #fertilitydiet #infertility #infertilitydiet #fertilityfoods #packedlunch #winterfood #winterfoods #immuneboosting #ecofriendly #vegdelivery #vegdelivery

I love companies like this called Oddbox, that provide useful things for us at a low cost and save food waste and give spare food to charities that would otherwise be wasted. What’s not to love? And it is soup season, anything can go in a soup so the ugly ducklings of the vegetable kingdom are stars in a nourishing warming soup. Add some protein, shredded chicken, lentils or beans, a good stock pot, some herbs like thyme (brilliant for sore throats), chilli, ginger and turmeric and batch cook, freezing portions for taking to work in a food flask or heating up at work. Just the best lunch in Winter.#ivficsi #soup #wintersoup #winterlunch #foodwaste #foodwastegirl #vegetables #vegetablesoup #mediterraneandiet #healthydiet #healthyfood #foodcharities #wonkyveg #wonkyvegbox #fertility #fertilitydiet #infertility #infertilitydiet #fertilityfoods #packedlunch #winterfood #winterfoods #immuneboosting #ecofriendly #vegdelivery #vegdelivery

To follow on from my previous post, light came back into all our lives. Two years after mum lost her stillborn son this little person arrived. The look on mums face as she was handed this little bundle at the airport who had come all the way from Vietnam says it all and she couldn’t have loved this beautiful baby any more. Her son is always with her and maybe he watches over our sister, you never know. #adoption #adoptionannouncement #adoptionawareness #adoptionstory #adoptionrocks #adoptionislove #adoption #stillbirth #stillbirthawareness #babyloss #babylossawareness #neonatalloss #love

Today’s lunch - a bit boring I know - oh God not avocado and poached egg again! But it really is a marriage made in heaven and keeps me going til supper easily. I love heavy solid dark Danish rye bread, nothing else fits the bill. And eggs are such a brilliant food for fertility. An egg white omelette - why would you even consider it? 😱. It’s the yolk that’s top here for fertility, stuffed with lutein (think luteinising hormone), vitamin A, choline for peachy egg membranes, iron and yes the whites do give you protein. And all these are brilliant for the brain too. Perfect quick lunch. #fertility #infertility #ivf #ivficsi #ivfdiet #ivffood #fertilitydiet #infertilitydiet #protein #vitamina #choline #eggs #avocado #ryebread #darkryebread #mediterraneandiet #scandidiet #brainfood #lutein

It’s Stillbirth Awareness Month and in this heartbreaking month of remembering lives that were never fulfilled I want to honour my wonderful mum whose baby boy was stillborn. He stopped moving at 38 weeks and she carried him until she gave birth. The obstetrician ‘forgot’ she was rhesus negative and at that time needed a transfusion (he had ‘remembered ‘ that with my sister). Then she came home and stayed in her room for a long time. This was the 1960s, no funeral, no counselling, no talking about it, nothing ever. My dad never spoke about it. My sister and I knew nothing except there was no baby now. I cry every time I think about what happened to her. But then they adopted my sister and she was a balm for mum and all of us but we never forget the son and brother who didn’t come home. #stillbirth #stillbirthawareness #stillbirthsupport #babylossawarenessmonth #stillbirthbreakthesilence #neonataldeath #stillbirthcounselling #babyloss #babylossawareness #babylosssupport

Good sleep seems to be in short supply for so many of my clients. Stress and worry over fertility issues, overwork, social media and noise and light pollution all combine to disrupt the essential cycles of sleep. Maintaining our body clock, the circadian rhythms is just essential for all our hormones to work properly and for cell repair including sperm and eggs. And for just sorting out our brains! So anything that helps is a very fine thing. #sleep #insomnia #circadianrhythm #bodyclock #hormones #stress #cellrepair #ivficsi #fertility #infertility #healthylifestyle

Homemade baked beans, cannellini or butter beans in a concentrated tomato sauce, with a little bit of garlic and chilli. The sauce is just reduced organic passata with tomato paste and then slowly cooked in my lovely slow cooker. I could have cooked it for longer I think but it was pretty yummy. A great way of getting lycopene which is brilliant for sperm and the prostate gland into the diet and vegetarian protein and blood sugar balancing bean protein too, cheap and healthy. Just needs some greens too! #mediterraneandiet #bakedbeans #beanrecipes #healthydiet #fertility #infertility #fertilitydiet #infertilitydiet #ivf #ivficsi

Today is World Mental Health Day and certainly infertility brings with it so much anxiety and stress and for some, depression. Put very simply infertility in women may cause depression but in men depression may cause infertility AND the infertility then reinforces the depression. A double blow. But the depression itself many not be a direct cause of the infertility. Depression can cause a lack of interest in sex, a lowered libido and erectile dysfunction, the desire to sleep all the time or chronic insomnia and commonly prescribed antidepressants may cause sperm problems and also a decreased libido. It’s a vicious circle. So if this is happening to you, early help is essential. Seeing your GP, counselling, Mindfulness, Viagra or the more expensive Cialis (treatment for erectile dysfunction) can all help. Women are just better at sharing our experiences and talking about ‘it’, how we feel when so and so announces yet another pregnancy (like murdering them and then having a nervous breakdown!) But men will suffer in silence. The more we can all talk about both depression and infertility the better.#depression #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #infertility #maleinfertility #maledepression #sperm #ivfjourney #ivficsi #infertilitystress #infertilitydepression

I love companies like this called Oddbox, that provide useful things for us at a low cost and save food waste and give spare food to charities that would otherwise be wasted. What’s not to love? And it is soup season, anything can go in a soup so the ugly ducklings of the vegetable kingdom are stars in a nourishing warming soup. Add some protein, shredded chicken, lentils or beans, a good stock pot, some herbs like thyme (brilliant for sore throats), chilli, ginger and turmeric and batch cook, freezing portions for taking to work in a food flask or heating up at work. Just the best lunch in Winter.#ivficsi #soup #wintersoup #winterlunch #foodwaste #foodwastegirl #vegetables #vegetablesoup #mediterraneandiet #healthydiet #healthyfood #foodcharities #wonkyveg #wonkyvegbox #fertility #fertilitydiet #infertility #infertilitydiet #fertilityfoods #packedlunch #winterfood #winterfoods #immuneboosting #ecofriendly #vegdelivery #vegdelivery

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A guide to Fertility-Friendly Holiday Packing on my new website https://t.co/gsedoibmgv #fertiliy #nutrition… https://t.co/GtTYc9AZm8
about 2 months ago
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One day I will make this Christmas wreath, so beautiful. https://t.co/sjnEaQBCFT
about 10 months ago
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For anyone going through IVF, you are not alone, see this funny, sweet and useful https://t.co/EiaBBrEo3i
about 11 months ago
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Recent headlines of falling #sperm counts will raise awareness that #infertility is about men too so get checked out before turning to #IVF
about a year ago
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I love everything about this brand; forget soggy berries in Winter https://t.co/8Ejq7s5CO5 Lovely recipes too https://t.co/DVCFD3KxOB
about a year ago

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