Fertility-Fit Weekly Brief
how to find and fix what's stopping you from getting pregnant
Some things aren't meant to be forgotten
Today the country falls quiet.
At eleven o'clock, people stop. On high streets, in churches, around war memorials in villages like ours, there's a silence held for those who gave their lives in service. Poppies pinned to coats. Names read aloud. A generation that chose to stand for something, rem...
Nov 08, 2026
"Everything looks normal"
You've heard it so many times now it's almost lost its meaning.
Your bloods are normal. Your cycles are regular. You fall pregnant without much trouble. On paper, there's nothing wrong with you.
And yet here you are. Grieving again. Holding a loss nobody can explain, with a folder full of results...
Oct 25, 2026
Your pregnancy ends on a Tuesday. By Thursday, you're back at work.
Your pregnancy ends on a Tuesday.
By Thursday, you're expected back at your desk.
There are emails waiting. A meeting at ten. A colleague asking if you had a nice weekend. And you sit there, still bleeding, still reeling, trying to work out how on earth you're meant to carry on as if nothing has ...
Oct 18, 2026
Pregnancy loss changes how you see everything.
Before your miscarriage, seeing a positive pregnancy test might have been one of the happiest moments of your life.
You'd start working out your due date. Wondering when you'd tell your family. Imagining what the next nine months might look like.
But after you've experienced pregnancy loss, that ...
Oct 11, 2026
You might not think you have a gut problem.
You might not think you have a gut problem.
That was the interesting part.
I was working with a woman who'd experienced recurrent miscarriage, and when we first talked about her gut health, she didn't really think she had any issues.
But her symptom questionnaire told me there were a few things w...
Oct 04, 2026
She mentioned this one symptom and my brain immediately went somewhere else
I had a call with a woman this weekend.
We were talking through her history when she said, almost in passing:
“I have explosive bowel movements.”
And my brain immediately went:
We need to look at her gut.
Not because that one symptom gives me an answer for why she has experienced miscarriage.
It ...
Sep 27, 2026
You finally get some answers. Then you have more questions.
You finally get some answers.
And somehow, you have more questions.
A blood result comes back.
Something is slightly outside the range.
A scan mentions something you weren't expecting.
A test comes back normal, which should feel reassuring, except you're still left wondering why this keeps happen...
Sep 20, 2026
You don't get to just feel excited anymore
You don't get to just feel excited anymore.
A positive pregnancy test used to mean something quite simple.
You're pregnant.
But after you’ve experienced miscarriage more than once, it can mean twenty things at once.
You look at the second line and your heart skips a beat and your mind starts work...
Sep 13, 2026
You start going back over everything
You start going back over everything.
The coffee you drank that morning.
The workout you did before you knew.
The week at work when you barely stopped.
The glass of wine.
The flight.
The hot bath.
The supplement you forgot to take.
Something somebody mentioned in a fertility group at 11pm that yo...
Sep 06, 2026
The question I wish more women asked before IVF
One of the questions I hear most often is,
"What should I be taking before IVF?"
It's a good question.
But it isn't the first question I'd ask.
I'd start here instead.
"What does my body actually need?"
Those are very different conversations.
Because no two women arrive at IVF having walked the s...
Aug 30, 2026
The hardest part isn't waiting. It's deciding what to do next.
After every setback comes another decision.
Do we try again straight away?
Do we wait?
Do we investigate?
Do we save our money?
Do we spend it privately?
Do we move to IVF?
Do we keep hoping?
Most people think fertility is about patience.
I don't think it is.
I think it's about decision fatigue.
...
Aug 23, 2026
The supplement cupboard that made me stop and think
A client recently laughed as she opened her kitchen cupboard.
"I don't even want to tell you how much money is in here."
Inside were bottles of supplements she'd collected over the last two years.
Some she'd seen on Instagram.
Some had been recommended by friends.
Others she'd bought because she ...
Aug 16, 2026
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