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 thought,
"It can't hurt."
When you're trying to conceive, especially after loss, it's completely und...
The biggest mistake I see after "everything came back normal"
This week I was looking through a client's blood results.
Every box had a reassuring tick beside it.
Normal.
Normal.
Normal.
If you looked at those results on their own, you'd think there wasn't much else to discuss.
But she'd had three miscarriages.
That's the problem with the word normal.
It tells you where each result sits compared with a reference range.
It doesn't always tell you whether i...
What I learned at a wedding this week that applies to your IVF prep
I went to a wedding this week that was planned in four months.
Not four months of "let's get engaged and start thinking about it." Four months, full stop. No save the dates sent a year out. No twelve month venue waitlist. It was on a Sunday, because that was the date they could get everyone who mattered in the room. They made compromises everywhere. And it was one of the best weddings I've been...
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