PCOS – Busting The Myths and Clarifying The Facts!

PCOS, or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, is a very common condition that affects approximately six to eight percent of fertile girls and women globally. It's related to an increase in male hormones, which we call androgens. These androgens cause symptoms including skin issues (oiliness, acne and skin tags) and weight gain. They also cause tiny fluid…

ByDr Raewyn Teirney11/09/20210Comments

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Egg Freezing And Future Fertility

Egg Freezing is an increasingly common way for Australian women to try to future proof fertility. According to Fertility Specialist and Gynaecologist, Dr. Raewyn Teirney, health reasons still make up the majority of her patients who visit her for egg freezing, but a growing number are seeing her for personal and social reasons. Here, she explains the…

ByDr Raewyn Teirney29/11/20200Comments

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IVF Debate And The Miracle Pregnancy Myth

The Voice host was told in no uncertain terms by her doctor that without using donor eggs her chance of falling pregnant through IVF at 49 was almost zero. “He said no woman aged 45 or over had been successful in carrying a baby to term using her own eggs. It was my decision to proceed…

ByThe Carousel31/05/20160Comments

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The ‘Knocked Up’ Smoothie Pregnant Celebs Crave

Famous mums-to-be like Molly Sims and Chrissy Teigen have been getting straw-happy over the appropriately named Knocked Up, a concoction created in collaboration with uber-trendy organic café Beaming and LA-based doula, healer, and pregnancy coach Lori Bregman. A follow-up to Lori’s equally popular fertility potion, The Knocked Up smoothie is filled with superfood staples like avocados, goji berries, and almond butter. It also contains ingredients specifically…

ByThe Carousel05/04/20160Comments

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12 Steps To Empowered Fertility

Sydney based life coach and counsellor Claire Hall has helped countless women through their highly emotional fertility journey. In her new book, Empowered Fertility: A Practical Twelve-Step Guide, written with Dr Devora Lieberman, Claire outlines the common hurdles and issues women face in a helpful guide designed to empower women dealing with infertility and fertility treatment. Here,…

ByFranki Hobson09/02/20160Comments

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Sonia Kruger Celebrates First Year As A New Mum

The popular TV host says it wasn’t until her miracle daughter Maggie arrived on January 24, 2015, that she experienced such a profound sense of love. “I listened to people talking about it when I didn’t have children, about how amazing it is and how it changes your life,” Sonia, 50, tells the Sunday Telegraph just…

ByThe Carousel25/01/20160Comments

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How the Moon Can Assist Your Fertility

The concept of a woman’s menstrual cycle aligning with the moon isn’t a particularly new one, in fact, it’s been around for as long as women have walked the Earth. And before you take an internal eye roll and mutter something along the lines of ‘hippy’ and ‘woo-woo’ just take a moment to riddle me…

ByThe Carousel23/11/20150Comments

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Fertility & IVF ‘Fairy Tales’ May Be Costing Women Their Dreams Of Having A Family

Prohibitive cost, waning success rates and poor accessibility aren't the only reasons women are steering away from IVF treatments. According to new research*, a whopping 85% of Australian women still believe there is a social stigma associated with IVF. More shockingly, nearly half of us perceive IVF treatment as having ' failed somehow as a woman'. A new…

ByYvette Le Grew09/10/20142Comments