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  • How does spotting affect fertility?
    2023/07/03

    Hello and welcome to this episode of the Fertility Rewire podcast. Now, it's been a while. Again, I've taken a break.  I've actually really, I've got quite a neck injury and I've been wearing a neck brace and have had the same sort of battle with my healthcare that I know you face a lot with your fertility, but you know, I've stuck with it. I've got to the route that I need to be taking now and things are improving massively.

    So I'm back doing everything that I was before. So you may have seen me on TikTok more recently talking quite a lot about spotting and signs of low progesterone. And these videos have created lots of conversations with people getting in touch with me. And we are really starting, I think in the fertility community. 

    And when I say that, I mean you guys who are trying to get pregnant really starting to try and understand, I hope, about progesterone and people are starting to see it as a potential reason why they're not falling pregnant. Now it may well be, but like all things, it's a symptom and we need to look for the cause. So if your progesterone is low, then there will be a reason for that. And the reason in itself might not only affect progesterone, but it may affect other aspects of fertility. So a sticking plaster is not necessarily what we need now. So I'm going to explore in this episode with you a little bit more about spotting because I know that you'll be told that spotting is normal potentially. And you know what? For some people it is. But we have this gauge of normal, don't we?

    So, if you are spotting, join me by listening into this episode listened, and think what factors might be there. If you need any more support on how to find that out, then please get in touch. You can get in touch by email kat@fertility rewire.com. You can get in touch with me via socials on Instagram and TikTok. It would be great to hear from you and also if you've got any thoughts on the podcast, you know, how are you enjoying it, what more would you like me to do? Is there anything specific you want me to cover? Then please get in touch. But as ever, take care.

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    27 分
  • Hope, support and saving the environment when trying to get pregnant with Lara Solomon Hoopsy
    2023/01/18

    It was a great pleasure to chat with Hoopsy Founder Lara Solomon in this episode where we discuss hope, support and saving the environment when trying to get pregnant.

     

    Hoopsy provide resources and information to those trying to conceive, as well as an eco friendly pregnancy test, made from99% paper (that doesn’t get wet) and is 99% accurate at a comparable cost to plastic single use tests.

     

    Lara talks about her realization about the amount of single use plastic used during her own IVF treatment and it prompted her to start investigating the possibility of an eco friendly version.

     

    We also discussed the upcoming ovulation tests, and an online support community coming in February.

     

    If you wanted to get a free sample of the pregnancy test, you can do so via the link below

    https://www.hoopsy.co/pregnancy-test-giveaway

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    24 分
  • How to deal with the Holidays
    2022/12/20

    It can be a time of dread and fear cant it?

     

    Family gatherings, the questions you know you'll get asked.  But what will you reply?  Do you smile politely, still keeping this very personal subject to yourself, or do you let them have it: None of your business!

     

    Its a time for family, and the sense of loss can be huge, overwhelming even.

     

    I want to give a sense of hope this christmas. My wish for you is that you start to understand what could be affecting your fertility, that you have can put steps into place to enhance your fertility and ease the emotional burden you carry.

     

    I've helped 100’s of couples achieve this and I’m sharing my knowledge and proven treatment plan with you in the digital packs.  And for a limited time offer you can access free support from me.

     

    You can access the digital pack here

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    11 分
  • Feeling lost when trying to get pregnant
    2022/12/09

    Feeling lost is something I hear a lot from my clients and people i speak to about their fertility struggles.

     

    The thing about being lost is that we are often looking for the way out, but before we can truly do that we have to know where we are.

     

    I discuss how we can do that, how we need trusted sources and once we know where we are we can get help to get to where we need to go, or help to know where we need to be going next.

     

    I also announce the launch of the new Conceivable digital programme 


    You can get your hands on that here, and fo a limited time I’m trialing a free support option too (DEC 2022)

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    16 分
  • Are you motivated to get pregnant?
    2022/10/20

    It’s hard to stick to all the things that you are trying to improve your chances of getting pregnant, especially if you don’t really know why you are doing them or know if they are working.

     

    I was recently called out on this a bit with my own business.  What was my motivation?

    Well my motivation was to of course get clients that I can help, and to educate and advocate for couples through my podcast.

     

    So why haven't recorded an episode for months?

     

    Well I've been poorly, my kids have been poorly, I've had covid, I've had migraines, I have my clients and limited time.

     

    Was I feeling  deflated, do I lack motivation?

     

    Well actually what I have been lacking, is discipline and I talk about this in this episode regarding your fertility journey?

     

    How can you be motivated when you don’t see results?

    Are you looking for the big result and not noticing the micro results that are adding up?

     

    Do you understand, trust and believe in the actions you are taking, or is this lind faith because someone else has done this?

     

    Are your stress/worry levels so high due toall the things you are trying with no results, of having no answers?

     

    When you trust in the process or the person advising the process, you can get discipline your actions because you trust them?

     

    Well this is how I support my clients, every day.

     

    Click here for my free guide 6 things stopping yu getting pregnant

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    11 分
  • The stress of monitoring ovulation
    2022/07/22
    It's a viscous circle: stress affects ovulation, and as you no doubt no ovulations affects stress.  As a result it can also impact other areas of your life. In this episode I discuss the stress of ovulation, why it impacts your fertility and what you can do about it. So there is potentially a lot, you don't know, but there is a lot you can know. So if you want to get more answers, if you want to get the answers or even find the right questions, so you can get the answers, then I can help with that. So if that's something you want to reach out, get in touch, can get me on socials at fertility, rewire or kat@fertilityrewire.com or book an insight call. TRANSCRIPT In this episode, I'm going to talk about the stress of ovulation, which if you've been trying to get pregnant, whether that be with your first, second or further children, you may well really identify with this and see this as being an issue. So my first question for you is, do you know when you ovulate, have you always known when you ovulate, are you still unsure or have you recently found out that it's not at all when you thought it was.  I often talk about how, what we're taught in school. Isn't actually relevant to what we need to know when it comes to trying to get pregnant. We often have this idea that we all ovulate on day 14 in the holy grail of 28 day cycle. But actually, even if you had a 28 day cycle, it's not guaranteed that you would ovulate on day 14. I know some people have been informed from a medical professional that they will ovulate 14 days after their period starts. And other people have been told that they will ovulate 14 days before their period starts. None of which is a guarantee, none of which is true for all. I have worked with some clients over the years where the only issue in their fertility journey was that they weren't completely sure when they were ovulating. Often it's that they were ovulating a lot later than they thought. So it was when working together quite a quick win for many. And sometimes it can be as simple as that, but we know it's not, we know, as I've said many times that there are many, many factors involved. And we also know that we are not looking for further information when we're going through the doctors necessarily.                                 Ovulation signs So do you know your signs of ovulation? Now, this is something I discussed earlier in the podcast in episode six. So that's worth the listen, if you haven't already listened to that one where I talk about ovulation signs.  So naturally, when you ovulate, think about us as animals, not as logical overthinking at times, humans, but as animals, your body tells you it's time to reproduce. So your libido will be increased and you will have changing cervical mucus that will change over this fertility window. The type of mucus varies as we get nearer to ovulation, it's very choosy early on as to which sperm it let through. And the nearer to ovulation, as I've talked about in the episode six, it's going to let anything through at this point. So it is important to know what that mucus means and what it demonstrates.                                 Stress and Ovulation We know that stress, anxiety, worry, fear affects ovulation. It's a very natural process in the body. It's a fantastic process to keep you safe because ultimately the first job of your body is for you to stay alive. It's second job is for you to have sustenance for you to continue. So to stay alive in the moment of danger and then to stay healthy and alive. And it's third job, and this is a hierarchy is procreation. So unless those other two are in place, as I've talked about before, procreation is going to come very, very low down on the list. So at times when your body feels you are in imminent danger in the past, this would be with predators. And I talk about tigers a lot, and Tiger Taming is something I work with my clients. It's a way to address this stress, worry, anxiety, and fear, and bring your body back into balance and help your fertility.                                 So, when you are faced with a tiger, then your body, your hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal access is working to ensure that everything is put into staying alive. And when everything is put into staying alive, then other aspects are switched down or switched off and ovulation can be one of these. Okay? So it could be that ovulation comes later, or it could be that you don't ovulate at all, as well as that, what we also know is not only can, and I hate using the word stress, but, but when your emotional health is, is, is unbalanced. When there is fear and worry and anxiety in place, it will affect ovulation, but equally ovulation can in fact be the cause of the stress, the worry and the fear. So it's in effect of, um, working with this to try and get the balance. Now, as you know, I hope you know that I ...
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    18 分
  • What you needed to know before trying to get pregnant
    2022/07/13
    I ask you to imagine you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself at the point you decided to try to start or extend your family.  What would have been useful and what do you wish you had been told. I also go into detail about what  you should have been told and how my dream is that anyone who is thinking of starting or extending a family should be informed abut.  In ancient times the elder women of the village would share key information, would have cultures in place including foods believed to support fertility.  All of which has been lost to a medical model that provides no support until you are 6 months to a year down the line.  Even at that point there is no real support or advice just interventions.   Transcript Welcome to this episode of the fertility rewire podcast. And in this episode, I'm going talk about, well ask you really, what did you need to know really before you even started trying to conceive? When you first thought about starting a family, what did you really need to know then? And if you could travel back in time to when you first decided you wanted to start a family or to get pregnant this time, if you're looking at extending your family, what would you say to your former self, from what you've learned so far on this journey, what would that be? Are there certain actions you would've taken sooner? Would you have stood up to the medical staff sooner than perhaps you have, or, or perhaps you haven't? My dream is that anyone who is thinking about getting pregnant, whether their first or the next time, that they would get access to this information straight away, that you don't have to wait the six months, or one year before anything is even looked at, and then you get no answers. That you would be given access to testing and that you would have a pre trying checkup. A preconception checkup, a preconception MOT, if you like now, you can't have access to that, unless that is something that potentially you are paying for. And even then it doesn't necessarily fit into the medical health models, but you can do home testing. You can seek therapists or consultants in different areas that do testing. If you're going to do home testing and I talked last week about the stress of ovulation. So I do want to bear in mind about this potential stress that can be caused by the home testing too, because you do need someone to interpret it potentially because even with the home tests, the normal is not what we consider optimal actually for fertility. So you've heard me talk about the MIRA home testing, and to use their Max ones, where you're looking at the progesterone as well. You can use the code FERTILITYREWIRE at checkout to access a discount on the MIRA Website You can do basal body temperature yourself. So you've got an idea of what's happening in your cycle and you can use something like Ovusense, which can take the stress away from having to wake up and, and take that. If you are looking at male fertility factors and I do urge you to, from the very, very start, because all too often, I see clients where, you know, as a female you are looking at what it is wrong with you, you and generally the medical profession seems to go down that line a little bit as well. But even though you'll only get basic sperm test results from a home test, I do think it's worthwhile still looking at that. And you can use a company called ExSeed and there are others available, of course, but this is one that, that I've come across recently. You can use code FERTILITYREWIRE to get a 15% discount. And I'm hoping to do an interview actually with somebody from ExSeed soon so we can explain a little bit more about that. So you're looking at basic information for sure and what I would say in any home tests, if it's coming up as suboptimal or even outside of normal ranges, I would still urge you to take advice from elsewhere and get this looked at in more detail. Definitely. So when we're looking at home testing, you can test your hormone levels. You can test your follicle stimulating hormone now in home tests, you can test your progesterone also. You can test your estrogen and this can be in urine, or this can be with a blood test. Remember a blood test is a snapshot of that day, a urine test, you're generally looking at more regular frequency of that. So that can give you a bigger picture with those and the fluctuations, especially when it comes to progesterone. You can do home tests for thyroid and increasingly a wider panel of thyroid, and also to look for thyroid antibodies, which I've seen in quite a few clients recently. And then we have our autoimmune factors that are coming in there. So even though you wouldn't necessarily be medicated for your thyroid, you can look to natural ways to support your thyroid and to boost it because we know that an underactive thyroid, or let's not say underactive, because then we're in normal and abnormal ranges again, aren't we? A suboptimal thyroid, a thyroid that ...
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    20 分
  • When you’ll do anything to get pregnant (but not that)
    2022/06/30

    I'm often reminded of the Meatloaf song. I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that. Will we do anything in blind faith and is that wise?  What's actually needed is more thorough education of what we can do.  And the first step is becoming your own fertility detective, in a controlled and structured way, often with support to interpret your findings.

     

    So what can you look into, well if you've heard me talk before, first off luteal phase and sperm, follicular phase, strength of ovulation and lets focus in on egg and sperm health and pelvic health..


    I discuss ways to monitor progesterone and share some discount codes  (FERTILITYREWIRE)  for MIRA fertility Analyzer and Medichecks home testing

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    26 分