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“On a scale of 0-10, how would you rate your stress?” This was a question on a health intake form I recently filled out…and I was like “how am I supposed to quantify this?!” Since stress can come from so many different areas of life- work, family, finances, infertility- it can be hard to put […]

Last week I got a DM through instagram…it was so simple and yet asked a BIG question.  “So how do you help couples who are trying to get pregnant?” Let’s explore that… 1. Get Curious and be the detective Taking a thorough health intake to gain a better understanding of whether there may be hormone […]

This is a BIG question, and if the answer is “yes”, then we have a huge potential to influence fertility, especially in the year leading up to getting pregnant. After all, we have to eat, so why not make sure we’re fueling fertility at the same time? It’s really easy to get caught up in […]

Egg Quality, Aging & Supporting Fertility Egg Quality & Aging: I want to start this post off with a story… A woman, let’s call her J, contacted me online asking if I thought I could help her…she had suffered 2 miscarriages, was 37 years old, and feeling hopeless. As I always caution, “there are no […]

This week marked the first meeting of the Fertility Tapping Circle. Forty-five minutes before the meeting, I got a text from my kids’ school that the entire school was going to be closed for at least a week due to Covid outbreaks. Cool, cool, cool.  Ok so here I am supposed to run this peaceful […]

The 90 days prior to conception is a crucial time in which the human egg (ovum) progresses through its final maturation. 

As I do my final “accounting” for the year…I reflect on the triumphs, the challenges, the failures/perceived failures both in my personal life and my work.  This was a big year in my practice, with the most pregnancies and the most babies born (I’ll release our final stats and some case studies in the new […]

I know so many people who rely on OPKs to tell them when they’re ovulating… But the truth is OPKs CAN’T confirm that ovulation actually happened (and neither can your period tracking app ).  Luckily, using the tools in this post can identify if and when ovulation happened.  You might be thinking “but how does […]

If you’re trying to get pregnant (or avoid pregnancy), it helps to know exactly when you ovulate and when you’re most fertile. Remember how I said Apps can’t tell you exactly when you ovulate? (link) Well, this post is going to give you some great guidance on how to PREDICT ovulation.  Some quick facts:  The […]

Immune Boosting Elderberry Gummies Tis the season…for colds and flu. Last year was our son’s first year in school/daycare and boy did I suffer- every sniffle got me and even though I know it’s part of the process of strengthening the immune system, it was NOT fun. This year I decided to make immune boosting […]